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Elvan Alpay

ELVAN ALPAY (1968 -  )

She was born in Ankara in 1968. After her education at Galatasaray High School, she studied art at Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Hüsamettin Koçan Workshop. After working at the Salzburg Academy for a short time, she completed his master's degree at Marmara University. In her paintings, where repetitive motifs are transformed into conceptual content, psychological messages. It is processed at the level of the rules of communication. In her paintings, she expresses the "states" of the human being in her inner world with images that we are accustomed to but do not encounter frequently. There are also three-dimensional works that are often created by repeating various forms or motifs, which are contrary to familiar art objects. The artist, who has works in the Paris Fondation Cartier collection and participated in exhibitions in centers such as Paris, Cologne, London, Düsseldorf and New York, continues her life and works in Istanbul.