Thank you to all the brilliant journalists, who have shared my work and taken the vested energy to highlight fun and creative insights.
Online Reviews & Features
NPR New Music Friday / Stereogum / Flood / Talkhouse / NPR, Songs We Love / Vice/ Noisey (USA & UK) / She Makes Music / With Guitars / Stereogum / New York Magazine’s The Cut / Architectural Digest / Ignant / Tuned Up / Brooklyn Vegan / Blood Makes Noise / Anyone Girl (New Zealand) / The Guardian (UK) / Impose, This Week in Pop / Aquarium Drunkard / She Makes Music UK / La Motocyclette / Vogue Paris / Iron & Air / Tiny Atlas / Best Magazine / Paper Sea (Australia) / My Chameleon (France) / La Mingnonette (France) / Velvet Dust / Hullabaloo / The Revue / Consequence of Sound / Range Magazine / LVL3 / Good Old Review / Indie Crush / IMN / Setlist / For the Rabbits / Art School Vets / Modern Fix / KCHUNG & Inspirado Projecto / Cicada Wheels / Secretly Important / Of the Wolves / WTF Digital / Enigma / SF Girl / Glamour Magazine / My Domaine (Artist to Watch Next to Alex Israel and James Franco) / My Domaine / Yahoo Lifestyle / Teasers and Dares / Domain Home / Rip & Tan / Trendy Chickadee / Pop Sugar / Travel & Leisure / Goop / Flood / Closed Cap / Our Culture / Mundane Mag / Glamour / Wallpaper / Surface / Elle / Gotham / Sunset Magazine / Trendland / Sight Unseen / Angeleno / SoCal Magazine / AN Interior / Trendhunter / Interior Design / Cultured / Apartment Therapy / Surface Magazine / Architectural Digest / Vogue / Luxe Magazine
Print Publications
Luxe Magazine May-June 2023 / Under the Same Sun, Horizon Parallel, Iron and Air / Mineral Paintings, C Magazine / RocknRoll, Best Magazine / Stone Sculptures, Paper Sea, Australia / Tiny Atlas / Horizon Parallel, La Motocyclette / Under The Same Sun, Lightning Magazine / Under The Same Sun, La Motocyclette, 2014 (Cover Feature) / On Building a Tule Surfboard, Lightning Magazine / Iron and Air / LA Weekly / Range Magazine /
“From traditional gallery and field work to adventure-driven parties, Beletic’s intention is to evoke wild instincts within the context of the art world. And so the motives such as primeval rituals, vast natural spaces and liberating journeys carry throughout her work, inviting the viewers – or participants – to recreate the experience of their ancestors.” - IGNANT
"Ali Beletic is a rebel with a cause, a modern-day version of James Dean who is no longer willing to play by the regular rules of engagement. Instead, she was going to do things her own way.... A rebel who just might become a living legend alongside Patti Smith, P.J. Harvey, and Dan Auerbach." - The Revue
"She is best known for her work as an installation artist. She creates symbolic art stunts as expansive as setting up mahogany and glass Judd-like sculptural pools in remote deserts, throwing parties with drummers hidden throughout the backcountry, and illuminating an entire boulder field you can hike through. Needless to say, she has an eye for provocative imagery, and apparently her senses are fluid because she has an ear for the provocative as well. The sense of roaming, exploration, and wanderlust in her visual components transfer to her music. " - Stereogum
"AN ANTHEM FOR THE REBEL IN ALL OF US" - THE REVUE, CA
"Beletic's debut album, Legends of These Lands Left to Live, takes its emotionally raw energy from the wells of transformation and mystery. At times, the record recalls Patti Smith's ragged and desperate punk, the Flat Duo Jets' animalistic rockabilly played super slow, or Cat Power's cigarette-chewing soul — yet, even with such high-profile reference points, Beletic holds her own... Ali Beletic's Debut is one of the most refreshing rock albums I've heard in a while." - LARS GOTRICH, NPR
"HOLY SHIT, I KNEW LONG BEFORE I HEARD DEAD SERIOUS THAT LEGENDS… WAS GOING TO BE ONE OF THIS YEARS BEST, BUT THAT SONG SEALED ITS FATE AS ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS I’VE EVER REVIEWED." - BRIAN SNIDER, SECRETLY IMPORTANT
"The song is sparse and concentrated, with the alternating strum and wail of two guitars, later a subdued piano—even as it builds to a crashing chorus it refuses to scatter, instead garnering a terrifying concentration not too far off from Patti Smith’s growling fury and triumph on Horses. The heartfelt line “We’ve lived so well” sinks deeper with each reiteration and each breath between, and it’s hard not to be swayed. " - Amelia Pitcherella, Impose
"IT'S RARE THAT WE REMEMBER TO TAKE A BREATHER, AND BE SILENT, WHICH IS WHY ARTISTS WHO PROMPT YOU TO DO THAT CAN OFTEN BE SOME OF THE BEST...THE RESULT HARNESSES THE DETERMINATION OF PATTI SMITH, THE DARK DRAWL OF CAT POWER, AND THE BEATNIK HOME-IS-WHERE-MY-HARMONICA-HOLDER-IS VIBE OF EARLY BOB DYLAN." - EMMA GARLAND, VICE/NOISEY
"She is best known for her work as an installation artist. She creates symbolic art stunts as expansive as setting up mahogany and glass Judd-like sculptural pools in remote deserts, throwing parties with drummers hidden throughout the backcountry, and illuminating an entire boulder field you can hike through. Needless to say, she has an eye for provocative imagery, and apparently her senses are fluid because she has an ear for the provocative as well. The sense of roaming, exploration, and wanderlust in her visual components transfer to her music. " - STEREOGUM
"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. " - Eva Chen, Fashion Director Vogue and Instagram
"I love Ali's large scale paintings; the saturation grabs your eye and is visually interesting, which can add just the right pop to an otherwise neutral room. I think all of her heavily saturated paintings are very striking." - Ariel Okin (designer to celebrities such as Lena Dunham and Sara Foster, as well as the headquarters for brands like Goop, Maisonette, and Minnow Swim, and contributing writer to Vogue, Covetuer, Architectural Digest, and Domino.