Kim Lapin is an interior designer and decorator based out of Los Angeles. She believes that the home and our surroundings should reflect who we are, what we love, and how we want to live.
Includes ali’s work in her house tour.
“Ali Beletic, love her. She is just an amazing artist and I would have a thousand of her pieces if I could afford them.” -Kim Laplin
Paragon of Wonder invites you to explore the powerful emotions and aesthetics that arise in moments of curiosity and awe. Wonder is the sensation of encountering the unknown, the mysterious, or the extraordinary—that which takes your breath away and shifts your perspective.
Through various media, these artists capture the essence of wonder: from the vastness of nature to the mysteries of the human mind, from intricate details to expansive visions. This exhibition challenges viewers to slow down, look closely, and let the imagination roam free.
Artists featured in the show:
Ali Beletic
Laura Burke
Ethan Caflisch
Michael DeSutter
Tadahiro Gunji
Lisa Hardy
Virginie Hucher
Viktor Kobylianski
Emma Ortiz
OVSKA
Caroline Pinney
Irinka Talakhadze
Amy Wright
Jordan Wright Patterson
Micheal Harnish
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 her signature clays, sourcing untraditional pigments, botanical dyes and oils. Pointing to forms that enlight the viewer towards 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, Ali celebrates the vivid marriage and simultaneity of our shared archaic and contemporary inheritance.
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 human ancestry, lighting up a boulder strewn desert for invitees to walk through, and building a surfboard from Tule reeds.
Vibrant Design Collections
In tandem with the New Year, Ali Beletic and her studio team announced new works under the Neon Primitivism Series. The latest collection of decor showcases oversized festive sensibilities, vibrant colors, and epic scale that will certainly create a statement in any upscale luxury home or establishment. Silhotaneusly, the paintings also effortlessly juxtapose ancient and modern elements that will capture attention.
Luxe Magazine describes Ali's Neon Primitivism Series as "bringing the party" as the works celebrate a fusion of unexpected gestures with diverse materials like clays, pigments, and spray paint to create a signature glow. About the work, Jen Samson shares that "the juxtaposition of old and new really draws [her] into this subtle yet vibrant piece by Ali Beletic. There is a joyfulness about this that plays to [one's] visual senses.
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 her signature clays, sourcing untraditional pigments, botanical dyes and oils. Pointing to forms that enlight the viewer towards 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, Ali celebrates the vivid marriage and simultaneity of our shared archaic and contemporary inheritance.
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 human ancestry, lighting up a boulder strewn desert for invitees to walk through, and building a surfboard from Tule reeds.
40 Mile / Featured in AN Interior
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
72” x 86”
Ali’s work was featured in AN Interior Issue 24 announcing their annual Top 50 list of best interior architects and designers, in a home re-designed by chic designer Shannon McLaren of Prairie and architect Denise Xagorarakis of Xag Designs’ “It was also important that large blank walls be included to display the couple’s art collection, including an abstract work by Ali Beletic that hangs over the leather sectional by Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto, and Ola Rune.”
We cordially invite you to the opening of “Points for Clouds, Dreams Aroused” a design and media art group exhibition featuring a curation of pioneering artists working at the confluence of art and technology including: Film, Animation, Sculpture, Light, Generative Art, Projection, Paintings, Performance, and Time. Hosted at Future Factory the exhibition will feature three gallery rooms, a panel discussion and an afterparty in the new Future Factory venue featuring a lineup of surprise live performances. Presented by the combined forces at Projekt______, AI LA and Future Factory this will be a historic night in the LA Art + Technology scene.
About the Panel: Researchers, creatives, and founders in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) come together to talk about exciting opportunities resulting from NeRFs in the entertainment industry. Recent discussions around AI’s use in the entertainment industry has become the leading deal point in current strikes. But some subsects, led by NeRFs will enhance and empower filmmakers in ways not previously possible. This conversation will explore this topic and more. Panelists include Paul Trillo (Art Class Content), James Perlman (TurboNeRF), Fernando Rivas (Volinga AI), Wren Weichman (Corridor Digital).
Come celebrate Siggraph with a full bar and surprise performances late into the night. Sculptures will be on display and for sale in person and online via open edition NFTs Starting Aug. 10th.
“With Year of the Statement, artist Ali Beletic is cementing her place as a firm part of the new wave of female artist, singers, beatmakers and producers with her vibrant and fun, even arty celebratory beats, cinematic narratives, and hyper modern production.“
“A fusion of genres and music both traditional and futuristic” - Stere0gum
Lightning Studios is excited to announce the release of Alivenique’s debut full length album Year of the Statement. Alivenique is the new pop art music project of visual artist and producer/singer Ali Beletic. Advance album singles have been featured on NPR Music, TalkHouse, Stereogum, and Flood Music.
