Aylin Kanzık’s Biography (1974-Present)

Aylin Kanzık’s painting goes back to her days in TED Ankara Elementary School. Her first teacher was Cemal Guvenc, a landscape painter who chooses the nature as the subject of his paintings. She took classes from him between 1984 & 1986 where she learned how to use the paper and mix colors in creative structure. From 1987 to 1990 she worked with another well known artist Gonen Kabalak experimenting ink, oil and gouache.

In 1990 her first experimental exhibit “Flowers” ,ink experiment, was exhibited at TED Ankara Koleji High School in Ankara, Turkey.

After high school she attended Hacettepe University’s painting and graphical design programs while studying Business Administration and Management.

In 2004 she moved to New York City. There she attended the School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Program. Studied Mixed Media and advanced Acrylic Painting Techniques with Roberto Juarez, acrylic medium experiments with Seth Michael Forman, painting between realism and abstraction with Andrew Castrucci. She started using different kinds of materials like Japanese papers, clay and sand oil pen as layers on her paintings.

She is also influenced by pop-art artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Romero Britto, etc. With both pop-art and the cubist movement, she founded her own artistic expression by mixing them with energetic pop art images. With this new perspective she received many good credits.

Her artwork conveys an honesty that reflects her desire to use colors which absorb happiness. Her technique includes forming up the concepts by using bright colors with separation lines, an extreme movement of a figure.

Recently she moved back to Turkey and opened her studio in Istanbul. Currently, she is working on her new set of paintings called “Voyage”.