2008
Woodcut                                             

Aysel Miman                           
Residence: Izmir, Konak, Turkey
Birthplace: Izmir, Konak, Turkey

In my opinion, abstract art is a contemporary expression. If an artist wants to be an artist of her age, she should have great knowledge, besides ability, and sensiblility. Understanding the idea and the life style of the past, and especially the present, is a must in abstract art—because all of them are a matter of concept. Abstract art is the premonition of concepts. Creating forms is as abstract as thinking over it. Creating forms is as abstract thinking over it. My works are of a geometrical composition, emphasizing the expression mediums of the ‘International Association of Art’, such as colour, texture, and line.

The forms in space are for reflecting the belief that they are suffiecnt within themselves, without requiring an external meaing. I invite to believe in the shapes, decisive and measurable.

My work ‘Untitled’ [5.4 x 2.8cm], is a miniature woodcut print that is the first of an edition of twelve.

I create my prints parallel to my paintings by abtracting. I use the tools of artistic expression to emphasize my works, and invite the viewer to believe the shapes that can be measured by forms on a geomtric space. Rather than creating prints on a subject, I live, and enable a situation that has art as a subject, to live.

A member of the young generation of Turkish artists, Aysel Miman—painter, printmaker, and performing artist—was born in 1976, in Izmir, Turkey. She studied art in the Painting Department of the Faculty of Education, at The Dokuz Eylül University, graduating in 2000, and taught Art at a state school from 2000–02. In 2007, the art critics Ahmet Mert & Ayça Güzel, highlighted her exhibition, ‘Distant/Near Images’, the latter in an article titled ‘Colour, Line, and Texture as an aesthetics exploration: Aysel Miman Paintings’ for ‘Artist Magazine’. Primarily working from her studio, she is an active member of the UNESCO-AIAP International Plastic Arts Association [UPSD], and her paintings reside within many private gallery and corporate collections.

Education
Graduate, Painting Department, Faculty of Education, The Dokuz Eylül University [2000]
Graduate, İzmir Kız Lisesi, İzmir, Turkey [1995]

2008
‘Sonsuzluktaki Soyut Devinimler’ [‘Abstract Movements in Eternity’], Solo Exhibition, Galeri Artist Çukurcuma, Istanbul, Turkey
‘Naestved International Exhibition of Contemporary Mini Square Prints’ [Curated by Torben Soeborg], grafisk vaerksted\NAESTVED The Print Studio, Roennebaeksholm Arts & Culture Center, Naestved, Denmark

2007
‘Distant/Near Images’, Solo Exhibition, Galeri Artist Çukurcuma, Istanbul, Turkey
9th Annual Abstraction Juried Online International Art Exhibition [Juried by Larry Bradshaw], Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska, United States [Special Recognition Merit Award]
17th Istanbul Art Fair, TÜYAP, UPSD Art Gellery, Maçka, Istanbul, Turkey
2nd International Buca Education Faculty Visual Arts [Curated by Bedri Karayağmurlar], İzmir Biennial, İzmir, Turkey