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Jale Çelik

JALE ÇELİK (1966 - )

Çelik, was born in Ankara in 1966. She received awards in international art competitions while she was still a high school student and is currently studying at Atılım University, Fine Arts Design and Architecture Faculty, Department of Interior Decoration and Environmental Design. She uses various colors with enthusiasm of an illusionist hiding the secrets of what is seen, what seems to be missing and what is really missing, inviting the viewers to find the “missing parts” and pointing to the fact that the search for the missing parts is the essence of reality. She uses hundreds of layers of acrylic paint on canvas and numerous manipulations to create repetitive esthetic motifs and an explosion of colors. In her architectural projects she has tried the time and place relationship and in her later works the concept of eternity has become predominant. Çelik has participated in many art fairs in Turkey and abroad, and exhibited her works in many solo and group exhibitions. The artist works and lives in Istanbul.