Hayal Pozanti's Abstract Paintings Open Timothy Taylor's New Tribeca Space

Timothy Taylor's new 6,000-square-foot gallery at 74 Leonard Street in Tribeca will be inaugurated with an exhibition of paintings by Hayal Pozanti, marking her first solo show with the gallery after being announced for representation earlier this year. Pozanti (b. 1983, Istanbul, Turkey) creates large-scale abstract works using brightly colored oil sticks blended with her fingers. For a decade, she developed an alphabet of 31 glyphs to translate technological impact into geometric paintings, but her focus has shifted to climate-related disaster and subconscious exploration. New works begin with en-plein-air sketches from her travels or rural Vermont home, which she abstracts on canvas, seeking a trancelike connection between body and mind. Her symbolic language has evolved into biomorphic forms resembling waterfalls, forests, mushrooms, and flowers. A key influence is Dorothy Bryant's 1971 science fiction novella 'The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You,' about a utopian community designing reality from dreams. The exhibition title comes from Robinson Jeffers' poem 'The World for a Mirror,' reflecting on landscape as a mirror for the inner self. Paintings like 'Off To Dream Farther Away' (2023) use a sensual palette of golden, apricot, and rose pink, suggesting transcendent communion with the sublime. Pozanti's verdant world compels viewers to imagine adapting to the earth's rhythms rather than forcing the earth to live within ours.