Arizona Artist a Day

Because of my training, I tend to see photography as painting – starting with an awareness of the flatness, the surface, from which all pictures issue. I favor pictures that recognize a tension between compositional flatness, patterns or conflicting space and the depicted. Photography and pictures should comment on or reenact perception itself, rather than serve only as documentation. I believe it’s part of my training that places the acting visual forces in a photograph on a par with, or superseding, what happens to be documented. I live in Phoenix, AZ and have been taking photographs fairly regularly for the last 4 yrs.

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Untitled

Phoenix Driveway

Phoenix Shopping Center

McDowell Road

Phoenix Mall

Artist Statement:

I express my spiritual longing for creative ideas through my art by fusing colors, lines, and movements together to inspire a meaning and emotions worth exploring. My work explores values of love, happiness, melancholy, life experiences, sadness and cultural heritages that are parts of our uniqueness. My work uses acrylics on canvas with vibrant nontraditional colors. I like to construct an emotional art full of paradoxes: the collusion of melancholy and happiness, love and solitude, the decorative and the meaningful, ecstasy and sorrow, hope and despair.

My aim is to inspire those who can see and feel my work to look more carefully at the worlds inside of them, to discover beauty in unusual places.

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Group shows:

Chocolate & Art Show, The MonOrchird, Phoenix, AZ Sep 2016

Traces of the Lucid Symbols, 4 artists, Bosnian Cultural Center, Tuzia, Bosnia and Herzegovina Nov 2014

Traces of the Lucid Symbols, 4 artists, Bosnian Cultural Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina June 2014

Chocolate & Art Show, The MonOrchird, Phoenix AZ Sep 2016

Lucido Members Exhibition, Hotel Lukavac, Lukavac, Bosnia nad Herzegovina Feb 2012

Lcuido Members Exhibition, Cultural and Info Center, Srebrenik, Bosnia and Hersegovina Marc 2012

Solo Exhibitions:

Colored Verses, National Museum of BiH, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nov 2015

What are the colors of Rumi'a Poems?, Open House, Scottsdale, AZ Sept 2013

Symbols Painted by Sand Vol 2, Squash Blossom, Phoenix, AZ Sep 2013

Symbols Painted by Sand Vol 1, Bock Hotel, Vienna, Austria Apr 2012

Symbols Painted by Sand Vol 1, Zetra Olympic Hall, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Jun 2011

Alma Telibecirevic, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, studied painting and education at the Classical Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, has exhibited in Bosnia, Austria and the United States. Lives, creates and loves in two continents.

As said:

Like art, playing ball begins with a solitary act, by taking a ball in one’s hand and throwing it. Like art, a ball travels from its starting point and travels towards the social, the realm of nature and man. One can never repeat a throw exactly, for the spherical shape of a ball does not allow us to keep it under control.

A.B.Oliva

Telibecirevic’s work has something to do with the truth. In order to be around and about the truth one must have some sort of criteria. Miss Telibecirevic is a painter. I would say that her form of painting is an internal search, while her work is a search for the external. Here, internal search would refer to the states and the process of the world of painting and painting as art, while an external criterion (non-painting media) is the text. This concerns the question of the picture and references, in other words, finding a way for establishing references. Painting is a reference to an artist’s work, while her new opus gives a new visual discourse for painting, i.e. reference.

One more time, her exhibit features pieces of art through different mediums: acrylic and sand, while inspiration has been drown from Rumi’s poetry. I believe that it is necessary to reflect upon Rumi because it is one of the most widely read poets in America and is seen as a new philosophical force. He deals with human condition, personal growth and development in a very clear and direct fashion. The world of Rumi is neither exclusively the world of a Sufi, nor the world of a Hindu; neither a Jew, nor a Christian; it is rather a state of an evolved human who is not bound by cultural limitations.

Equally, trodden paths do not bind Telibecirevic’s work. She creates by playing with artistic materials in tune with the notion of freedom and affinity without prejudices. At first glance, Telibecirevic’s work can be divided into couple of periods: “Symbols painted by sand vol. 1”, “Symbols painted by sand vol. 2” and "What are the colors of Rumi's poems?". Every opus appears as a deconstruction of the one that preceded it. Each individual work, at the level of visual presentation, can be intentional (Dervish, Elephants, Red Sunset, Abstraction, Birds, Tree and so forth) but it is always extensional in relation to painting and art.

This expression of art is not just the achievement of a relation as it is seen in the ‘traditional’ form of art; it is rather a correspondence between the artwork and the world of art among other worlds of culture. By successfully keeping track of the contemporary developments in fine arts, Miss Telibecirevic offers another intriguing means of presentation while gives us an opportunity to look at the objects on the paintings and to interpret them infinitely .

Dragana Kantarevic, anthropologist Belgrade, Serbia