Ali Beletic March Preview
Post Recent
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
48” x 36”
Casa Naturaleza
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
70” x 70”
Field Icons
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
36” x 49”
It’s On
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
50” x 62”
Night Plumage
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
36” x 49”
Run Among the Thunder
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
86” x 72”
Featured in Style Icon Fashion Editor Eva Chen’s new home in Architectural Digest.
"My family will be celebrating the holidays from our new weekend house for the first time this winter. We designed the space (with the marvelous Hendricks Churchill) to be a respite from NYC. As such, we were immediately drawn to soothing abstract art. Ali Beletic's serene but joyful work is a foundation for the aesthetic in our house. " - Eva Chen
Night Out
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
72” x 50”
Jet, Jet
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
72” x 50”
We Set Out at Dawn
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
72” x 60”
Travel Sport
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
60” x 50”
“Party Wave”, “Rain” and “Form #1”
Original Textile, Clay Painting and Neon Work by Ali
Ali’s work across multiple mediums has always been founded conceptually in both her nature and survival skills studies as well as her ‘bringing the party and the fun’. It is here that Ali’s conceptual work led naturally to the crossover that would lead her to explore paintings based on sensuality and dimension - the feeling, the experience and the space they create. It was here that she derived the process of working with clays, dried plant materials, botanical dyes, and paints made of finely crushed rare minerals and gems, to explore glowing mattes and chalky earthy textures. This follows in the tradition of her prior sculptural work (almost an artistic take on experimental archeology) which traces primitive technologies, and works with the experiential and the sensual - i.e. hand building mahogany and glass rain catchments, working with fire as a sculptural element, exploring artifact creation using primitive tools and techniques as a means to explore primitivism, lighting up a boulder strewn desert for invitees to walk through, and even building a surfboard from Tule reeds.
When in Rome
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
60” x 40”
Make Waves
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
40” x 60”
In Brazil Part 2
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
36” x 60”
Future Trend
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
91” x 62”
Ali’s work has been featured as part of Maya Erskine’s curatorial and in Vogue’s curatorial next to Judy Chicago, penned by the brilliant Arden Fanning Andrews & guest curator Tamara Johnson.
“When I saw how Tappan Collective chooses guest curators to put together collections of works, I obviously was drawn to Maya Erskine’s picks,” says Johnson of the Pen15 creator-producer-actor’s selects, including Alexis Arnold’s sold-out Crystallized Books series and Ali Beletic’s Material and the Sensual painting.
Materialism and The Sensual II
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
60” x 48”
Still Punk
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
50” x 40”
Beletic’s Neon Primitivism series is a natural extension of the artist’s commitment to primitivist ideology and ‘bringing the party and the fun’. This new series celebrates the canvas and painting as a form with the power to transfer primitivism, sensuality and emotion to a space in a modern return to Ab Ex style, mixing the ultra mattes of Mexican folk art by sourcing untraditional pigments and incorporating clays, botanical dyes and oils, and pointing to forms that enlight the viewer towards the multiple directions of cave paintings, the new york school, ceremonial body paints, line work, weathered artifacts, Charles Olsen’s Archaic Post Modern and pop art, celebrating the marriage of archaic and contemporary tradition, sensuality and artistic expression.
Young and Punk in Paris
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
36” x 49”
Never a Dull Moment
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
72” x 86”
Her directness of emotion communicated through primal, rugged gestures, juxtaposed with an integration of ancient philosophies explores the thin line between symbolic totems, anthropomorphic figuration, gestural abstraction and a modern pop sensibility. Her confident and rule shattering sensibility pulls on us to be 21st century rebels once again and to seek wildness, experience, humanity, and mythos.