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"My family will be celebrating the holidays from our new weekend house for the first time this winter. We designed the space (with the marvelous Hendricks Churchill) to be a respite from NYC. As such, we were immediately drawn to soothing abstract art. Ali Beletic's serene but joyful work is a foundation for the aesthetic in our house—and similarly serves as my inspiration for this curation. " -EVA CHEN
Ali’s work has been featured as part of Maya Erskine’s curatorial and in Vogue’s curatorial next to Judy Chicago, penned by the brilliant Arden Fanning Andrews & guest curator Tamara Johnson.
“When I saw how Tappan Collective chooses guest curators to put together collections of works, I obviously was drawn to Maya Erskine’s picks,” says Johnson of the Pen15 creator-producer-actor’s selects, including Alexis Arnold’s sold-out Crystallized Books series and Ali Beletic’s Material and the Sensual series.”
Ali has built a studio centered around the ideas of the conversation between the classic and the ancient and the the hyper-modern, throwing parties, and collaboration on a global scale. While the Vanguard Projects studio headquarters is based in North County San Diego. The studio is comprised of thinkers and artisans dedicated to marrying business with visionary and forward thinking creative solutions and expressions working across continents, in many fields and mediums, we are honored and excited to have collaborators across the globe. We are commited to sustainability and our mission of integrity, and visionary development.
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Driven by an unwavering conviction that our humanity is best reflected by the natural environment, Beletic uses air, earth, fire and water in combination with organic materials like metal and wood. Weaving ephemeral, sensory elements like light and sound into her installations, she creates physically immersive experiences.
Her 2015 Illuminated Passage installation in the Mojave Desert guided visitors on a path through a jumble of ancient boulders that seemed to be lit from within, while visitors to her 2013 installation, Pray for Rain, walked a mile through the Sonoran Desert at dusk to encounter rectangular cisterns made of glass and wood filled with rainwater. As the light weakened and the full moon rose, drummers hidden from view played a rhythmic score, filling the rock-rimmed wash with echoing drums.
As a physics student, Beletic found academia’s reliance on constructed knowledge too restrictive, and she longed to find a more open approach to understanding the world. Her interests led her to naturalist and wilderness awareness training with mentors like Tom Brown, Jr. and Jon Young. A child of avid outdoor enthusiasts, Beletic was already comfortable outside, and her naturalist training quickly began to dovetail with the art and music she was making in her studio. Reaching a critical juncture in her practice and inspired by the Earth Art pioneers of the 1960s, such as Nancy Holt, Walter de Maria and Robert Smithson, Beletic left Brooklyn for Arizona. Her subsequent protracted engagement with the wide open desert yielded an ongoing series of artwork situated in remote landscapes, as well as paintings on paper made with ground mineral pigments and functional sculptures modeled on ancient stone fire bowls and other ritualistic objects.
“It’s definitely an unusual part of my story,” Ali Beletic admits of the breadth of her artistic work, which includes sprawling outdoor installations, art directing for film, and music. Her debut record, Legends of These Lands Left to Live, was released in June and has been uncommonly well-received by critics, at least one of whom compared her to James Dean (among a host of living rock legends). And with Beletic, the whole cool-without-caring-about-it thing actually rings true. The Dallas-born singer-songwriter, whose current work reflects her more recent residencies in Joshua Tree and Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, is candid, self-aware, and thoughtful. In other words, her charisma lies completely in the uncalculated.
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“In “Bright Side”, untraditional palettes capture the avant-garde in intriguing hyper-modern ways. Gia Coppola’s “Firework in Napa” dissects the minute spectra that explode with fireworks. Ali Beletic’s “Attenzione” neon sign literally demands attention in a punky, poppy purple.”
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“It’s definitely an unusual part of my story,” Ali Beletic admits of the breadth of her artistic work, which includes sprawling outdoor installations, art directing for film, and music. Her debut record, Legends of These Lands Left to Live, was released in June and has been uncommonly well-received by critics, at least one of whom compared her to James Dean (among a host of living rock legends). And with Beletic, the whole cool-without-caring-about-it thing actually rings true. The Dallas-born singer-songwriter, whose current work reflects her more recent residencies in Joshua Tree and Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, is candid, self-aware, and thoughtful. In other words, her charisma lies completely in the uncalculated.
