Ceyda Oskay (Turkey)
Visual Artist
Ceyda Oskay is an artist who has exhibited her work in India, Kuwait, Turkey, Greece, Iceland, USA, UK, and Ireland. She has also given workshops at Oxford University, the Istanbul Biennial, and participated in the Liverpool Alternative Biennial. She has an MA in Contemporary Art Practice, Public Sphere from the Royal College of Art. She works across various art mediums : from painting to photography and installation but the main themes she works on are migration and locations and her work frequently includes experimentation and interaction. She was recently a visiting artist at the Veer Narmad South Gujarat University – Fine Arts Department, where she taught Painting and Sculpture Students, as part of the Something Useful Project. Oskay was also a journalist and has various publications to her name. These include, a book chapter on the social significance of weaving in Arabia in the book compilation, All Things Arabia, by Brill Publications. She is also an aid worker, and designer of textiles products.
www.instagram.com/ceyda.oskay.art
Migration Museum Residency, March 2019https://www.migrationmuseum.org/introducing-ceyda-jayda-oskay-our-next-room-to-breathe-artist-in-residence/
The blog/interview about my work:https://www.migrationmuseum.org/textiles-and-lullabies-ceyda-oskays-residency-in-the-art-studio/
The museum exhibition on migration to the UK:https://www.migrationmuseum.org/exhibition/room-to-breathe/
Nude Study in Color
By Ceyda Oskay, Turkey
The artwork is a painting that is a study from behind of a nude man sitting. As it is multi-colored, the race and ethnicity of the man cannot really be identified. The colorful style was inspired by German Expressionism, Impressionism, and Fauvism. Around 35 colors are used in the image. The viewer also starts to see the body as shapes and colors. The man is holding an object and looking at something that we do not know of – and this creates a sense of wonder into the painting. The viewer is lead to imagine what the man is looking at. The painting was made when the artist was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Title: Nude Study in Color
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: Approx. 50 x 75 CM
Year: 2002
Price USD. 430
Enquiry: www.instagram.com/ceyda.oskay.art
