Dilek Işıksel

Dilek Yetkin Işıksel was born in Ankara in 1948. She graduated from the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts Academy with a master’s degree in 1972. She studied painting at the workshop of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu. She then taught painting and art history in several high schools until 1996. Since 1997, she has painted at her workshop in Kuledibi, Istanbul. Işıksel had her first exhibition with two friends in 1972. Since then, she has had 23 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 60 group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. In 2002, Işıksel celebrated her 30 years of active working as a painter. The theme of her paintings is the magnificent city of Istanbul, which consists of Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman influences that create a rich cultural synthesis. Her compositions suggest the idea of mysticism of the universe, an abstracted vision of Istanbul.

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