Inaugurating the London and New York gallery’s new 6,000 square-foot Tribeca space, designed by architect Markus Dochantschi and Studio MDA, Hayal Pozanti has filled the dynamic white box with colorful, shapely landscapes. A 2011 Yale MFA grad, the Istanbul-born artist draws inspiration from the current location of her home and studio in Vermont and her concerns for climate control and environmental issues to make paintings and works on paper that celebrate the beauty of nature.
The nine new paintings on view in her solo show “The World for a Mirror” offer a look at natural landscapes through the mind’s eye of an artist. Exaggerating the natural contours of mountains, skies, plants and trees, Pozanti applies a variety of shapes from a personal vocabulary of organic forms. Stimulated by the natural world that surrounds the artist in her rural realm and by such modern art forerunners as Jean Arp and Wassily Kandinsky, Pozanti presents a jubilant vision of the environment that’s humming with amoeba-like shapes.
