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In her first exhibition with the gallery, Hayal Pozanti presents a new series of paintings, sculptures and an animated GIF sculpture based on her personal alphabet, ‘Instant Paradise.’ Initially developed as source material to generate abstract forms, this lexicon of shapes has now transformed into a personally standardized encryption system which operates through a digital typeface. Mining online resources for data on the impact of technology on our social and personal lives, Pozanti acts as a digital to analog convertor which preserves information that could be lost or altered in the cloud. Her use of traditional media and handcraft speak to an interest in the role of chance and imperfection in an increasingly mechanized landscape of artistic production.
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Hayal Pozanti was born in Istanbul in 1983 and now lives in New York City. She has an MFA from Yale University and a BA from Sabanci University. She was featured in Prospect.3: the New Orleans Biennial and is in the collections of JP Morgan, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. Pozanti has exhibited in Berlin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Milan and New York. Her solo show ‘Deep Learning’ will open in November 2015 at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut. Pozanti is represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco.