Buket Savci Beautiful Aliens at Kravets Wehby Gallery NYC

Kravets Wehby Gallery is pleased to announce Buket Savci’s solo exhibition, Beautiful Aliens. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, October 17, 2024, 6-8PM. In this new body of work, Buket’s worlds expand and intertwine.

Now that Buket has spent years growing her life in Brooklyn, she realizes New York City is made of survivalists. The level of resilience required for the human experience is greater here. As part of her practice, Buket yearns to see the good in people and paint them in an adoring light. For her sumptuous paintings, she gathers friends, friends of friends, and strangers and immortalizes a moment of careful interdependence. Her goal is to create a space where basic needs are met and prejudice is forbidden. She asks them to wear bright colors and patterns to ward off negativity. Buket also asks participants to bring a something that comforts them, such as a stuffed animal, that becomes integral to the ecosystem of the pile. The spiral of people holds their dreams, hopes, and vulnerabilities while new connections are made.