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Pelin Yazar Cañez | She was born in 1969 in Istanbul,
Turkey, where she studied at Marmara
University, with painter Nevhiz Tanyeli, earning her bachelor's
of Arts degree in Painting and Art Education; and at Istanbul
Technical University, with photographer and artist Ahmet Keskin,
earning her master's of Fine Arts degree in Painting, and Visual
and Environmental Arts. She also studied under the late Turkish
master Lütfü Cülcül.
Pelin has developed a great
deal of experience in the profession of art education, particularly
with children. She has taught at institutions and workshops in
Turkey and North America, and has exhibited there many times,
including exhibitions at the Turkish American Association for
Cultural Exchange (Chicago, 1999); the 20th Annual Festival of
the Federation of Turkish American Associations (New York, 2001);
the Middfest International Festival (Middletown, Ohio, 2000);
and at the Fête culturelle familiale: Turquie (Rivière-du-Loup,
Quebec, 2007).
Pelin currently resides in
Montréal, Canada. She is married and has three cats.
Pelin's solo exhibitions include:
2007 | Fête culturelle
familiale : Turquie, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec
2007 | Songs of Spring, Galerie V, Montréal
2002 | Dara Tribal Village Ethnic Art Gallery, Chicago
2001 | New Paintings, 20th Annual Festival, Federation of Turkish
American Associations, New York
1998 | Cats of Istanbul, Truman College, Chicago
1996 | Abstract Woman Images, Sefhaathane Café Gallery,
Istanbul
1995 | Thoughts On Degas, Taskisla Gallery, Istanbul Technical
University, Turkey
Her group exhibitions include:
2008 | 2008 Art Show, Foreign
Service Community Association, Ottawa
2008 | Trois Pinceaux d'Orient, Festival Accès Asie, Montréal
2007 | Four Women, Four Cultures, One World, Galerie MosaikArt,
Montréal
2006 | Collection of Local Artists, Galerie V, Montréal
2006 | Paysages, Galerie Donati, Montréal
2006 | Juried Spring Show, The Arts Club, Montréal
2001-2002 | Oak Park Art League Remembrance Show, Oak Park, Illinois
2000 | Middfest International Festival, Middletown, Ohio
1999 | Turkish American Association for Cultural Exchange, University
of Chicago
1999 | New Content Gallery, Chicago
1999 | Around-The-Coyote Festival, Chicago
1998 | Las Manos Gallery, Chicago
1996 | Taskisla Gallery, Istanbul Technical University
1992 | Alarko Art Gallery, Istanbul
Artist's Statement
My approach to painting derives
from the consequences and possibilities of colours living side
by side each other. I enjoy submerging in the surprise and play
they offer as they are let loose from their tubes and containers,
sometimes in pure splashes, sometimes mixed and worked, to take
on new life on the canvas or board with imaginative flashes of
brush or finger or knife. Everything depends on this relationship
of colours; it is the primary joy of the visual art. Forms and
patterns, contours and later delineations are conjured from their
essential, vivid appearance and radiation.
A harmony, or skilful balance, then
becomes of the utmost concern. Without playing colours against
each other wisely, or by ignoring a colour's own implicit array
of sympathies and antipathies, the impact of colours moving emotionally
across, into and through each other, is diminished. A painter
in love with colour delights in the freedom of paint like a child,
and succeeds through innocence; but, listening to colours, the
painter deploys them according to their secret desires, and succeeds
through the affectionate and intelligent care of the gardener.
Ultimately, these colours grow
to support a larger, a grander conversation of forms and patterns.
I seek the emergence of bounded worlds that should glow with
a simple, musical incandescence. I try to catch a glimpse of
ecstatic magic through often benevolent commonplace objects,
images, and animals set amid rough-hewn landscapes. This is where
a person's heart resonates warmly, unburdened, but open to the
dreaming rhythms that escape our more complicated and self-obsessed
habits.
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