From the outset of her career as an artist and musician, Ali has rebelled against convention, juxtaposing editorial, personal narrative and vanguardism. For her, Year of the Statement is the blowing of the conch shell on this new project Alivenique, where she plays with a more sophisticated, developed, self-aware artistry, laying the foundation for femininity going forward, telling a global story, and bringing punk into pop-art.
Themes on Year of the Statement include womanhood and the female spirit, the new integration of the avant-garde with pop art, primitivism, ceremony, the lexus and the olive tree, power, champion, globalism, and love. However, she intends to define the space for extroverts and party-ers working with dance beats, percussion collages, and her contribution to a new neon global sound.
The record sonically traverses a lot of soundscapes, from vibrant party tracks like Cachaça and Move the Needle to loud, explosive, badass feminine tracks such as Year of the Statement and Ruins of Night, to artistic hyper pop tracks such as Vanguards and Candlelit Jungle. All with clever narratives taking us on tropical and lush journeys through time and place, nature, art, cinema and world travels. Hyper mixing modern 808’s, world percussion, catchy syncopapted 16th note defiant vocals and soaring melismas full of swagger, the sonic production literally moves from beats, stories, musique concrete, samples and reverbs that travel from jungle to the orchestra to vintage french pop sing along in a fluid motion.
Composed electronically, Ali builds beats from layers and layers of recorded and sampled percussion and pairing this with unique combinations of cinematic strings, distorted synths, and rattling 808s. She was wanting a more inclusive, extroverted sound after the intimate and desert hues of her last record, so she turned to modern production. In general, her art and music have been turning to a more pop-art perspective.
“I am working in a post-genre space, mixing all sorts of sonic palettes, and musical influences, really working with how this harmonic idea might fit over this beat, and what that juxtaposition means and how to EQ it just right to communicate different emotions to the listener. It’s super cool to be a woman bringing those different aspirations together, as so often I feel like we get a little bit relegated to singer, or poppy, which I totally identify with, I just also totally identify with songwriting, making beats, and digging deep into arranging, production and mixing techniques.”
This switch to a more pop art approach in her music mirrored a similar development in her visual art as well, where she transitioned from Earth Art installations and experiences to a more two dimensional Pop Art space, her land themes translated into clay and dye backgrounds set against eye catching neon foreground in her Neon Prmitivism painting series which as been celebrated by Vogue, Ignant, and Architectural Digest, and featured in collections across the world. Similarly, her music developed away from the more intimate, handmade scale of her first record that drew comparisons to Cat Power and Bill Callahan, where the lyrics drew on her thesis of shared human tradition and mythology, to a more extroverted, pop, electronic space, that draws these themes into the use of traditional percussion and vast cinematic sonic landscapes.
“During my time in film school, I developed this concept of the ‘Hyper Real’ - a way that filmmaking recreates the “real”, but as heightened sensual experience - this is certainly one of my inspirations sonically with the Alivenique project and the Year of the Statement record to invite the listener into a sensual experience - a hyper real. I’ve been using all the latest production techniques, to sort of go in and find a new process for both writing, but also mixing, and creating a unique listener experience. Utilizing a global sonic association/post genre palette while writing, playing on listener associations, as well as sensual sonic techniques.”
Ali mentioned “I was super inspired writing more electronically, and making beats, as I was able to bring to life music that I had sort always envisioned in my head, but isn’t possible using only the palette of guitar, piano, and vocals - which are the instruments I play,” and goes on to say “There are less female voices in the modern pop beat and production space and I thought my sense of modern femininity could not only be expressed in this part of the world, but influential and contributive.”
“As an artist, I look at the broad spectrum of people and cosmologies to influence my own worldview and the concept of our shared narrative. I believe in a citizen of the earth sort of perspective and am interested in the intersection and differences in worldviews and how that can inform us as a global society and people. So philosophically, I hold what I call a pluralist philosophy where we can employ and believe in multiple worldviews simultaneously.”
APEIRON, Exhibition centered on the energy behind creating with no limits. Apeiron, Greek for “that which is unlimited” features a diverse range of works that express the energy of life and the importance of uninhibited creativity using various mediums including paint, film and clay, exploring the interplay between chaos and calmness of ideating with no bounds.
We invite gallery guests to immerse themselves and explore works by artists Ali Beletic, Luke Chiswell, Qhamande Maswana, Petra Schott, Jessica Sellinger, and Vince Palacios.
Stop by and check out Ali’s works on view at Tappan’s new gallery on Melrose, exhibition is up April 20-June 22.
"Beletic’s Light Reflections series, following the thread of her ‘ancient meets modern experiential’ thesis, creates spectral color field environments through radiant paintings made using Ali’s signature blend of clays with vibrant pigments, harnessing the beauty of the reflection of incident light on a vibrant palette, paired with the absorption of light utilizing her signature clay material."
Ali says about the work, “Something so matte and of the earth, but reflecting light at such a high refraction rate - it’s not like it’s a mirrored polished glass - it has a truly gorgeous sensual serenity. It sort of has a similar effect to a reflection pool, or the metallic reflections of the ocean at sunset, but it is earth and this super vibrant shocking color.”
