Ardan Özmenoğlu90

Blue Tree III

2019

Ardan Özmenoğlu draws from her own experiences as a Turkish woman to explore ideas about history, popular culture, and the formation of a national and cultural identity. Known for her figurative works made from Post-it notes and sculptures created from layers of glass panels, Özmenoğlu aims to make the viewer rethink familiar concepts, objects, and imagery using everyday items. Works such as Beauty Balloon Pink with Triangles (2020) exude playfulness and uniqueness in their recontextualization of mundane objects. In works like post-it leaves (2019), she prints...

A sculpture made with glass layers and painted with nail polish and acrylic, set on an acrylic pedestal. The glass leaves are separated by slits on the pedestal and give the sculpture an extraordinary three-dimensional volume. With the distinctive medium of nail polish on glass, Özmenoğlu re-contextualizes everyday objects from something ordinary to a beautiful work of art. Her glass panel sculptures play with the viewer’s perspective, changing with every angle to appear both two and three dimensional. Keywords: Glass, nail polish, pedestal, new york, interior design, plum tree...

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