The art she made there — with its buoyant bands of colour — offer no clues to
the turbulent life of an artist who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Not exact matches
Alice Neel (2007, Andrew Neel) Filmmaker Andrew Neel, grandson
of artist Alice Neel, examines his grandmother's artistic achievements and
turbulent personal
life.
From Gorky's
turbulent childhood fleeing the Armenian genocide in Turkey, to his adulthood in the United States, to his suicide in his forties after a traumatic series
of physical and emotional setbacks, this biography offers an intimate window into the
artist's
life, telling his story through many voices: his letters, sent and received; the correspondence
of family and friends; pivotal reviews and criticism; newspaper articles and other essential documents.
WHO KNOWS WHERE WE ARE is the name
of its most recent collaborative project, in which
artists Borga Kantürk, Evrim Kavcar, Gökce Süvari, Gümüs Özdes, Merve Ünsal and Sevgi Ortac
lived together with Selda Asal for one
turbulent month.
Creative Hand, Discerning Heart is a pair
of related exhibits (fall, 2012 and summer, 2013) that celebrate this incredible diversity among
living artists, while also seeking connections that lie, often unseen, just beneath the
turbulent surface
of the contemporary art world.
The variety
of polymorphic manifestations reveals at the same time the complexity
of the
artist's psychology, characterized by the
turbulent circumstances
of her
life.