British –American, with Armenian origin, born 1978.
Taline Temizian is a prolific and highly versatile artist & fine jewellery designer, constantly breaking conventional art boundaries by deconstructing the experiences that have shaped her life into intensely biographical work. Self-proclaimed ‘nowhere girl’ Temizian creates an uncanny world of flattened time and wildly shifting perspectives that bear witness to her fractured heritage and speak to an underlying sense of displacement.
Prefaced by an education in visual communication (London College of Communications), art and design (Central Saint Martins), literature (Aleppo University) and fashion (Esmod), her work often cites themes and characters that seem familiar but whose identities have become blurred, divorced from their original contexts like émigrés in her fictional world. Through extensive research, technical rigour and sustained reflection she has gradually developed a unique visual language, characterised by the frequently recurring symbols and motifs that suffuse her work. Temizian’s abstract figurative painting is highly gestural and yet meticulously planned, merging the factual with the fictional; imposing a subtle geometry and the illusion of order on to a world full of uncertainty. Often featuring a host of inscrutable Kafka-esque characters, Temizian constructs twisted dreamlike landscapes that echo the work of, amongst others, Calvino, Bosch and Picasso.
Taline Temizian lives and works in London.