STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

My strongest motivation for creating art is a desire to communicate with people. I need to visually express my ideas, feelings and emotions. It is exciting and dearly satisfying for me to transform my deep insight and feelings into an. object. For doing that I use variety of clay technique like hand-building, wheel-throwing and so on. I am interested in Conceptual Art and I prefer to install my ceramics art works with using different materials which are water, sand, wood, glass, stone, etc. and create my own atmosphere in the space to express my feelings. I am concerned with the visible rich and intense details of nature and the specific nuances, which are often overlooked or unnoticed when observing things in nature. Specifically, I rely on the seductiveness of the earth, sky, and water and form itself. Thin, frailness, curves, waves and soft movements are all important for my work because it shows my personality. Therefore, I mold clay into softly curving organic forms. Also people can find them on my work between interior and exterior, negative and positive relationships which you can see everywhere in the world. Negative and positive plane and volume seem to me to be the laws of life and beauty.

The imagery and the palette are derived from the natural world. Subtle, satin hues that mimic colors of the forest and the sea recreated with delicate glazes on the shaped stoneware and porcelain. Natural looking glaze is also very important on my work because it works to be a supplement of clay through my ideas as an expression of nature and human being. Much of my inspiration for my ideas comes from the clay itself, particularly porcelain. It is a pure translucent material, which is difficult to work with but sensuous and powerful. My work moves between both sensual and lyrical feelings for nature on the one hand, and a tragic awareness of the decline and fall of cultures on the other. People have moved so far away from nature. In my own way, I want to protest against the destruction of the environment and nuclear menace and call attention to the fact that people belong to nature.

SELECETED EXHIBITIONS

International Group Exhibition at the National Arts Club, NYC, USA in 2006  

International Group Exhibition at the Academy Mansion, NYC, USA in 2003

Participated group exhibition at the Nihonbashi Art Gallery ,Tokyo, Japan, in 1997               

Participated in the multi-media group exhibition at the Cetin Emec Gallery, Izmir, Turkey 1995

Participated in “Limits and Beyond” mix media group exhibition held by UNESCO International Association of Art, National Turkish Art Committee at the Tuyap Exhibition Center Istanbul, Turkey in 1995

Curated & Participated in group exhibition, mixed media Installation created by me about “PEACE & WAR, protesting Journalist Ugur Mumcu’s murdered 24 January 1993” Cetin Emec Gallery, Izmir, Turkey in 1995                         

Participated in group ceramics exhibition “From 70’s till today’s Turkish Ceramic Artists” held by National Ceramics Art Association at the Istanbul Destek Reasurans Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey in 1995

Participated in International “Fax Art” group exhibition at Heidelberg Castle in Heidelberg, Germany in 1994

Solo exhibition of Ceramic Sculpture Installation named “Nature” at the Santiye MD Gallery, Izmir, Turkey in 1994      

Participated group exhibition at the Painting and Sculpture Museum, Izmir, Turkey in 1993

Participated in the “Modern Turkish Ceramics” exhibition held by NCECA, International Academy of Ceramics Committee in the Painting and Sculpture Museum, Istanbul, Turkey in 1992

Participated group exhibition held for “Yunus Emre, Love Year” at the Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey in 1991

Presented solo exhibition at 80 Washington Square East Galleries, NYU, West Village, NYC, in 1990                                                       

Participated group exhibition at Azuma Gallery in SoHo, NYC, USA in 1989                        

Participated group exhibition in New York University Gallery in SoHo, NYC, USA in 1988