Belgin Yucelen

Creating is a sacred call for me, a responsibility to peruse myself, to communicate my inner-self and evoke a form of consciousness.

The process of art making is a revelation for knowing who I am. To make sense of a feeling, I search for forms. From these forms, I create imaginary worlds that help conjure unrealized possibilities. When the viewer recognizes her own experiences in these imaginary worlds I create, my art becomes a sense making tool as encountering feelings and experiences similar to ours validates them.
I can only create the view from my own window manifested by my hands. With each story I tell, or feeling I express, I aim to start a communication through which I meet with my viewer, and other viewers meet within the space only art can create, dissolving the separation between us, and across time, distances and cultures.

In many aspects of my life, including objects I own, words I use, and my art, I aim to assume meaning with less. In my artmaking, I use a soft voice, almost an understatement with silences, and pauses which create spaces of ambiguity where the viewer can escape from the limitations and complexities of a well-defined subject. By presenting a mere hint of the story, I evaluate the possibility...

She studied sculpture at the Florence Accademia D'Arte in Florence and she is a recipient of more than 20 grants. Her work was publicized in a number of publications including Westword, Warhola Contemporary, Pittsburgh Articulate, Tribune Review, Les Femmes Folles, Daily Camera, Chicago Reader, and Examiner.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 BMoCA @Frasier Meadows Summer 2022, July-October

2020 Among Flowers in Bloom (art installation, dance and music) at the House of Serein, CO, March-April
Clothes from the Past at the Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN, November 2019-January 2020

2019 From Ancient to Now at the BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, May – June

2018 Clothes from the Past at the Helena Davis Gallery, Artspace, Richmond, VA, July – August

2017 Sole Purpose: The Shoe at the Arts/Harmony Hall, Fort Washington, MD, October - December
7th Solo Art Series Art Competition at the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, October – November and Artsy.net
Installation: For Children who will Never be Able to Fly a Kite, fundraiser for the famine in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria, June, 2017
Clothes from the Past: Installation at the Lakeside Legacy Foundation (LLF), Dole Mansion, IL, March
Ethereal Shoes: Installation at the LLF, Dole Mansion, IL, March
Floating Children: Installation in collaboration with photojournalist Brian Rutter at the LLF, IL, March
Words: Installation and Audio Show at the Lakeside Legacy Foundation, Dole Mansion, IL, March

2016 Journey of a Thousand Years at the Memorial Hall...