London-based artist Selma Parlour’s beautifully crafted oil paintings with soft, luminescent colours and pencil-like oil-made contours will be shown for the first time in Turkey at Pi Artworks Istanbul. Parlour (born 1976) is known for her meticulously painted canvases, which look more like prints than oil paintings. They often employ contemporary reworkings of abstract and minimalist techniques and a Rothko-esque coming together of units of color. The focus of the exhibition in Karaköy’s Mumhane Caddesi is a group of three paintings from her new series Mirror.
Selma Parlour, Smack Dab IV, oil on linen, 2019.
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
