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Amanda Wall is an American artist who was born in Oregon, and now lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She is a self-taught painter, who’s vivid figurative work portrays human form in domestic scenarios, bordering on a surrealist lens.
Demet Müftüoğlu Eşeli is the co-founder and creative head of ISTANBUL’74, the international IST. Arts & Culture Festival, ‘74STUDIO and ’74Escape. Born in Istanbul, Demet spent many years in New York City, before returning to her home city to establish her own creative initiatives.
A brand new ‘New Normal’ is upon us. By ‘us’ I mean Madrid, where I live, in particular, and humankind in general. A New Normal which, as opposed to its earlier reiterations (2008 and 2012, anyone?), will have an equally immense impact not only in the future of global economics but also in our overall
Born in Istanbul. Kezban Arca Batibeki graduated from The Fine Arts Faculty of Istanbul Marmara University’s Graphic Arts Department. She worked for the best art and women magazines in Turkey as an illustrator, designed book covers, children books and movie posters. She created an animation film for Swedish State TV and worked as a production
Fascinated by the blend of art with various disciplines and out-of-the-box forms of display, Bryce Wolkowitz, Founder of Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York, dedicated his career to support an array of innovative and multi-disciplinary practices on art. ‘74 Co-Founder Demet Muftuoglu Eseli asked Wolkowitz how he got involved in the field of public art,
How Gozde Ilkin got started… When I was in college, there were certain rules. I was in the painting department and there you were only supposed to paint with paints but I also attended the carpet atelier where you can be interested in many other things such as classical weaving. During that phase I started
Angel Otero is a Puerto Rico born contemporary visual artist specializing in painting. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Angel Otero is a visual artist best known for his process-based paintings. While much of his works have been influenced by memories based in photographs and other family memorabilia combined with the gestures
The young and talented artist, Zeynep Solakoglu, lives and works in her apartment in Topağacı, where one would not expect such an artsy “inn” would exist. Her choice of bright colours both in her works and in her decoration taste gives one a feeling of being in a playground. Starting to draw and paint at
We paid a visit to the studio of young multi-disciplinary artist Zeynep Birced, located in Galatasaray. Her modest atelier mirrors her effortless eclectic taste, and her similarly varied work. Birced confessed she works best in there when she invites other artists to work in the studio, in order to create a collective atmosphere of concentrated
Our latest contribution from Sleek Magazine Berlin. Painting in three dimensions while reframing art history. Given that she usually works in series of six or seven, it comes as no surprise that Eva Berendes’ two most recent works are named after days of the week – “Untitled (Monday & Tuesday)”, 2013. “I tend to do
Our visit is to our beloved friend Serdar Gulgun’s mansion in the Asian side in Çengelköy, situated right on the Bosphorus. Serdar, for those of you who have’t heard about him, is somewhat of a renaissance man who carries the grace of a nobleman. He is an interior designer, collector of Ottoman art as well
Marit Ostberg is a filmmaker and visual artist from Sweden. Her visual world has been described as uncompromising – uncompromisingly current and uncompromisingly sexy. How did you start directing queer feminist porn?I was asked to make a short porn for the Swedish feminist-porn-DVD compilation called “Dirty Diaries”. I was excited to do something that I
Canadian photographer Andrew B. Myers is based in New York City. He has collaborated with many brands and publications such as American Express, Airbnb, Apple, Vogue, Google, Time magazine, GQ and The New Yorker. Source Let’s jump straight into the conversation; what are you focused on nowadays?Right now I’m focused on settling into New York life and trying
Hanne Lippard (1984, Milton Keynes, England) is a writer and visual artist working with text in the idioms of concrete poetry and text art, using her own voice as her main medium. She lives and works in Berlin. Considering the constant move that we are all dealing with in our era, are you on this
JR is an artist who is in equal measures, a photographer and a graffiti artist. By fly posting black and white photographic images in public locations such as buildings, he states that the street is “the largest art gallery in the world. Initially beginning his career as a teenage graffiti artist on the streets of
Swedish fashion designer Johan Lindeberg is the founder of J. Lindeberg, Paris68, and BLK DNM. He has previously worked with Hans Brindfors Annonsbyra ad agency, Justin Timberlake, Diesel, William Rast, and Absolut. Johan has a daughter, Blue Lindeberg, who is a model. Source Tell us a little bit about your background. What was it like to pursue an interest in
German journalist Sven Schumann is co-founder of the online interview magazine The Talks. Schumann is also editor of Purple Magazine and started his own company, Black Ink. Source How did you end up with this profession?I always enjoyed talking to people, so it came to me pretty naturally. I started working with magazines around the world first
In 1986, Alain Passard opened his restaurant Arpege, previously run by his own master Alain Senderens under the name Archestrate. He named it so to pay tribute to music, his second passion and decorated the restaurant in an Art Deco style. Source First and Foremost thank you for welcoming me here today. It is such an
José Parlá (born 1973) has received critical acclaim for his works, which lie at the boundary between abstraction and calligraphy. Composed from layers of paint, gestural drawing and found ephemera, his work evokes the histories of urban environments. Parlá is a documentarian of city life. Using the backdrop of New York City and many other
Joseph Dirand has been sharpening his eye since childhood, he knows how to see, a rare quality indeed. He sees the space and perspective of a place. His sense for composition comes from his creative family background, he has a scenographer’s eye and frames volume with extreme precision. Dirand is sensitive to the way light
Prof. Dr. Ali Akay was born in Istanbul in 1957. He studied sociology, philosophy and politics at Paris VIII University, and graduated in 1979. He completed his doctoral degree in philosophy at his alma mater in 1986. Akay has taught at the Sociology Department of Mimar Sinan University. He received a title of Associate Professor
Gilles Peterson is a broadcaster, DJ and record collector who’s played a pivotal role in supporting forward-thinking underground music in the UK and beyond over the past three decades. He hosts weekly primetime Saturday afternoon show on BBC Radio 6 Music that’s one of the broadcaster’s most popular music shows, helms independent record label Brownswood
A graduate of French Language and Literature from Hacettepe University, Done Otyam also attended art courses in Bilkent and Hacettepe Universities. She founded Abitus and Zon galleries, she has also been the director of various other galleries and opened many exhibitions. Otyam has worked for various TV corporations as art director producing art related programs.
After completing her education; including St. George’s Austrian High School, Koc University and UC Berkeley, Zeynep Moroglu took part in variety of financial institutions in Turkey and abroad. Zeynep Moroglu started in the food and beverage sector in 2004 as the cofounder of the brand “biriki” and she went back to San Francisco to study
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