ALI
oil paintings
pastel
digital
sketches
ARTIST STATEMENT
A turkish romantic at heart with New York sensibilities, I aim to explore campy symbolist worlds made of excessive colors that contrast and highlight the themes of queer abjection and despondency of existence .The images , made with pastels or oils, usually want to be decadent in all the right wrong ways ; figuratively contemplative of the parts of humanity that are shamefully indulgent and vulnerable in both the material and emotional sense.
EXHIBITIONS
Art Exhibition: Location as Character, Chelsea Gallery: New York, 2019
SVA Senior Exhibition, Chelsea Gallery: New York. 2020
Society of Illustrators Online Gallery: 2020, 2021
Ooga Booga Exhibition: House of Ozuna: Miami. 2021
Seni Seviyorum Kuzucuk Sergisi, Usta Atölye: Istanbul. 2022