Featured in Luxe Magazine
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.
Featured in Surface Magazine and Socal Magazine.
The opening exhibition, cheekily titled “Offline,” features paintings, sculptures, and textile art by the likes of Fei Li, Firoozeh Neman, Ali Beletic, and more artists whose work plays with materiality and texture. Ever the digital natives, QR codes accompany each exhibited piece to allow potential collectors to learn more about the artwork and the person behind it.
—Jenna Adrian-Diaz
Invocation for Rain
Speaker, Rainwater, Clay
Featured in Architectural Digest and Glamour Magazine. Attenzione, was recently featured in Architectural Digest, Gotham NY and Glamour as part of Olivia Kim’s New York pop-in ‘Moma Store-like’ curatorial.
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.
Featured in Vogue and Architectural Digest.
The colorful explosion of modern neon colors and primitive forms in Neon Primitivism is a natural extension of both Ali’s primitivist ideology and her commitment to rock n roll. 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 with earthy clays, and vibrant charcoals 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.
VISUAL ARTIST ALI BELETIC GIVES BIRTH TO NEW BRAINCHILD ALIVENIQUE
Alivenique is the new conceptual brainchild of the musical and visual artist Ali Beletic. Self-described as a “meta-pop-art musical project”, it delves into her unique take on artistic vanguardism, hyper mixing a vast sonic and visual sensual assualt, digging into cinematic narratives alongside post-genre feminine meme able moments, yet deeply underneath translating a pluralist sincerist invitation. Read the Full Story here.
Thanks Helena Evans, for the writeup on the new single Cachaça over at She Makes Music.
“‘Cachaça’ bridges Alivenique’s passion for a late night party, and her sense of wanderlust we heard in her debut record Legends under her own name, only more extroverted and sonically standing you on your ear.
An emergence song, she writes reflecting on maximalist party, the lushness of being who you are. It’s her “tropicalism as a philosophy” and “Party of Ceremony” thesis she throws around, “I love to throw parties and ‘Cachaça’ has musical connections with some of my ideal party components – tropical plants, magical night time vibes, canoes with torches going up and down the river, and a festive dance spirit filling the night. I know it sounds silly, but I’m totally serious.”
Musically the song features an artistic summer blend of world percussion with synth and modern drum sounds, while the catchy syncopated vocals pave the way the entire time.”
Read the whole story here.
Special thanks to editor Annie Fell for having my new Essay over at Talkhouse discussing feminine transcendentalism, a cubist perspective in music and the backstory on my single “Vanguards”. Check it out over at Talkhouse.
Very Excited to announce my first solo show in Mexico, with the lovely team En Blanco.
Parallels opens May 5 and is on view through June.
Conceptual and visual artist Ali Beletic produces sculpture, environmental works and paintings in conversation with art as a representation for us to experience, dialogue and celebrate our shared, pluralist and global lineages of humanity. Utilizing the canvas and context of the art world to create an atmosphere and spirit where we can broadly dialogue between a more modern “self-aware” and informed version of ourselves, and a deeper more latent archaic sense of humanity that is intertwined with the natural world. This juxtaposition recalls, what Charles Olsen dubbed the “Archaic Post-Modern”. Naturally, this leads her to mixed use of materials, juxtaposing clays with spraypaints, soapstone and fire with brass, and turning her gestural abstraction toward modern subjects. In addition, her practice leaves nothing sacred to be unexplored and throws lineages of art in juxtaposition, reflecting her pluralist philosophy: ancient, pop, abstract expressionism, current cultural movements, and even throwing parties to be thrown in conversation with one another, just as vast and broad as we are today.
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.
Under the moniker Alivenique, Ali Beletic makes futuristic, vibrant music that falls somewhere between the sounds of L'Rain, Yeasayer, and Tune-Yards. Her latest single “Year of the Statement” is built upon syncopated rhythms and soaring vocals— with a splash of hyperpop. Bubbling synths rest atop driving percussion, with Beletic blearily belting a powerful hook. “La revolución del arte,” she sings on the chorus, her voice drenched in warm distortion. The track serves as a rallying cry, and finds Beletic embracing her raucous femininity.
“This song is dedicated to the dreamers, the provocateurs,” Beletic says of the track. “It’s not about a medium, it’s about a spirit, a trickster. It’s about taking matters into your own hands and being provocative, but through action and change, rather than philosophical means. In a way it’s a call to action for my fellow artists, writers, creatives; it’s about not conforming ourselves. It’s a very self-empowered song; it’s about using your own hands to create what you want. Not using verbiage, and the beat reflects that. I produced it to riff on a super modern, badass, celebrational, and ultrafeminine sense of power.”
“Year of the Statement” hits streaming services today and precedes the album of the same name, which is due September 22 on Lightning Studios.
