MAKE WAVES
Grateful for all the enthusiasm about my Freerider Flags recently. The Freerider Flags have been featured on SF Girl, Vogue Paris, Goop, Lonny, Chang & Co. Design and featured over at the iconic Surfrider hotel as well as in the Gilian Segal curatorial as well as the Cara Woodhouse Curatorial as well as Tappan’s At Home Curatorial.
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Ali Beletic’s “Freerider Flags” demonstrate her interest in free rider culture, which she describes as a philosophy and way of life that celebrates new experiences beyond existing boundaries. The linen textiles are inspired by the words of journalist Hunter S. Thompson and the stories of vanguards who lived simply with hedonic spirit. Take “Party Wave” for example—the phrase originates from surf culture and describes when multiple surfers share a wave. Beletic’s flag champions the term and its unlimited, inclusive attitude.
Inspired in part by an ex-San Francisco surfer who paddled around Kauai on a 9.0 surfboard, sleeps in a beach cave, and fishes his own food – and other like surfers and vanguards out there surfing/living for the love of life and true hedonic spirit.
It is completely my intention to directly participate in this philosophy, intently promote a freerider culture and illuminate that which already celebrates life beyond boundaries and to forge new experiences with that which does and does not yet exist.
Flags featured as part of the collection at Casa Shelter Half, The Surfrider Hotel, Lightning, The Rosewood / Miramar Hotel and are currently available as part of the curatorial over at Tappan.
Pray for Surf
Pray for Surf featured at the Surfrider Hotel.
Super stoked to be one of the featured artists next to the one and only architect and artist Le Corbusier in the collection over at The Surfrider Hotel - a work of art in it's own right. There is an interview with the owner of the hotel Emma Goodwin-Crowther talking her philosophy and artistic choices over at Rip & Tan. Honored to be a part.
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Art & Events S/S 2015
May 24 Lightning Magazine Release - Future of Shred Article
May 30 Illuminated Passage, Joshua Treenial, Joshua Tree, CA
April 22 Torch Ceremony Private Installation Joshua Tree, CA
April 17 Desert Fireplace, Private Installation Joshua Tree
April 4 Best Magazine Release, Article discussing rock n roll, art, feminine sensibity and my upcoming record.
March 9 Light Sky, Private Installation Joshua Tree, CA in conjunction with Best Mag
March 7 Horizon Parallel, Private Installation, Joshua Tree, CA in Conjunction with LA Motocyclette
March Ali picked to rep the amazing women's motorcycle line BOOKER NYC.
February 28 Tappan Collective Gallery Unicef Annual Art Fundraiser
February 26 Limited Edition Print Release Double Dutch Press
January 22 Opening Tappan Collective/Gallery Show at Soho House - On view until February 22
January 10 Opening JTAG Gallery Show - On view until February 9.
Art & Events F/W 2014
November 22 Rock n Roll, Art, & Motorcycles Interview over at La Mignonette.
November 20 Cover Feature La Motocyclette.
November 18 Under the Same Sun / La Motocyclette Launch, Human NYC Gallery
October 20-26 Under the Same Sun installation work
September 15 Lecture on the Visceral History of Rock n Roll at the University of Arizona
Art & Events S/S 2014
August 15 Reflections on Artifacts, High Desert Test Sites Artist Swap Meet
July 15 Stone Works, JTHAR Art Show
June 12 Lightning Magazine release.
May 15 Hike in, Lightning 001, High Desert Test Sites, CA