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THE WORK OF SIBEL KOCABASI,
SHOWN AT THE
"3RD BIENNIAL ''ARTISTS OF ART SALON'' EXHIBITION" EXHIBITION
SIBEL KOCABASI HAS PRESENTED AT THE FOLLOWING ART SALON:
Click/Tap to see their Salon presentation
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ARTISTS STATEMENT
Sibel Kocabasi is a multidisciplinary visual artist, working in painting, staged photography, and installations. Her art addresses contemporary social concerns: from the deteriorating natural environment, migration, violence against women, across cultures, including the suppression of female identity and the recent awakening of feminine power and confidence. In her artworks, she utilizes diverse media such as traditional rugs, found objects, emergency survival blankets, and fibers.
Kocabasi was born in northwest Turkey and raised in Istanbul; she lives and works in South Florida, USA, and Istanbul, Turkey. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Turkish Traditional Arts (rug-kilim design, natural dyes, conservation and restoration of textiles, and illumination of manuscripts) from the Marmara University of Fine Arts in Istanbul. She received her Master’s in Fine Arts degree (painting) from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, in 2005.
Kocabasi is the recipient of the 2010 South Florida Cultural Consortium’s Visual and Media Artists Fellowship and the 2006 Hector Ubertalli Visual Arts Award. She has ten years of teaching experience in visual arts; she is a faculty member at Armory Art Center, and has taught art at Florida Atlantic University, Palm Beach State College, Light House Art Center, and the Very Special Arts. Her artwork is in numerous private collections including the Beth DeWoody Collection and The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami. It has been exhibited in national and international venues including the 10th International Cairo Biennial, Tomio Koyama, Japan, International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, Texas, and Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey. It can currently be seen in "Hand and I: Mending the World One Stitch at a Time" at FAU's Schmidt Gallery through February 1, 2020. |
SIBEL KOCABASI'S ARTWORK |
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Beacon I |
Embroided with emergency blankets and white trash bags on a wool rug |
24" H x 24"W |
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NFS |
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Beacon II |
Embroided with emergency blankets and white trash bags on a wool rug |
24" H x 24" W |
(An unexpected error occurred: #47262)
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The Hug |
Embroided on old Turkish rug with emergency blankets and cotton |
65" H x 65" W |
$5,000 |
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Walking Together |
60" H x 80" W |
Acrylic Paint on Emergency Blanket |
$750 |
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