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View Larger Image and Additional Photos of Yasmin P. KarimAbout Yasmin P. Karim : Yasmin P. Karim born in Arusha, Tanzania with the backdrop of Mt Meru and distant Mt Kilimanjaro, now lives and works in the backdrop of Grouse Mountain and distant Whistler Mountain, Canada.
She is a communication designer, non-narrative experimental director and animator who has been actively making and exhibiting art for sixteen years. Her filmography includes short film My Mountain, 7 Cycles, Zarra and the Alberta Media Production Industries Association, AMPIA award winning SIJJIL and OPPO.
Yasmin inspires audiences with her organic process using the principles of nature.
Her approach combines the physical science and spiritual science together with opposites states such as living and inanimate, beauty with tention, colour as light and texture with movement to create abstract symbolic art.
Yasmin P. Karim considers design a chance to manifest essence into form, an opportunity to create new functional objects that can enhance, improve and open new possibilities of awareness, exploration, and discovery. Design in the context of print is visual poetry of words, form, perceptual values and aesthetic beauty that combine elements to bold elegant layouts, typography, photographs, illustrations and colour to bring together pattern and meaning.
Art to her is a means of expressing spiritual values, insights and building new connections. A relationship between the visual medium and the viewer.
She is inspired by the potential of human soul, and the capacity of art and design to create wonder and awareness.
Nature is the frame wrok of her design and the the starting point to search, explore and understand the moving patterns, beauty of symmetry and asymmetry composition, harmony and rhythem of colours, texture and space. How can words end up as light? How can an inanimate object, a design or a painting, transform into light?
Her current work is about balance based on symbolism within abstractism which is explored with colour, light, and textures, based on the search of “What is Soul” and how the physical and spiritual science are connected together to complete the circle of manifestation, unfolding and enfolding new beginningless and endless possibilities of ideas, new knowledge, and universal meaning.
ORGANIZATION:
Ba Production
NON-DESIGN OCCUPATION:
Post-secondary education teacher natural and life sciences Education, research, training
EDUCATION:
2007-Ongoing, Professional Development, Workshops, Presentations, International
2009, Digital/Communication Design, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver/Canada
2003, Teaching Diversity “ Cross-Cultural Understanding”, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle/USA
EXPERIENCE:
2007 - Present, Artist / Animator / Communication Designer, Ba Productions, Vancouver/Canada
2014, Curator, “Change - Contemporary Ismaili Muslim Art ”, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey/Canada
2011, Curator, “Waves of Light - Contemporary Ismaili Art”, Pendulum Gallery HSBC Building, Vancouver/Canada
2003, Director, “The Silk Route Roots” Shifa Theatre, AHM, Vancouver/Canada
PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS:
1999, "7 Cycles", Medicine Hat Cultural Centre Gallery,
Medicine Hat/Canada
MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
2018, "Jubilee Arts" Film Festivals, Metro Vancouver / Canada
2007, "SFU, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, An Evening of Art, Poetry and Music" Centre A, Vancouver / Canada
2006, “Seeker, Sentry, Sage: Shades of Islam in Contemporary Art”, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria/Canada
1997, "Tradition Transformed" Triangle Gallery, Calgary/Canada
AWARDS:
1998, Best Director, OPPO, AMPIA Rosie Award, Calgary/Canada
1996, Best Animation, Sijjil , AMPIA Rosie Award, Calgary/Canada
1994, Bronze, Al-Hamdu li’llah Posters, Summit International Awards, Portland/USA
PRESS APPEARANCES:
http://ampia.org/wp/downloads/rosieWinners.pdf
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
2010, "Vancouver 2010: Art Legacy or Art Crash" Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics, Editor Nancy S. Love, Mark Mattern,
Calgary/Canada, 1438449127, 9781438449128
BOOKS:
1992, "Soul", 16 Pages, Musawwir Design Resources, Vancouver/Canada
2018, "A Bridge Between Two Epochs" 156 Pages, BA Production, Rashida Noormohamed-Hunzai, Vancouver/Canada, ISBN9780994769008
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
English, Advance
Swahili, Native
Kachi, Native
Urdu, Beginner
COMPUTER LITERACY:
Adobe CS 6 InDesign & Photoshop, Expert
SYMPOSIUMS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES::
2016, "Spiritual Science", ISWLS, Austin/USA
MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS:
2002 Ongoing Women in Film & Video, Vancouver/Canada
COLLECTIONS:
2006, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria / Canada
HOBBIES:
Downhill Skiing, Educational TV, Nature Hikes, Swimming
REGISTRATION DATE:
2017-02-28 21:47:39
COUNTRY/REGION:
Canada
ACCOUNT TYPE:
Professional
Runner-Up status designs by Yasmin P. Karim
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A Bridge Between Two Epochs Art Book-Equality of Women Runner-Up for Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Category in 2016 Yasmin P. Karim for Ba Production |
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