Tulay Cakir
Portals of Perception
March 23 - April 13, 2010
Reception:
Thursday March 25, 2010 6-8 PM
Press Release
Each canvas by Turkish artist Tulay Cakir offers viewers an enigma in its mixture of digital printing and acrylic paints. These contrasting media create layers in her works, overlapping and pushing against each other, allowing us to take their respective forms and movements into account while observing the larger composition. Cakir highlights inherent contrast between her materials – one flat and matted, the other glossy and embossed – playing the two off each other with magnificent results. Her stylized and expressive mode moves between abstraction and figurative images, enriched by her background and work as a sculptor, to produce constantly intriguing results.
Certain works adhere to an aesthetic of rhythmic, geometric shapes and broiling, swooping acrylic forms. Elsewhere, Cakir creates narratives in which figurative characters compete. Like the materials from which they are crafted, her players seem embroiled in some primordial rivalry. Whether figurative or abstract, Tulay Cakir’s images gain in texture and complexity from being structured around evenly matched opposing characteristics: smooth and gritty, colorful and dark, strong and gentle, anthropomorphic and abstract. By heightening these conflicts, each piece offers new solutions.
Artist Statement
My artistic abilities and desires were discovered by my teachers and my father, who helped me grow up with the dream of becoming an artist, which was also his dream for me. My art was greatly affected by the death of my father. Beyond this, I want to inspire human minds and encourage inquiry about the important questions; the meaning of life, space and mass, existence and non-existence, life and death. In my digital art, I use color to create storms in human souls, encouraging both realization of emotions and awareness of the world. Marcel Duchamps, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore have affected my art life, but ultimately, all my works are dedicated to my father's memory.
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