Ali Beletic’s large-scale abstract paintings draw on her background in music and her lived experience in the American West, evolving the tradition of American Abstract Expressionism into a distinctly western visual language. The work celebrates canvas as a site of ritual and release, fusing matte textures from signature clays and ancient pigments—botanical dyes, crushed stones, and burned wood—with contemporary media like spray paint and oil. Beletic blends the raw emotional force of gesture painting with cultural markers of the outsider: the rebel, the nomad, the intuitive spirit moving in sync with both nature and culture. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Click the link in our bio to discover Beletic’s latest work.