Belgin Yücelen

While enhancing our imaginations and consciousness, Belgin Yücelen’s art remains true to the desire to create meaning and beauty in subtle simplicity. With her paintings, sculptures, prints, films, poetry and theater, she creates a fictional world beyond the existing to conjure unrealized possibilities to challenge imaginations. Traces of her previous years in Turkey appear in her artwork placing it at the fascinating edge where East and West meet and ancient and modern coincide. She has been recognized by organizations such as the Colorado Creative Industries, Boulder Country Arts Alliance, Moon and Stars Grant, Clark Hulings Fund, Hemera Foundation, and National Sculpture Society and has shown her work nationally and internationally. Her work has been widely publicized. She founded House of Serein in 2019 as a creative space for community use and studios for artists in Boulder, CO. Artist Residency at La Macina di San Cresci, Italy in 2021 and in the Arctic Circle in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway in October 2024.

I am a Turkish-American multimedia artist. I create video, installation, sculpture, photography, theater, painting and print drawing on a range of present-day issues and cultural and historical references.I create to pursue myself and evoke a form of consciousness. With each story I tell, I aim to start a communication through which I meet with my viewer, and other viewers meet within the space art creates, dissolving the separation between us, and across time, distance and culture.I create imaginary worlds that help conjure unrealized possibilities. In my art, I use a soft voice, almost an understatement with silences, and pauses which create spaces of ambiguity where the viewer can escape from the limitations and complexities of a well-defined subject. By presenting a mere hint of the story, I evaluate the possibility of art to provoke seeking for emotions. Through the act of revealing or concealing, similar to a fenced garden which partly obstructs the view, the viewer stays longer to find out what is hidden behind. This also empowers them to imagine and make their own aesthetic choices and personal interpretations.