Artists Statement
“Through layered surfaces and gestural marks, my work echoes the slow changes found in nature, inviting viewers to sense the subtle rhythms shaping the natural world.”
About the Artist
Jami Nix Rahn creates beyond genre boundaries, navigating multiple media and styles with a cohesive artistic voice — from the precision of hyper-realism to the chaos of abstraction—always on her own terms. Raised in a military family, Rahn developed a profound sensitivity to place, identity, and transformation. Her artistic journey began in Europe, where she apprenticed in stone carving and bronze casting in Portugal. Influenced by Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Rodin, and Henry Moore, these experiences shaped her approach to form, space, and art's dynamic capacity. She continued her practice in Geneva, Switzerland, and São Paulo, Brazil, before returning to the U.S.
In New York, Rahn pursued portraiture in pastel and oil with Daniel E. Greene, PSA, NA, AWS, and furthered her training at the Art Students League of New York City under Richard C. Pionk and John Hultberg. Relocating to South Florida in the early 2000s, Jami Nix Rahn’s work responded to the rise of Art Basel Miami Beach and Wynwood’s vibrant urban art scene, resulting in hyper-realistic paintings marked by bold color and street-driven energy.
Rahn earned her BFA in painting from Florida Atlantic University, where she received the David and Alfrede Myerson Achievement Award in Fine Arts and the Arts and Letters Scholarship.
Since 2020, Jami Nix Rahn has made Colorado’s Vail Valley her home, drawing the scale and atmosphere of the Rockies into her oil and cold wax paintings. Her layered surfaces—seen in series like Fragile Nature and Echoes of Time—explore the tension between transience and permanence in the natural world.
Exhibited nationally and internationally, her paintings are in public and private collections worldwide.