LAUNCH F18 and Uprise Art are pleased to present The Night Paintings, an exhibition of new work by Senem Oezdogan. In her paintings, Oezdogan employs precise color relationships to explore the absence and presence of light and the alluring mystery of night.
Like eyes adjusting to darkness, Oezdogan’s paintings reveal themselves slowly. Cloaked in rich hues of indigo, the paintings are punctuated with radiant pricks of vermillion and ochre tinged yellows. Deep maroons reverberate against the nearly black blues, both simultaneously receding and advancing forward into space. This optical dissonance disrupts the viewer’s understanding of Oezdogan’s constructed planes, alluding to the disorienting quality of the decreased visibility in darkness.
The primordial opposition of day and night, light and dark has long preoccupied the collective consciousness on a biological and psychological level. Oezdogan’s paintings excavate these emotional and physical phenomena, giving shape to the spectral space of night.
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Senem Oezdogan (b. 1980) is a Brooklyn-based mixed media artist whose works meditate on the visual phenomenon of optical illusions through color and form. Smooth gradients give a sense of volume to the bold shapes depicted in Senem’s work that are subsequently flattened by her illusionistic use of spatial composition. Her color palette is equally beguiling, disrupting foreground and background and constantly forcing the viewer to reorient their sense of perspective.
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In connection with Senem Oezdogan's recent exhibition, The Night Paintings, Marissa Graziano sat down with the artist to look further into her influences, and in depth perspective into painting. Oezdogan is a Brooklyn based artist who works to create original paintings that look beyond the medium itself.
In her meditative color palette and form-driven paintings, Senem Oezdogan explores her canvases’ space by experimenting with colour, dimensionality and flatness.
Artist Senem Oezdogan discussed with Leila Antakly her exploration of light's transformative quality as well as the emotional response its absence and presence creates in her current exhibition, The Night Paintings.
The Night Paintings by Senem Oezdogan made Two Coats of Paint's: Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: May 2021. Visit Two Coats of Paint to see Senem's exhibition, along with a variety of other exhibitions around New York City.