Gulten Imamoglu

Artist/Professor Gulten Imamoglu
The artist brings together her intuitions and utopias with a spectators' reality and associates them with the meanings of colourful and dynamic paintings. Images of the artist, which make life and death related, moreover connected, which are seen at the same platform on life and death planes equal and identical.
The artist manages to bring together dynamism of beauty with stability of death, infinity of thought with concreteness of art and the mercilessness of reality with livability of dreams. Colours are not seen as real colours in her paintings, but as a vortex reminding us of a natural disaster. Opening our eyes to far horizons, they actually deal with meaningful and unexpected blows to our inner world. Its caressing is like a heavy slap on the face, its fluidity is like an escape sometimes borrowed but intractable. To tell the truth, the painter is skilled enough to escape from us and to take shelter in her colourful universe. She likes colour countercurrents and she does not hesitate to shoot us with that gun. Defining Gülten İmamoğlu as an artist who attacks us with colours and defends herself with colours would not be wrong, as she uses her colours as an instrument for a hurtful sense,...

2005 Became an Associate Professor.1994-98 Received Proficiency in Art-PhD. Degree at Ondokuz Mays University presented her thesis, the topic of which is The Drawing education as a practice that can be developed from the objective determination techniques to the subjective expression in visual expression. Appointed as a member of faculty at the same department.1991-94 Received M.F.A. degree at Ondokuz Mays University, completed the thesis The View of Samsun Public to the Painting Art1992 Appointed as a research assistant to the Department of Painting, Ondokuz Mays University.1991 Graduated from Ondokuz Mays University, Department of Art, Faculty of Education.1970 Born in Tokat, Turkey.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2010 ‘SOLARİS’ Modernist, İSTANBUL
2010 ‘AURORA’Samsun Ticaret Merkezi, SAMSUN
2009 ‘PASSION’HayHill Gallery,Cork Street,London,İNGİLTERE
2009 Abra Gallery, Los Angales, AMERİKA
2009 ‘SÜRGÜN’Garage of Art, İSTANBUL
2008. ArtExpo Art Fair, Jacop Javits Center,NewYork, AMERİKA
2007. ‘ARINMA’ Art&Life Sanat Galerisi, İSTANBUL
2007. ArtExpo Art Fair, Mandalay Bay Convention Center, LasVegas, AMERİKA
2007. ‘Anadolu Tanrıçaları’ ArtExpo Art Fair, New York, AMERİKA
2006.’SudaGiz’ ArtForum Sanat Fuarı, Art&Life Sanat Galer...

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