RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- Turkish-born artist Hayal Pozanti debuts a new series of paintings and digital animations in her first solo museum exhibition, Deep Learning, being presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum as part of the Painting in Four Takes series on view through April 3, 2016.

The practice of Hayal Pozanti spans painting, digital animation, and sculpture. For the exhibition, she debuts a new series of paintings and digital animations. Pozanti negotiates two opposing image-producing interfaces, the digital, with its mechanical, frenetic pace, and traditional studio practice, with its slowness, imperfection and tactile insistence. To do so, she has invented “Instant Paradise”: a thirty-one-character “alphabet,” which she uses to generate shapes that never repeat themselves, nor have a recognizable equivalent in visual culture. Embedded within these shapes are bundles of mined data relating to the impact of contemporary technological developments on human lives. Through this process, Pozanti acts as a digital-to-analog encryption system so as to preserve information that could be lost or altered in the cloud. Her movement, from freehand to track pad, reinforces her intent, so that the final composition is equally successful online and in person. Alongside her paintings, and sometimes shown side by side, she creates digital animations, both informed by her back and forth translation of mechanical and digital processes and her desire for the means via which they are seen to be interchangeable, non hierarchical, and streamlined.

Hayal Pozanti: Deep Learning is part of Painting in Four Takes, a series of solo exhibitions that provide a window into the practices of four engaging painters who imbue the medium with relevance and character. In addition to Pozanti, Steve DiBenedetto, Julia Rommel, and Ruth Root are being featured. On view from November 15, 2015, through April 3, 2016, the exhibitions mark the first time in over twenty years that The Aldrich has dedicated all of its galleries to painting.