Duygu Kivanc is an artist who has shown her work at the United Nations, SOHO, Chelsea in New York, Alexandria, McLean, and Fairfax in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area as well as internationally in various countries. Duygu has an Associates’s Degree in Textiles. She considers her participation in the Art Students’ League (open studio programs) in New York has influenced her development style in art. Especially, Knox Martin’s instruction on abstraction has very strong influence. Kivanc presents works inspired by her three years in Bhutan in narrative text and mixed-media pictures totaling 38 pages, making this a brief art book. In addition to paintings of the South Asian nation, the artist has included illustrations of her native Turkey as well as Hawaii and a more abstract work Duygu Kıvanc lives and works in Turkey and in the United States.
The artwork is somewhat stylized with characteristically solid elements flowing together to create the scene. The assembled paintings evoke a vivid sense of time and place. While Kivanc clearly experiments with various media, a strong aesthetic point of view is present in each composition