Artist statement

Defne Beyce is a printer, artist, and educator with a foraged materials-based process. Her work rebels against the constraints and expectations that screen printing is a process of multiplicity and order. She explores migration, intersection, and identity through natural and found materials. Her prints are additive and evolving combinations of screens and unconventional materials, including dirt, charcoal, ash, and plants. She conjures a world of alternate possibilities by gathering pieces of the existing world and queering them into something new. 

BIO

Defne Beyce is a queer Turkish / American / Panamanian artist and printmaker who immigrated to California as a child. She worked with livestock around the Colorado front range before turning her focus toward art. Defne has an animal science degree from Colorado State University, a post-bac in design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from California College of Art in San Francisco. She learned to screen-print from the cohort of radical Oaxacan printers at Mission Graffica in San Francisco. She has taught printmaking at Kala Art Institute, UC Berkeley, and the Palo Alto Art Center and managed the print studio and poster program at Facebook's Analog Lab. Defne currently prints out of her backyard studio in Redwood City, California, at the base of the San Francisco Bay. 

EMAIL ME : DBEYCE@GMAIL.COM