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Darius Yektai"Dark Self" Post Modern oil painting, an opaque self-portrait of artist on black2024
2024
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"Dark Self" is a post modern, oil on linen painting. It depicts a man in a very dark room, barely visible.
The viewer continues to search for Yektai’s image in “Dark Self” which is only one of a large series of what he calls the “Dark Self-Portraits,” inspired by the many celebrated portraits from Rembrandt. By adding a thin layer of stand oil, a sheen overcomes the surface, causing an obfuscating glare to what is already very obscure. The viewer is forced to move around the painting, catching glimpses of the artist’s image in fragments. Is the artist afraid to show his vulnerable self? Or does the viewer need to try to earn admittance to his private self? Perhaps privacy is paramount, which is a reasonable boundary for anyone to draw.
Framed in a black floating frame.
Framed dimensions: 28.5 x 24.5 inches
Signed by artist on verso
Darius Yektai was born in Southampton NY, in 1973. He lives and works out of his home and studio in Sag Harbor. He grew up in a cultural home of art and artists, with his Greek-American Mother, and his Father, Manoucher Yektai, an Iranian who emigrated to the US after the Second World War, was a prominent Hamptons AbEx painter. Darius has picked up some traits from his father but pushes even further into what is now completely his-own.
Darius' most recent body of work is bright, colorful, with oil and acrylic paints laid on thick. He's creating sculptural paintings that can't be read from left to right, they need to be examined from surface to base, from section to section, and then overall as an encompassing whole.
- Creator:Darius Yektai (1973, American)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Sag Harbor, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: YEK-0071541stDibs: LU389315725402
Darius Yektai
Darius Yektai was born in Southampton, New York, in 1973. He lives and works out of his home and studio in Sag Harbor. Darius grew up in a cultural home of art and artists, with his Greek-American mother and his father, Manoucher Yektai, an Iranian who emigrated to the United States after the Second World War. Manoucher was a prominent Hamptons Abstract Expressionist painter. Darius has picked up some traits from his father but pushes even further into what is now completely his own.
Darius’s most recent body of work is bright and colorful, with oil and acrylic paints laid on thickly. He's creating sculptural paintings that can't be read from left to right — they need to be examined from surface to base, from section to section, and then, overall, as an encompassing whole.
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