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Hayal Pozanti: Pleasures Newly Found

Hayal Pozanti: Pleasures Newly Found

April 15-May 31, 2025

Jessica Silverman proudly presents “Pleasures Newly Found,” a solo exhibition, opening April 15, 2025, featuring new oil paintings from the mind and hands of Hayal Pozanti. An investigator of human communication systems, Pozanti delves into the sensuality and embodied intelligence of being human through painting without the intermediary of brushes.

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Hayal Pozanti
Your Lips to the World, 2025
Oil stick on linen
80 x 120 inches / 203.2 x 304.8 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, Your Lips to the World
Born in Istanbul and educated at Yale, Pozanti has created a virtuoso style of painting using her fingers to blend colors and generate curvaceous forms, which congeal into alluring representations of the natural world. As an antidote to the feeling of being trapped in screen-dominated, machine-made spaces, Pozanti’s paintings offer fluid environments where viewers can absorb the vitality of an imaginative wilderness. As the artist explains, “When we sit in front of computers, our bodies hunch, and we move only our eyes and maybe our fingers. I wanted to step away from the internet and paint with my entire body and all my senses.”
Hayal Pozanti
From What We Cannot Hold, The Stars are Made, 2025
Oil stick on linen
80 x 120 inches / 203.2 x 304.8 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, From What We Cannot Hold, The Stars are Made
Hayal Pozanti
I Thought I Heard You Whisper, 2025
Oil stick on linen
80 x 120 inches / 203.2 x 304.8 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, I Thought I Heard You Whisper
An Invisible Cloak to Mind Your Life (2025) hums with the sounds of its creation. The large-scale nocturne is so full of movement that we can sense the physical exertions of the artist standing before the canvas in her rural Vermont studio. The physicality of the mountains, sea, and trees whispers: “Feel my awe.” Here, as in much of Pozanti’s work, the visual becomes tactile, and the tactile flows like a symphony. In other words, the gyrating landscape bears witness to a sublime synesthesia where stargazing might lead to skinny-dipping or vice versa.
Hayal Pozanti
The Same Shy Sweetness of Meeting, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 80 inches / 152.4 x 203.2 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, The Same Shy Sweetness of Meeting
Hayal Pozanti
Daylight Licked Into Shape, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 80 inches / 152.4 x 203.2 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, Daylight Licked Into Shape
Hayal Pozanti
The Heart-shock of Believing, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 80 inches / 152.4 x 203.2 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, The Heart-shock of Believing
Hayal Pozanti
The Same Shy Sweetness of Meeting, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 80 inches / 152.4 x 203.2 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, The Same Shy Sweetness of Meeting
Hayal Pozanti
Daylight Licked Into Shape, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 80 inches / 152.4 x 203.2 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, Daylight Licked Into Shape
Hayal Pozanti
The Heart-shock of Believing, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 80 inches / 152.4 x 203.2 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, The Heart-shock of Believing
Such transformations are also evident in Daylight Licked into Shape (2025), a more abstract composition where the virtuous organs of flowers may be mutating into a remarkably sensual human event. With shapes that could be sperm, flying comets, or simply seeds blowing in the wind, the work’s ambitious scale takes the viewer on a journey through the cosmic and the intimate. Mimicking the experience of feelings, the work’s colors are forever coming in and out of focus, blurred but sharp, obvious yet difficult to articulate.
Hayal Pozanti
Breeze of Your Delight, 2025
Oil stick on linen
80 x 60 inches / 203.2 x 152.4 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, Breeze of Your Delight
Hayal Pozanti
Eternal Vapor, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, Eternal Vapor
Hayal Pozanti
With Liquid Love, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, With Liquid Love
Hayal Pozanti
Where Her Presence Smiled All Around Me, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, Where Her Presence Smiled All Around Me
Hayal Pozanti
Eternal Vapor, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, Eternal Vapor
Hayal Pozanti
With Liquid Love, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, With Liquid Love
Hayal Pozanti
Where Her Presence Smiled All Around Me, 2025
Oil stick on linen
60 x 48 inches / 152.4 x 121.9 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, Where Her Presence Smiled All Around Me
Pozanti’s painterly forms breathe, race, dance, and fly. In The Slumbering Seed Within My Heart (2025), a white lily, purple tree, splash of paint, or gushing geyser soars joyfully into the air. An orange sun sets on the left while a cool yellow sun rises on the right. Full of unbridled energy, this light-filled ecosphere revels in both change and constancy, honoring celestial cycles of time and a convincing timelessness. The complexity of the colors and metamorphosing composition offer viewers much to observe, inviting us to slow down and muse.
Hayal Pozanti
The Slumbering Seed Within My Heart, 2025
Oil stick on linen
48 x 36 inches / 121.9 x 91.4 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, The Slumbering Seed Within My Heart
Hayal Pozanti
Realities Thinly Concealed, 2025
Oil stick on linen
48 x 36 inches / 121.9 x 91.4 cm
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Hayal Pozanti, Realities Thinly Concealed
The twelve paintings in Pozanti’s “Pleasures Newly Found” open doors to immersive natural universes that bring us back to our senses. They evoke the sounds, smells, tastes, and touch of living in a human body in the age of AI. They also remind us that we are inextricably part of nature. And when we listen to nature, we can hear ourselves.

ARTIST BIO

Hayal Pozanti (b. 1983, Istanbul, Turkey) has a BA from Sabanci University and an MFA from Yale University. Her work is in the permanent collections of Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum; East Lansing, MI; JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA; San José Museum of Art, CA; UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; and the Long Museum, Shanghai. She has been awarded large-scale public projects and commissions by the New York Public Library; Public Art Fund, New York and Cleveland Clinic and Case Western, OH. She has enjoyed institutional solo shows at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT and Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. Recent and upcoming group exhibitions include the American Pavilion at the 2024 Gwangju Biennial and a 2025 group exhibition at The Contemporary Austin, TX. She will enjoy her fifth solo exhibition at Jessica Silverman in April 2025. She lives and works in Manchester, VT. Pozanti is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco and Timothy Taylor.

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