I am a visual artist based in Istanbul, Türkiye, working across painting, printmaking, drawing, and ceramics. Grounded in painterly thinking and an embodied material process, my practice engages with the relationship between psyche, body, and perception, in relation to the social and emotional structures we inhabit.
I am drawn to processes that require both patience and immediacy. I want to hold space for both modes - and more. I approach making as a way of staying with uncertainty and sustaining liveliness. My work is driven by an interest in psychological thresholds: moments or phases of transition where identity, belonging, and perception are unstable or in flux. I return repeatedly to themes of liminality and rites of passage as ways of examining how groups and individuals internalize or resist social expectations, power structures, and emotional norms. Rather than presenting resolved stories, I am interested in states of becoming, emotional contradiction, and the quiet negotiations that take place within the self.
In recent years, my practice has shifted toward learning, teaching, and collaboration as modes of inquiry, mostly outweighing solitary studio production. In my work with high school students, I treat teaching as a shared, process-based inquiry rather than a transfer of skills. Curiosity, care, and attentiveness build worlds where uncertainty is not something to overcome, but something to work within; allowing making, sensing, and thinking to unfold together.
EDUCATION -
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
