Exhibition during Frieze week in LA

We are thrilled to announce, Ali will have a sculpture work from her series Modern Objects for Primitive Living in the upcoming Frieze week LA show “Vessels” at the Sized Gallery space in Hollywood.

The show is recommended as What Not to Miss around Frieze Week Los Angeles 2022, by Frieze Fair Director Christine Messineo.

On View February 16th - 27th // 526 N Western Ave, Los Angeles, 90004 // Come out LA!!!!! RSVP HERE.

If you’d like to purchase the work, you can shop it at Sized.

Artists include: 1000 Incorporated, Addison Wolseley, Ali Beletic, Alma Allen, Amelia Stevens, André Thuret, Antonio Forteleoni, Ashley Martin, Ashwini Bhat, Avi Kovacevich, Base 10, Ben Medansky, Blum & Poe, Brett Robinson, Cat Snodgrass, Charlotte Perriand, Chic by Accident, Chris Fusaro, Chris Miller, Chris Wolston, Christian Vargas, Christopher Al-Jumah, Claudia Girbau, Clive Sithole, Comme de Garçons, Commune Design, D.I.M., Dana Arbib, David Cressey, DEN, Dinna Satti, Disciplina Studio, Donna Green, Eddie Olin, Ei Arakawa, Elliot Bergman, Emmanuel Olunkwa, Emmanuel Röhss, Eric Oglander, Ethan Caflisch, Fai Khadra, Formative Modern, Gaetano Pesce, Giovanni Leonardo Bassan, Grace Prince, h.e.m. Casa at Lee Stanton, Heven Glass, Hostler & Burrows, Hot Cactus, Illya Goldman Gubin, Isamu Noguchi. J.M. Szymanski, Jean Boris Lacroix, Jean Luce, Jeff Martin, JF Chen, Jim McDowell, Jonny Ribeiro, Joseph Massé, Jude Pauli, Kati Tuominen-niittylä, Kazunori Hamana, Kelly Wearstler, Kevin Stalh, Kit Howland. Klaus Jürgen Schmidt, Kwangho Lee, Leena Similu, Lianne Barnes, Logan Wannamaker, LS Gomma, Lukas Stoever, Marc Leschelier, Marta Gallery, Massimiliano Locatelli, Matty Fisher, Max Lamb, Minjae Kim, Nevine Mahmoud, NFS, Nick Gianetti, Nonaka-Hill, Overduin & co, Pablo Picasso, Philippe Malouin, RA Workshop - Rich Aybar, Radford Gallery, Ravi GuneWardena, Reinaldo Sanguino, Rick Owens Furniture, RIO Estudio. Roger Herman, Rooms Studio, Salon 94 Design, Scarlett Rouge, Seth Rogen, Shane Gabier, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Shozo Michikawa, Shun Kinoshita, Skylar Haskard, Sonja Duò-Meyer, Studio Balestra, Studio IMA, Studio Jake Arnold, Studio Paolini, Sumner, Susan for Susan, The Tappan Collective, The Art Reporter, The Future Perfect, The Tropics, The Window. Thomas Barger, Tienda X, Tino Seubert, TIWA Select, Tory J. Lowitz, Ulysses Desanti, Vanessa Beecroft, Walter Mingledorff

Alivenique Debut on Teasers and Dares

Alivenique X Crush Club

The new Alivenique x Crush Club “Tune In” celebrated on Teasers and Dares, next to Lou Hater, Confidence Man, and Baltra. Couldn’t be more stoked and honored!

Alivenique makes her debut on T&D and we found her thanks to Crush Club who we have featured a heap of times. ‘Tune In’ is a chugging banger on the Crush Club rework with flashes of uplifting tropical house too. Alivenique’s album ‘Year of the Statement’ will arrive next year.

Ali Beletic’s Materialism and the Sensual next to Iconic Shepard Fairey in Laguna

Ali Beletic’s painting Materialism and the Sensual, alongside work by Shepard Fairey and other eclectic and iconic artists.

Art Wise curator for Hotel Laguna selected Ali’s work Materialism and the Sensual, for a festive and fun art room. We can’t wait to stop by and have a negroni and check out the art books.

