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Public Artist Talk with Bahar Yurukoglu @Montserrat

Exploring the role of light in both natural and constructed landscapes, Bahar Yurukoglu inventively combines photography, sculpture and moving image into indoor and outdoor installations. On view in Montserrat's 301 Gallery through Sept. 21.  http://www.iambahar.com/

Public welcome. For more information visit http://www.montserrat.edu/galleries/public-programs/ or contact savery.kelley@montserrat.edu or 978.867.9624.

Bahar Yurukoglu: Melting North

August 24 – September 22, 2013
Reception: Wednesday, September 18, 6-8pm

Montserrat College of Art is pleased to welcome Boston area artist Bahar Yurukoglu to the 301 Gallery in her first solo exhibition, Melting North. The artist describes her work as a merging of light, color and space. The exhibition investigates how light interacts with the natural and manmade landscape through the combination of photography, sculpture and moving image. 

The photographs in Melting North were taken during an artist residency completed in Iceland where Yurukoglu collected scraps of brightly colored Plexiglass and arranged them into still lifes documenting the extreme Icelandic landscapes. 

In Melting North, Yurukoglu blurs the lines between the two and three-dimensional. A moving projection of images created in Wyoming earlier this year will be paired with pieces of Plexiglass protruding out from the wall to form a site-specific installation, entitled Parhelion. The result is a vivid interior landscape, which the artist has named a neoscape. The viewer will be able to walk throughout this space and become a part of the piece; bringing to light questions such as, what is real and what is not. 

Yurukoglu’s work inspires the viewer to take pause and reflect. Not only because of the thoughtfulness behind the compositions, but due to the multidimensionality of each piece, which echo our complex connection to the natural environment. 

Yurukoglu graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY in 2003 with a degree in Photography. In 2011, she received a Master of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Interrelated Media. In 2012, Yurukoglu participated in an Artist in Residence program at SIM, the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists in Reykjavik, Iceland and in 2013 at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Brush Creek, Wyoming. 

More information can be found at: Iambahar.com
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