Neon primitivism
Run Among the Thunder
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
86” x 72”
Featured in Vogue and Instagram Fashion Editor Eva Chen’s new Home on Architectural Digest.
Moonlit & Embers
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
72” x 60”
Neon Markings
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
60” x 72”
The Greatest
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
70” x 70”
Flower Market / Campesino
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
Size: 60" x 36" / 152,4 x 91,44 cm / 60" x 36" / 152,4 x 91,44 cm
Jungle Century
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
72” x 55”
Shimmering Refractive
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
86” x 72”
Flowering Grassfields
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
72” x 60”
Jet Jet
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
72” x 55”
Beletic’s Neon Primitivism series is a natural extension of the artist’s commitment to primitivist ideology and ‘bringing the party and the fun’. This new series celebrates the canvas and painting as a form with the power to transfer primitivism, sensuality and emotion to a space in a modern return to Ab Ex style, mixing the ultra mattes of Mexican folk art by sourcing untraditional pigments and incorporating clays, botanical dyes and oils, and pointing to forms that enlight the viewer towards the multiple directions of cave paintings, the new york school, ceremonial body paints, line work, weathered artifacts, Charles Olsen’s Archaic Post Modern and pop art, celebrating the marriage of archaic and contemporary tradition, sensuality and artistic expression.
Jet Jet
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
72” x 55”
Beletic’s Neon Primitivism series is a natural extension of the artist’s commitment to primitivist ideology and ‘bringing the party and the fun’. This new series celebrates the canvas and painting as a form with the power to transfer primitivism, sensuality and emotion to a space in a modern return to Ab Ex style, mixing the ultra mattes of Mexican folk art by sourcing untraditional pigments and incorporating clays, botanical dyes and oils, and pointing to forms that enlight the viewer towards the multiple directions of cave paintings, the new york school, ceremonial body paints, line work, weathered artifacts, Charles Olsen’s Archaic Post Modern and pop art, celebrating the marriage of archaic and contemporary tradition, sensuality and artistic expression.
Area Shift
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
72” x 86”
It’s On
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
50” x 62”
In the Wilds & Everyday Tropicalia
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
60” x 50” | 60” x 50”
Origins
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
60” x 50’
Travel Sport
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
60” x 50’
Holler
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
36” x 49”
Interview
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
48” x 36”
We Set Out at Dawn
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
86” x 72”
Journaling the Publications
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
60” x 48”
Materialism & The Sensual
Botanical Dye, Acrylic, and Charcoal on Canvas
72” x 60”
Subculture Unconventional
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
48” x 33”
Cut Out
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
40” x 30”
Run Among the Thunder
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
86” x 72”
Featured in Architectural Digest // Curator & Collector: Vogue Fashion Editor Eva Chen
Her directness of emotion communicated through primal, rugged gestures, juxtaposed with an integration of ancient philosophies explores the thin line between symbolic totems, anthropomorphic figuration, gestural abstraction and a modern pop sensibility. Her confident and rule shattering sensibility pulls on us to be 21st century rebels once again and to seek wildness, experience, humanity, and mythos.
Au Debut
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
48” x 36”
The colorful explosion of modern neon colors and primitive forms in Neon Primitivism is a natural extension of both Ali’s primitivist ideology and her commitment to rock n roll. This new series celebrates the canvas and painting as a form with the power to transfer primitivism, sensuality and emotion to a space in a modern return to Ab Ex style, mixing the ultra mattes of Mexican folk art with earthy clays, and vibrant charcoals and oils, and pointing to forms that enlight the viewer towards the multiple directions of cave paintings, the new york school, ceremonial body paints, line work, weathered artifacts, Charles Olsen’s Archaic Post Modern and pop art.
Tropical Storm
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
48” x 36”
Infinite Drift
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
72” x 86”
Life of the Party
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
48" x 72"
Urban Jungle
Handmade Botanical Dye, Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
72” x 60”
Ali’s work across multiple mediums has always been founded conceptually in both her nature and survival skills studies as well as her ‘bringing the party and the fun’. It is here that Ali’s conceptual work led naturally to the crossover that would lead her to explore paintings based on sensuality and dimension - the feeling, the experience and the space they create. It was here that she derived the process of working with clays, dried plant materials, botanical dyes, and paints made of finely crushed rare minerals and gems, to explore glowing mattes and chalky earthy textures. This follows in the tradition of her prior sculptural work (almost an artistic take on experimental archeology) which traces primitive technologies, and works with the experiential and the sensual - i.e. hand building mahogany and glass rain catchments, working with fire as a sculptural element, exploring artifact creation using primitive tools and techniques as a means to explore primitivism, lighting up a boulder strewn desert for invitees to walk through, and even building a surfboard from Tule reeds.
Vivid Mythos
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
72" x 48"
Icons
Clay, Pigment, and Acrylic on Canvas
48" x 72"
The New Buzz
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Charcoal and Oil on Canvas
60" x 48"
Her directness of emotion communicated through primal, rugged gestures, juxtaposed with an integration of ancient philosophies explores the thin line between symbolic totems, anthropomorphic figuration, gestural abstraction and a modern pop sensibility. Her confident and rule shattering sensibility pulls on us to be 21st century rebels once again and to seek wildness, experience, humanity, and mythos.
Waterfall
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
72" x 48"
Nomadic Idols
Pigment and Clay on Canvas
36" x 48"
Cenote
Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
72" x 60"
Badlands
Clay, Pigmen, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
60" x 48"
Desert Ciel
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
48" x 36"
In Mexico
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
60" x 48"
Ruins
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
60" x 48"
Sunrise Ceremony
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
24" x 18"
Origins of the Night Ceremony
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
24" x 18"
And the Air
Clay, Pigment, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
72" x 48"