After a successful twenty year career as a textile designer and impressionist painter, Sitki has evolved into an “artist architect” producing three dimensional geometrically composed sculptures that pull you in and follow you in every direction.Sitki’s 3D forms and shapes create patterns of foreground/background confusion with exaggerated sense of depth. Viewers will find themselves turning their heads at angles and walking away with one eye stuck on his work as if to figure out the puzzle.Perhaps it is the fusion of East meets West that has brought this international Turkish-born artist to this point in his work. His birthplace exposed him to both Islamic and European art in which geometric patterns are ubiquitous. As a boy he studied art in Turkey and later moved to Oxford, England to learn about abstraction and expand his understanding of color. He learned his textile design at major art schools in London.His past works were of still life and landscapes yetSitki newest collection plays with perspective, space and architecture. “Great artists are always learning and changing and struggling to bring something to the world to enhance life,” he believes. Sitki contributes much of his inspiration in his latest work to the influence of optical artists as M.C. Escher and Victor Vasarely.
Art By Sitki
Opening Reception Saturday
April 18th, 2009
4 pm - 8 pm
Exhibiting March - July
10 Marble Avenue
Pleasantville, New York 10570
914.953.1763
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