Motif: Unspoken Language (RSVP by 9/6/22)
In-Person Artist Talk with Hale Ekinci
Join multi-disciplinary artist and educator, Hale Ekinci, for her artist talk featuring recent works created during her Artist Residency at Spudnik. Hale’s research includes exploring the meaning behind visual patterns often found in Ottoman and Turkish textiles, tiles, and clothing as well as photographic archives, especially of immigrants in both the US and Turkey. Using the found motifs, she creates silent stories on both paper and found house textiles. In this interactive talk, she will share her research, her in progress work, process, and traditions. She encourages the audience to participate with their own motifs and family stories.
This is an in-person event, masks and proof of vaccination are required. To ensure capacity limits, we are requiring advanced registration.
RSVP through Eventbrite by 9/6/22 to reserve your spot!
Artist Bio
Hale Ekinci (b. 1984 in Karamursel, Turkey) is a multidisciplinary Turkish artist, designer, and educator based in Chicago. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago and is currently an Associate Professor of Art & Design at North Central College. Exploring personal history, cultural identity, gender politics, and craft traditions, her works vary from videos to embroidery paintings embellished with vibrant colors, patterns, and autobiographical relics. She was recently a Facebook Chicago Artist in Resident. Her work has been exhibited nationally at EXPO Chicago, Studio Gang, Co-Prosperity, One After 909, Woman Made Gallery, South Bend Museum of Art, Koehnline Museum of Art, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, and Queens College Art Center. Her videos have been screened internationally, including New York City, Berlin, Warsaw, and Jerusalem. She completed residencies at ACRE, Jiwar Barcelona, Momentum Worldwide Berlin, Elsewhere Museum, and Chicago Artist Coalition.