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Statement
My works conjure up my connections to places in nature and human built environments, exploring themes of transformation, continuity, and randomness via abstraction. I make oil paintings and mixed media drawings, and integrate my saved paint palettes and paint rags on textiles across disciplines such as embroidery, rughooking, block printing, collage, and sculptures.
I am inspired by the ever-changing formations of the waters, the sky and the land as well as the architectural details that, over time, grow into a space of obscurity prone to many possibilities. When I am outside, I am intentionally mindful of the physical shifts in the sky, on the earth and in the water. No matter how meaningful or significant I observe these phenomena to be, they change quickly, to reappear in new form. This signals a cycle of hope. What is attractive to me is the unnoticed and its potential to evoke wonder, vulnerability and creativity.
I randomly reference structural views as line work, gestural washes, paint residues, angles, shapes, patterns and fragments by making loose tracings based on the photographs I take. Tracing enables me to bring a current interpretation to the dissipating past and fickle memory. In my compositions, then, new meanings emerge intuitively, through rotating, repeating, and maneuvering, via the mediums of oil paint, watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, thread, yarn, archival markers and pens. Creating variations of the past and memories this way, allows me to further explore limitless new territories, textures and forms.
Bio
Born and raised in Istanbul, Türkiye in 1978, Kackar-Demirel received her MFA from Northern Illinois University, and her BFA from Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkiye. She has had solo exhibitions at 813 Microgallery, (Ann Arbor, MI), The Yard: City Hall Park, (NYC), Mooney Center Gallery of The College of New Rochelle, (NY), C.A.M. Gallery, (Istanbul, Turkey), Courthouse Gallery of Lake George Arts Project, (Lake George, NY), and McLean County Arts Center, (Bloomington, IL), including her virtual exhibition with Laura A. Sprague Gallery of Joliet Junior College, (Joliet, IL), among other venues. Her works have been exhibited in group shows across the United States including KinoSaito in Verplanck, NY, the High Line Nine Galleries in NYC and at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY as well as internationally in Italy, Israel, Türkiye. She attended the residency programs at the School Of Visual Arts in NYC and AreaOdeon in Monza, Italy. She is a recipient of Moon and Stars Project’s Exhibition Award. Her work has been featured in various catalogs and periodicals including Friend of the Artist, Dovetail, New American Paintings, New Visionary Magazine and Fresh Paint and was included in the online curated registries of The Drawing Center, All She Makes and in the Flat File 2021 Program at Collar Works. She lives and works in Lower Hudson Valley, New York.
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