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Nuran is a recent CVAD Alum from the University of North Texas. About her work, Nuran shares, “In my works I explore the immigrant identity and feelings of the diaspora. Morphing, layering and revealing in order to express grief and displacement; to explore the implications of departure on one’s identity. I was always analytical and precise as a child, and becoming an immigrant at a young age had made me even more observant. The departure from my home is when I truly started to focus on the spaces around me; seeing the space surrounding the subject rather than the subject itself.

My art began to abstract the human experience of immigration and its relation to space. Simultaneously, I realized I had begun to grieve the life I had lost with my art. The abstract spaces I depict in my work resembled memories of my childhood home, of bits and pieces I remember of my country, and feelings I have felt that made me who I am and still shape me to this day. Furthermore, I started using reappearing imagery and symbols like mediterranean fruits, the moon, flowers, the stem, checkered patterns to develop my narrative. This narrative became a way in which to connect my artistic practice with my present self, as a Turkish-immigrant artist. Today, I would define my art to be abstract portrayals of the feelings and memories of an immigrant, sometimes even self-portraits of growth and acceptance.”

The work is on view in the lobby on the first floor from November 24 - May 23, 2026.