SAMEENA M. KARIM
Sameena M. Karim graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts of Chittagong University in 1994. She has participated in more than ten exhibitions both group and solo at home and abroad. She has been running an art gallery named ‘Mrinmoy Art Gallery’ since 1998. She conducts courses on Graphic Arts and Sculpture in different universities in Chattogram, such as CUET and Premier University. She has received many awards from different institutions as recognition for her works. Sameena’s recent art exhibitions were 17th Asian Art Biennale 2016, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka; Birla Academy, 2017, Kolkata; and National Sculpture Exhibition 2018, Shilpokola Academy, Dhaka. From 2005 to 2011, Sameena M. Karim has also worked in different national and international organizations as an executive and interior designer. She is currently holding the post of the Director of Emkay Enterprise, the Founder of Mrinmoy Art Gallery, Chittagong, and Associate Professor of Premier University, Chattogram.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
It is amazing that I am using clay, which you do not get messy with while you work. But first thing is the volume, the mass you feel to bring out your form using your spatula and knife and your hands! It is sheer brilliance that you work out with rough form and from there you evolve design or form you intend to give birth to! When you are satisfied with form, doing final touch by bringing texture or roughness on the surfaces of the forms, you need to let them dry giving a few days. If you use mould of different metals or use colour effects if you need to and put into the kiln, you do so. Yes, I do various lumps of clay for a series of texturing for sculpts. One in this series, also in the making, is called ‘Shopneel Mrinmoy’. These textures can be amplified or reduced by using a heavier or lighter touch by using different thin and pointy tools depending on the effect you need.
Sameena M karim
