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Artist's Statement
My approach to painting derives from the consequences and possibilities of colours living side by side each other. I enjoy submerging in the surprise and play they offer as they are let loose from their tubes and containers, sometimes in pure splashes, sometimes mixed and worked, to take on new life on the canvas or board with imaginative flashes of brush or finger or knife. Everything depends on this relationship of colours; it is the primary joy of the visual art. Forms and patterns, contours and later delineations are conjured from their essential, vivid appearance and radiation.
A harmony, or skilful balance, then becomes of the utmost concern. Without playing colours against each other wisely, or by ignoring a colour’s own implicit array of sympathies and antipathies, the impact of colours moving emotionally across, into, and through each other, is diminished. A painter in love with colour delights in the freedom of paint like a child, and succeeds through innocence; but, listening to colours, the painter deploys them according to their secret desires, and succeeds through the affectionate and intelligent care of the gardener.
Ultimately, these colours grow to support a larger, a grander conversation of forms and patterns. I seek the emergence of bounded worlds that should glow with a simple, musical incandescence. I try to catch a glimpse of ecstatic magic through often benevolent commonplace objects, images, and animals set amid rough-hewn landscapes. This is where a person’s heart resonates warmly, unburdened, but open to the dreaming rhythms that escape our more complicated and self-obsessed habits.
A harmony, or skilful balance, then becomes of the utmost concern. Without playing colours against each other wisely, or by ignoring a colour’s own implicit array of sympathies and antipathies, the impact of colours moving emotionally across, into, and through each other, is diminished. A painter in love with colour delights in the freedom of paint like a child, and succeeds through innocence; but, listening to colours, the painter deploys them according to their secret desires, and succeeds through the affectionate and intelligent care of the gardener.
Ultimately, these colours grow to support a larger, a grander conversation of forms and patterns. I seek the emergence of bounded worlds that should glow with a simple, musical incandescence. I try to catch a glimpse of ecstatic magic through often benevolent commonplace objects, images, and animals set amid rough-hewn landscapes. This is where a person’s heart resonates warmly, unburdened, but open to the dreaming rhythms that escape our more complicated and self-obsessed habits.
Biography
Pelin was born in 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey, where she studied at Marmara University, with painter Nevhiz Tanyeli, earning her Bachelor of Art Education degree (in Painting & Art Education); and at Istanbul Technical University, with photographer and artist Ahmet Keskin, earning her Master of Fine Arts degree (in Painting, and Visual & Environmental Arts).
Pelin has developed a great deal of experience in the profession of art education, particularly with children. She has taught at institutions and workshops in Turkey and North America, and has exhibited there many times, including exhibitions at the Turkish American Association for Cultural Exchange (Chicago, 1999); the 20th Annual Festival of the Federation of Turkish American Associations (New York, 2001); the Middfest International Festival (Middletown, Ohio, 2000); and at the Fête culturelle familiale: Turquie (Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, 2007).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Fête culturelle familiale: Turquie : Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec
2007 “Songs of Spring”: Galerie V, Montreal
2002 Dara Tribal Village Ethnic Art Gallery, Chicago
2001 “New Paintings”: 20th Annual Festival, Federation of Turkish American Associations, New York
1998 “Cats of Istanbul”: Truman College, Chicago
1996 “Abstract Woman Images”: Sefhaathane Café Gallery, Istanbul
1995 “Thoughts On Degas”: Taskisla Gallery, Istanbul Technical University
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 “2008 Art Show”: Foreign Service Community Association, Ottawa
2008 “Trois Pinceaux D’Orient”: Festival Accès Asie, Montreal
2007 “Four Women, Four Cultures, One World”: Galerie MosaikArt, Montreal
2006 “Collection Of Local Artists”: Galerie V, Montreal
2006 “Paysages”: Galerie Donati, Montreal
2006 Juried Spring Show, The Arts Club, Montreal
2001-02 Oak Park Art League Remembrance Show, Oak Park, IL.
2000 Middfest International Festival, Middletown, OH.
1999 Turkish American Association For Cultural Exchange, University of Chicago
1999 New Content Gallery, Chicago
1999 Around-The-Coyote Festival, Chicago
1998 Las Manos Gallery, Chicago
Pelin has developed a great deal of experience in the profession of art education, particularly with children. She has taught at institutions and workshops in Turkey and North America, and has exhibited there many times, including exhibitions at the Turkish American Association for Cultural Exchange (Chicago, 1999); the 20th Annual Festival of the Federation of Turkish American Associations (New York, 2001); the Middfest International Festival (Middletown, Ohio, 2000); and at the Fête culturelle familiale: Turquie (Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, 2007).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Fête culturelle familiale: Turquie : Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec
2007 “Songs of Spring”: Galerie V, Montreal
2002 Dara Tribal Village Ethnic Art Gallery, Chicago
2001 “New Paintings”: 20th Annual Festival, Federation of Turkish American Associations, New York
1998 “Cats of Istanbul”: Truman College, Chicago
1996 “Abstract Woman Images”: Sefhaathane Café Gallery, Istanbul
1995 “Thoughts On Degas”: Taskisla Gallery, Istanbul Technical University
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 “2008 Art Show”: Foreign Service Community Association, Ottawa
2008 “Trois Pinceaux D’Orient”: Festival Accès Asie, Montreal
2007 “Four Women, Four Cultures, One World”: Galerie MosaikArt, Montreal
2006 “Collection Of Local Artists”: Galerie V, Montreal
2006 “Paysages”: Galerie Donati, Montreal
2006 Juried Spring Show, The Arts Club, Montreal
2001-02 Oak Park Art League Remembrance Show, Oak Park, IL.
2000 Middfest International Festival, Middletown, OH.
1999 Turkish American Association For Cultural Exchange, University of Chicago
1999 New Content Gallery, Chicago
1999 Around-The-Coyote Festival, Chicago
1998 Las Manos Gallery, Chicago