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Artist Statement:
Doing art has always been my
means of communication
I attribute my participation
with the Art Students' League
in New York to have influenced
the development of my
individual style.
With numerous artistic
workshops, I further continued
my studies and when I later
moved to the Washington D.C.
metropolitan ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
April,2003-2005 solo
exhibition in New
york(Worldfineart Art Gallery)
2003-2004Amsterdam Whitney
Gallery..
Duygu Kivanc's work can be
seen at MOCA DC/A+M Galleries
1054 31st St NW
Canal Square in Georgetown
An art book of my paintings
is published
1/1/2007 and in circulation..
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Artist Galleries:
MOCA DC/A+M Galleries
1054 31st St NW
Canal Square in Georgetown
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Collections:
United Nations,
1978,New-York,N.Y USA
Private
collections.
Online galleries in USA and
in Berlin ,Germany
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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KIRKUS DISCOVERIES:
Artist and first-time author Kivanc offers readers a glimpse into the mysterious and exotic kingdom
of Bhutan, where she lived from 1984 to 1987.
Kivanc presents works inspired by her three years in Bhutan in narrative text and mixed-media pictures
totaling 38 pages, making this a brief art book. In addition to paintings of the South Asian nation, the
artist has included illustrations of her native Turkey as well as Hawaii and a more abstract work entitled
“Peace.” The artwork is somewhat stylized with characteristically solid elements flowing together to create
the scene. The assembled paintings evoke a vivid sense of time and place. While Kivanc clearly experiments
with various media, a strong aesthetic point of view is present in each composition too. A few of
the best works can be compared with Gauguin in terms of their unnatural color palette and the use of flat
interconnecting shapes. These works include “Child Carrying Child” and “Palace Gate Road.” Readers who enjoy the style of David Hockney’s
landscapes will also enjoy “Hills” and “Through the Window <3,” in which soft flowing swathes of fantastical colors evoke a panorama. The
subjects of the paintings are mostly landscapes, or women and children. Unfortunately, readers cannot always be sure that the colors in the originals
have been faithfully represented in the book. The occasional pixilation (“Paro Valley”) or use of dark murky colors (“Village Scene” and
“Entrance to the Dzong”) gives the impression that some elements from the original paintings were not reproduced well. Sticklers for detail may
lament that the original dimensions of the artwork aren’t mentioned in the book. However, the text—while minimal—is straight to the point and
fascinating.
Given its brevity, more of an art appetizer than a main dish.
Kivanc, Duygu
PAINTINGS OF TRAVELS
TO BHUTAN
Xlibris (38 pp.)
$22.99; $18.99 paperback
January 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4257-4648-3
Paper: 978-1-4257-2165-7
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