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.