Neon Works (for the Vanguards to take home with them)

Ali Beletic’s Neon Works (For the Vanguards to Take Home with Them) were recently in Architectural Digest, Gotham NY and featured in both curator Olivia Kim’s curatorial as well as the curator of Sized Gallery Alexander May’s curatorial.

Conceptual cues from journalism, vanguardism, mythology, and primitivism are layered within this body of work. Each sculpture expands on themes from Beletic’s “Neon Primitivism” series, in which she juxtaposed symbolism from ancient cultures with features of modern art and music. The new neon pieces serve as punk, pop art gestures, lighting up rooms and demanding attention. Beletic fittingly titled the series “Neon Works (for the Vanguards to take home with them),” hoping the sculptures will define space for extroverts and partiers.

Parallels opens May 5 and is on view through June.

Naturally due to her subject matter, her work grapples with the imminent desire to hold on to the beauty of our ancient selves and values, while also discussing how we can move forward, employing modern sensibilities, techniques and technologies, and intends to allow that conversation to celebrate both intelligences and allow them to be in discussion.

Her installation light environments, more subtle and peaceful, have been time based, and intend, to entice the audience into a stream of conscious peace of mind state, allowing the sense of space to expand to the reaches of the stars, from day into night and the vastness of the landscape around them, the clouds that send rain to earth, reflecting the vastness of space and light and perception and the boundaries of ourselves.

***Our Future is Primitive II***
Neon and plexi | 72” x 10.5”

Now!
Neon and plexi | 18” x 22”

Ali Beletic’s Neon Works (For the Vanguards to Take Home with Them) were recently featured in Curator of Sized Gallery in LA’s curatorial. Ali’s work Soapstone Fire Bowl was recently featured in his LA Frieze week exhibition “Vessels” celebrated by fair director Christine Messineo, as well as in Cultured Mag, Wallpaper and Interior Design Mag as shows not to miss during LA’s art week.

***Attenzione***
Neon and plexi | 18” x 22”

Attenzione, was recently featured in Architectural Digest, Gotham NY and Glamour as part of Olivia Kim’s New York pop-in ‘Moma Store-likke’ curatorial.