I am a visual artist based in Istanbul, working across painting, printmaking, drawing, and ceramics. My practice is grounded in painterly thinking and an embodied engagement with materials. I am interested in how body, psyche, and perception move within the structures and relationships that bind, protect, and constrain us, shaping the architecture of power and belonging. I’m drawn to moments of transition, thresholds where agency and belonging become unsettled. Especially in the awkward and charged moments when control slips, when the body knows something before language does, when systems begin to falter, when something cracks open and cannot easily be closed again. I stay with the emotional contradictions and quiet negotiations that move within the self and its relational fields, where intimacy, solidarity, and authority are continuously negotiated.
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MFA Painting and Printmaking / Yale University School of Art 2013
BA Studio Arts and Art History / Brandeis University 2010
Contact for inquiries and collaborations: rominameric@gmail.com
