Kerime Elibuyuk - Self-Outline - XXL

Self-Outline explores the body not as an image, but as a physical trace.
The figure is created using the artist’s own life-size body as a measuring tool — lying directly on the raw canvas and drawing around herself, similar to a child’s first instinct to outline their hand on paper.

What remains is not a portrait, but a residue of presence: a body remembered through pressure, weight, and imbalance rather than likeness.

This work sits between abstraction and figuration, inviting the viewer to encounter the body as a lived experience rather than a visual identity.

Original Mixed Media Painting "Self-Outline" by Kerime Elibuyuk, 2025, Istanbul.

Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas.
Artwork Size: 150 x 100 cm
The canvas size is about 160 x 110 cm (extra space to stretch)

Made of artist-quality acrylic paints.
Fixated.
It is signed by the artist on both the front (lower left) and the back.

AUTHENTICITY

This artwork is a one-of-a-kind, authentic, and original piece of art.
The Certificate of Authenticity will be provided.

All copyright and reproduction rights are reserved by the artist.



PACKAGING

Unframed. Unstretched. Only canvas as rolled in a tube.
Packaged with extreme care and love, and shipped in a sturdy cardboard tube and bubble wrap to protect the artwork.

*I usually send with FedEx or UPS Express shipping if your country is suitable for the system I use.



About the Artist: Kerime Elibuyuk

Born in Istanbul in 1990.
She is a contemporary painter whose work navigates the interplay between emotion, form, and memory. Across abstract, biomorphic, and expressive compositions, she explores how visual rhythm, layered surfaces, and color relationships evoke internal landscapes that are at once personal and universal.

Drawing from intuition and observation, her practice integrates diverse approaches — from gestural abstraction and organic patterns to reductive geometry and sensory suggestion. Whether deploying vibrant fields of color, subtle tonal shifts, or dynamic texture, she seeks to create paintings that resonate as living visual experiences, inviting viewers to slow down and engage on a sensory level.

Her process involves building depth through multiple translucent layers, allowing earlier marks and gestures to remain present in the surface. This layered methodology reflects her interest in continuity, transformation, and the way experiences accumulate and interact over time. She often works with mixed media, including acrylic, wax pastel, and spray paint, continually refining how materiality and meaning intersect.

Across figurative elements, symbolic gestures, and abstract currents, her work is united by a pursuit of clarity through complexity — creating visual spaces where color, form, and feeling coexist in balance and tension.
She uses symbolism and tries to reflect her thoughts about reality on the canvas in an expressionist style with striking and vibrant colors. The artist, who sometimes prefers to create abstract, cubic, and minimalist works, draws inspiration from the simplicity and strikingness of truth.

Her artworks are exhibited in online galleries in Turkey and Worldwide.

In November 2021, her artwork "Magnolia" was featured in the "Inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe" Collection of Saatchi Art Gallery.
In March 2023, her artwork "Floral Vibes" was featured in the "New This Week 03-06-2023" Collection of Saatchi Art Gallery's Chief Curator Rebecca Wilson and was exhibited on the home page.
In 2024, her artwork "Cells of Ideas" was selected for the Saatchi Art Gallery's collection "Geometric Abstraction Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky," and her artwork "Burst of Desert" was selected for the collection "International Spotlight: Turkey".

Exhibitions:

To See or Not To See (1. Solo Exhibition) - December 2023, Caddebostan Culture Center - İstanbul.
Colors of Anatolia - July 2023, İstanbul.
İlhami Atalay's Students Exhibition - May 2023, İstanbul Design Center.
New Dynamism Exhibition - March 2023, İstanbul.
Freedom - Karl&Ein Gallery - July 2021, İstanbul.