In her latest body of work, Ali Beletic explores the tension between ancient instinct and contemporary visual culture through electric color, raw forms, and heightened materiality. Combining ultra-matte clay surfaces with botanical dyes, crushed semi-precious stones, burned wood, spray paint, and oil, Beletic creates compositions that feel both elemental and distinctly modern. Drawing from cave painting, ceremonial markings, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art, her gestural approach considers painting as a conduit for emotion, ritual, and shared cultural memory. The resulting works bring together the archaic and contemporary in a vivid exploration of instinct, material, and painterly freedom. Click the link in our bio to discover Beleteic’s latest body of work.