Artist Statement
My work is shaped by changing environments, experiences, and materials. Over the course of five decades, I have worked across sculpture, drawing, portraiture, and painting, responding to the world around me rather than a single subject or style. I have long been interested in the space between observation and interpretation—how experience, time, and material shape what we see and understand.

About the Artist

Jami Nix Rahn is a multidisciplinary artist whose career spans nearly five decades and several continents. Working across sculpture, drawing, and painting, her practice has continually evolved in response to place, experience, and material exploration.

Raised in a military family, Rahn developed an early awareness of movement, change, and the varied environments that would later shape her artistic life. Her professional training began in Portugal through apprenticeships in stone carving and bronze casting, where she developed a deep engagement with material and form. Influenced by artists such as Giacometti, Rodin, and Henry Moore, she continued her work while living in Geneva, Switzerland, and São Paulo, Brazil.

After returning to the United States, Rahn studied portraiture in oil and pastel with Daniel E. Greene and furthered her education at the Art Students League in New York. She earned her BFA in painting at Florida Atlantic University. Throughout her career, she has moved fluidly between representation and abstraction, allowing each body of work to develop according to its own concerns rather than a fixed style or subject.

Since relocating to Colorado, the landscape has become an important focus of her recent work. Using layers of oil and cold wax, Rahn explores the changing conditions of light, atmosphere, weather, and memory. Her paintings are less concerned with depicting a specific location than with conveying the experience of being present within it.

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