Opening Reception: Thursday, April 28, 5-8 pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, May 21, 4 pm
Closing Reception follows

BLUE MOUNTAIN GALLERY is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of recent work by Gulgun Aliriza. In a series of still-life, landscape and portrait paintings and works on paper, Aliriza often combines elements from each category into a single composition. This will be the artist’s third exhibition at the gallery.

Gulgun Aliriza’s paintings are studies in color, surface and geometry that celebrate the beauty of light and form. Her creative process is primarily inspired by direct observation that she then expresses in painterly terms. She explores abstract divisions of the pictorial space, the value structures, and the formal color relationships. The still life arrangements were set up in her studio where she became fascinated with exploring the relationship of objects to one another and to their surrounding space. Some of her landscape paintings are done outdoors from immediate surroundings, but most are completed looking through her studio window as she captures the abstract elements of changing light and shifting colors. www.gulgunaliriza.com

Image: Biophilia Series:Apple Blossems,  oil on canvas, 16×12 inches