Bedri Baykam: Meet the Artist
Summary
A child prodigy, his work has been exhibited from the tender age of 6 in places such as Bern, Geneva, New York, Washington, London, Rome, Munich, Stockholm, etc.Women have been the subject matter of much of his artistic endeavors: His series "Girly Plots" has been described as a fetish collage containing synthetic materials, special fabrics, zinc plates, and photos of the artist’s models taken internationally.A child prodigy, his work has been exhibited from the tender age of 6 in places such as Bern, Geneva, New York, Washington, London, Rome, Munich, Stockholm, etc.Born in Turkey, he has studied in the Sorbonne and L’Actorat at Paris.His art cannot be pigeonholed and can be anything from graffiti to free-figuration and an abstract use of paint, in very richly textured layers.Women have been the subject matter of much of his artistic endeavors: His series "Girly Plots" has been described as a fetish collage containing synthetic materials, special fabrics, zinc plates, and photos of the artist’s models taken internationally.(from his California neo-expressionist period) Mixed Media on Canvas: 1984 sold for 68,950 US Dollars)About YoreYore is a nonprofit organization founded in November 2005 by several folkdance instructors to teach the basics of Turkish ethnic dances from different regions of Turkey.