Artist Statement
My work explores the shifting conditions of landscape — not as a fixed view, but as a lived, perceptual experience. Through layered applications of oil and cold wax, I am interested in how light, weather, and memory alter what is seen, and how painting can hold those moments of transition.

About the Artist

Jami Nix Rahn is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores perception, atmosphere, and the shifting conditions of landscape. Moving between abstraction and representation, her paintings are not depictions of place, but responses to the experience of being within it—where light, memory, and material converge.

Raised in a military family, Rahn developed an early sensitivity to change, environment, and the instability of place. Her artistic training began in Europe through apprenticeships in stone carving and bronze casting in Portugal, where she engaged directly with material and form. Influenced by artists such as Giacometti, Rodin, and Henry Moore, she continued her practice in Geneva, Switzerland, and São Paulo, Brazil, before returning to the United States.

In New York, Rahn studied portraiture in pastel and oil with Daniel E. Greene and furthered her training at the Art Students League. Her time in South Florida, during the rise of Art Basel Miami Beach, marked a pivotal shift in her work—expanding from observation toward a more fluid and interpretive visual language.

Now based in the Vail Valley, Rahn’s current body of work centers on an ongoing investigation into landscape as a perceptual condition rather than a fixed image. Through layered applications of oil and cold wax, her paintings evoke moments of transition—light dissolving form, weather obscuring structure, and time altering what is seen and remembered.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in public and private collections.