Jagged Idols
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, and Oil on Canvas
40” x 30”
SOLD
Exploration Nouveau
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
91” x 62”
SOLD
Featured as part of the Statement Works Curatorial on Tappan.
New Mexico Flats
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, and Oil on Canvas
60” x 36”
SOLD
Run Among the Thunder
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
86” x 72”
Featured in Style Icon Fashion Editor Eva Chen’s new home in Architectural Digest.
"My family will be celebrating the holidays from our new weekend house for the first time this winter. We designed the space (with the marvelous Hendricks Churchill) to be a respite from NYC. As such, we were immediately drawn to soothing abstract art. Ali Beletic's serene but joyful work is a foundation for the aesthetic in our house. " - Eva Chen
Floating Grassfields
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Charcoal, and Oil on Canvas
72” x 60”
SOLD
Dive Deep
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
36” x 49”
$4800
Prelude
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
48” x 60”
SOLD
Field Vessel
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
36” x 49”
SOLD
Ali’s work has been featured as part of Maya Erskine’s curatorial and in Vogue’s curatorial next to Judy Chicago, penned by the brilliant Arden Fanning Andrews & guest curator Tamara Johnson.
“When I saw how Tappan Collective chooses guest curators to put together collections of works, I obviously was drawn to Maya Erskine’s picks,” says Johnson of the Pen15 creator-producer-actor’s selects, including Alexis Arnold’s sold-out Crystallized Books series and Ali Beletic’s Material and the Sensual painting.”
Beletic’s Neon Primitivism series is a natural extension of the artist’s commitment to primitivist ideology and ‘bringing the party and the fun’. This new series celebrates the canvas and painting as a form with the power to transfer primitivism, sensuality and emotion to a space in a modern return to Ab Ex style, mixing the ultra mattes of Mexican folk art by sourcing untraditional pigments and incorporating clays, botanical dyes and oils, and pointing to forms that enlight the viewer towards the multiple directions of cave paintings, the new york school, ceremonial body paints, line work, weathered artifacts, Charles Olsen’s Archaic Post Modern and pop art, celebrating the marriage of archaic and contemporary tradition, sensuality and artistic expression.
“Party Wave”, “Rain” and “Form #1”
Original Textile, Clay Painting and Neon Work by Ali
Form #1
Neon and plexi | 2021
26” x 20”
$3800
Featured as part of Sized Studio Curator Alexander May’s curatorial on Tappan.
“I have had neon on and off in my life in various homes and spaces. I find when in its most simplest form it is the most effective. Ali Beletic’s piece really does this for me.” - Alexander May
Attenzione
Neon and plexi | 2021
15” x 60”
$8600
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Neon and plexi | 2021
10” x 18”
$3800
Conceptual cues from journalism, vanguardism, mythology, and primitivism are layered within this body of work. Each sculpture expands on themes from Beletic’s “Neon Primitivism” series, in which she juxtaposed symbolism from ancient cultures with features of modern art and music. The new neon pieces serve as punk, pop art gestures, lighting up rooms and demanding attention. Beletic fittingly titled the series “Neon Works (for the Vanguards to take home with them),” hoping the sculptures will define space for extroverts and partiers.
The sculptures in this series are made of authentic neon, wired, and can be plugged into regular outlets. Each work includes pre-drilled holes in the plexi as well as hardware for wall mounting.
Prelude II
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
70” x 70”
SOLD
Her directness of emotion communicated through primal, rugged gestures, juxtaposed with an integration of ancient philosophies explores the thin line between symbolic totems, anthropomorphic figuration, gestural abstraction and a modern pop sensibility. Her confident and rule shattering sensibility pulls on us to be 21st century rebels once again and to seek wildness, experience, humanity, and mythos.
Light Reflection I
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
48” x 36”
SOLD
Ali’s work across multiple mediums has always been founded conceptually in both her nature and survival skills studies as well as her ‘bringing the party and the fun’. It is here that Ali’s conceptual work led naturally to the crossover that would lead her to explore paintings based on sensuality and dimension - the feeling, the experience and the space they create. It was here that she derived the process of working with clays, dried plant materials, botanical dyes, and paints made of finely crushed rare minerals and gems, to explore glowing mattes and chalky earthy textures. This follows in the tradition of her prior sculptural work (almost an artistic take on experimental archeology) which traces primitive technologies, and works with the experiential and the sensual - i.e. hand building mahogany and glass rain catchments, working with fire as a sculptural element, exploring artifact creation using primitive tools and techniques as a means to explore primitivism, lighting up a boulder strewn desert for invitees to walk through, and even building a surfboard from Tule reeds.