Art
that we do not call you (2018) by Elif Soyer
- Item Number
- 111
- Estimated Value
- 5000 USD
- Opening Bid
- 3750 USD
Item Description
I’ve always wanted to journal but inevitably recorded the mundane, like “I traded pizza for rolls.” Here I found it easy to think, write and not write. I cut/pasted accumulated junk-mail, worked into it and placed bits of my drawings/paintings into it, the work became the journal.
mixed media on wood panel
36 x 36 x 1.5"
Courtesy of Kingston Gallery
Item Special Note
"I'm supporting this because it's the right thing to do. When I was an undergrad at Emory, I wrote a paper sighting the number of times the mainstream media labelled AIDS as a new type of disease only affecting gay men, at the time devaluing both the population the virus seemed to be singling out and the urgency of and breadth of the epidemic itself in one linguistic stroke. I am hoping we have come a long way from that, but we still all have to pull together and keep momentum." - Elif Soyer
Elif Soyer is a Turkish-American artist. She received a BA in Economics from Emory University in 1985, a studio diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston then went one to get a MFA from Tufts and the SMFA. She in a member of SOWA's Kingston Gallery and co-owner of Moe Fencing Club in Somerville, MA where she trains Olympic hopefuls, weekend warriors and some of the top-ranked fencers in the US. Her work as an artists has oscillated between drawing on the interior landscape of the human body and the exterior landscape of her immediate environment, but has always had a very strong tie to time through layering or other seemingly obsessive processes. While she loves the process of painting and drawing, she has a very strong attraction to so-called “untraditional” mediums such as gravel, discarded textile, raw clay and the scraps and remnants of day to day life.
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