Cream-colored walls and polished vignettes create a blank canvas to help potential collectors visualize pieces in their own abodes. The opening exhibition, cheekily titled “Offline,” features paintings, sculptures, and textile art by the likes of Fei Li, Firoozeh Neman, Ali Beletic, and more artists whose work plays with materiality and texture. Ever the digital natives, QR codes accompany each exhibited piece to allow potential collectors to learn more about the artwork and the person behind it. In a twist on the record-shop browsing experience, the gallery offers private walk-throughs of its back room by appointment. —Jenna Adrian-Diaz
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From traditional gallery and field work to adventure-driven parties, Beletic’s intention is to evoke wild instincts within the context of the art world. And so the motives such as primeval rituals, vast natural spaces and liberating journeys carry throughout her work, inviting the viewers – or participants – to recreate the experience of their ancestors.
Speaking about her practice, the artist says: “My work deals with the rich history that humanity has in its past. I am constantly trying to create a space or experience where the modern art-goer can be reminded of their own ancestral history – most importantly on a visceral level.”
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From traditional gallery and field work to adventure-driven parties, Beletic’s intention is to evoke wild instincts within the context of the art world. And so the motives such as primeval rituals, vast natural spaces and liberating journeys carry throughout her work, inviting the viewers – or participants – to recreate the experience of their ancestors.
Speaking about her practice, the artist says: “My work deals with the rich history that humanity has in its past. I am constantly trying to create a space or experience where the modern art-goer can be reminded of their own ancestral history – most importantly on a visceral level.”
“A bold piece can stand alone. Ali Beletic’s paintings are perfect for this.”
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Alivenique is the new conceptual brainchild of the musical and visual artist Ali Beletic. Self-described as a “meta-pop-art musical project”, it delves into her unique take on artistic vanguardism, hyper mixing a vast sonic and visual sensual assualt, digging into cinematic narratives alongside post-genre feminine meme able moments, yet deeply underneath translating a pluralist sincerist invitation.
From the outset of her career as an artist and musician, Ali has rebelled against convention, juxtaposing editorial, personal narrative and vanguardism. She produces music, as well as sculpture, environmental works and paintings in conversation with both the music world and the art world as a representation for us to experience, dialogue and celebrate our shared, pluralist and global lineages of humanity. Utilizing the canvas and context of the music world to create an atmosphere and spirit where we can broadly dialogue between a more modern “self-aware” and informed version of ourselves, and a deeper, more latent archaic sense of humanity that is intertwined with the natural world.
Emma Crowther: The library, which was actually an afterthought, has turned out to be my favorite room. It’s got personality—a combination of custom designed furniture by Croft House LA, one-off eclectic vintage pieces such as the 120-year-old Iranian rug, books on surfing, design, architecture, and general ephemera, intentionally chosen for more than decoration. Two pieces of art stand out: “Pray for Surf” by Ali Beletic which we sourced via Tappan and reminds us of the simple things in life, alongside a more complex original print series by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier.
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“Oversized abstract, art helps to add a contemporary art gallery feel to any room”, shared Hoffpauir. “incorporating a larger statement piece like this helps to balance out the oversize sofa and add visual interest.” An original painting, like Teagan’s, can command top dollar, you can also shop out large-scale prints to get the look for less.
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Ali’s work was featured in AN Interior Issue 24 announcing their annual Top 50 list of best interior architects and designers, in a home re-designed by chic designer Shannon McLaren of Prairie and architect Denise Xagorarakis of Xag Designs’ “It was also important that large blank walls be included to display the couple’s art collection, including an abstract work by Ali Beletic that hangs over the leather sectional by Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto, and Ola Rune.”
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Luxe Magazine describes Ali's Neon Primitivism Series as "bringing the party" as the works celebrate a fusion of unexpected gestures with diverse materials like clays, pigments, and spray paint to create a signature glow. About the work, Jen Samson shares that "the juxtaposition of old and new really draws [her] into this subtle yet vibrant piece by Ali Beletic. There is a joyfulness about this that plays to [one's] visual senses.