Crush Club Remix of Alivenique Track

Couldn’t be more honored to have the party starting duo Crush Club (TC Milan and Le Chev) collaborate with me on re-imagining my track Tune In. It’s the perfect “Party as Ceremony” kick off to the end of the year, and getting ready for my upcoming record Year of the Statement, coming out next year. Completely stoked and floored — PS it’s the perfect BPM, and you should definitely add it to your new years playlist!!

Eva Chen Curatorial and thoughts on Neon Primitivism

Honored to be included in the smart and festive Eva Chen’s curatorial over at Tappan. Read more below and follow the link to shop the new paintings.

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Eva Chen says

"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—and similarly serves as my inspiration for this curation. "

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VINYL ; LEGENDS OF THESE LANDS LEFT TO LIVE

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NPR ALBUM REVIEW

"..It was there, in one of North America's hottest places, that Beletic communed with the wild, mystical beast of rock 'n' roll, communing with its spirits and, amidst a trail of bleached skeletons, found stories that needed telling...."

Vinyl for Legends is available via Spotify Merch Bar / Discogs / Amazon

NEON PRIMITIVISM

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.

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.

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.

MAKE WAVES

Grateful for all the enthusiasm about my Freerider Flags recently. The Freerider Flags have been featured on SF Girl, Vogue Paris, Goop, Lonny, Chang & Co. Design and featured over at the iconic Surfrider hotel as well as in the Gilian Segal curatorial as well as the Cara Woodhouse Curatorial as well as Tappan’s At Home Curatorial.

If you are interested in purchasing a work, click the link below to explore the available editions.



Ali Beletic’s “Freerider Flags” demonstrate her interest in free rider culture, which she describes as a philosophy and way of life that celebrates new experiences beyond existing boundaries. The linen textiles are inspired by the words of journalist Hunter S. Thompson and the stories of vanguards who lived simply with hedonic spirit. Take “Party Wave” for example—the phrase originates from surf culture and describes when multiple surfers share a wave. Beletic’s flag champions the term and its unlimited, inclusive attitude.

Inspired in part by an ex-San Francisco surfer who paddled around Kauai on a 9.0 surfboard, sleeps in a beach cave, and fishes his own food – and other like surfers and vanguards out there surfing/living for the love of life and true hedonic spirit.

It is completely my intention to directly participate in this philosophy, intently promote a freerider culture and illuminate that which already celebrates life beyond boundaries and to forge new experiences with that which does and does not yet exist.

Flags featured as part of the collection at Casa Shelter Half, The Surfrider Hotel, Lightning, The Rosewood / Miramar Hotel and are currently available as part of the curatorial over at Tappan.







Pray for Surf

Pray for Surf featured at the Surfrider Hotel.

Pray for Surf featured at the Surfrider Hotel.

Super stoked to be one of the featured artists next to the one and only architect and artist Le Corbusier in the collection over at The Surfrider Hotel - a work of art in it's own right.  There is an interview with the owner of the hotel Emma Goodwin-Crowther talking her philosophy and artistic choices over at Rip & Tan.  Honored to be a part.

If you are interested in purchasing a work, click the link below to explore the available editions.

The Circle Motif

I just finished a new series of mineral paintings exploring the symbolism of the circle motif.

The circle is one of the symbols that dates back to the pre-history of human culture.  As a geometric form it occurs in the earliest paintings on cave walls.  It has a widespread and universal interpretive phenomenology; often metaphor for emergence, life, egalitarian cosmologies, the cyclical timescale of nature, infinity and seasons.  The symbolism of sitting in a circle, has extensive radiation among primitive and modern societies alike.  

SECRETLY IMPORTANT NAMES LEGENDS 2016 TOP 10

 
 

Thank you Secretly Important for including Legends of These Lands Left to Live on your top 10 list of 2016.  Completely floored and excited!! Couldn't be more honored!!

"..believe me I talked about it to an unhealthy degree, this is one of those albums that gave me everything I wanted in an album beautifully." - Brian Schneider

Read the full review and check out the other 9 albums here.

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