I am so very happy this Forum has been created. As asked for such a forum in a former life and now it's a reality.

Thank you so much TC!

from www.feministezine.com/feminist/TurkishWomenArtists.html

The introduction from the above article:


Tomur Atagök

In the course of globalisation and given our present standpoint between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, everything is subject to re-evaluation and change. Both contemporary issues and universal value systems have forced a re-examination of our ideas at a time when questions about the center and the peripheries, the local as opposed to the universal, East and West, part and whole are being raised. Within the context of culture and an opening of its borders and disciplines, the creative process , and the conditions as well as the politics that shape it, are bringing to our attention the work of non-western participants both minorities and the once-silent majorities. The reassessment of the issues around artistic activity has been raised by many people who would not previously have had a voice in the making of contemporary art. Following the airing of many issues concerning human rights and the development of policies for equal opportunities for all, regardless of race, country, religion and sex, women artists, curators and museum people are focusing on the near-absence of women artists in the mainstream of arts.

Art and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Turkey
Turgut Zaim

http://www.atamanhotel.com/museums/ankara-resim2.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/anrt/anrt_1.htm

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resim:Turgut_Zaim_yorukler_koyu.jpg#file






Gizem Saka


http://www.istanbulgallery.com/news.asp

Thank you Ros. Gizem Saka is a female artist and I like her work featured on the link.

Ece Clarke is an artist who was born in İstanbul and educated in Turkey and Germany. She later lived in the Far East and the Middle East and is now a resident of London. Being involved in and affected by different cultures at each stage, her work concerns itself with the reality of existence and is connected to Ece’s other interests in science and the universe, the elements of nature and other naturally occurring forms.
Her “Three-Dimensional Painting Exhibition” is hosted at Suna Çokgür Ilıcak Art Gallery at the Foreign Ministry. The venue of the exhibition is sort of quirk of fate as Clarke says the triangle of politics, culture and religion are central to her development as an artist.

There are many descriptions made by prominent critics for what she has been doing. One of her colleagues explains her work as “matchmaking between the aesthetic and the knowledge of things.

ZAMAN

http://hkgursoz.8m.com/Galeri.htm Gallery of work by Hatice K Gursoz



Foreign Ministry art gallery curator Gürsöz devotes herself to promoting the Turkish art of painting abroad
Sunday, January 7, 2007

Gürsöz, who became the first-ever Turkish female painter to meet Syrian art lovers with a traveling exhibition she opened in December in Aleppo and then in Damascus, is nowadays busy with preparations for the third leg of her exhibition to take place on Jan. 10-17 in the Jordanian capital of Amman.

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=63342

Delighted to see that Turkish artist Ece Clarke has an exhibition in London at present: Routes II at the Waterhouse & Dodd gallery (26 Cork Street) shows some beautiful examples of her work as part of a joint exhibition with 15 other artists. The same gallery will be exhibiting her work in Abu Dhabi at the Art Fair in November, and Space Studios is showing her work at the Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair in December. More details are given on her website: http://www.ececlarke.com