Biography

Hers is a career that we can truly call 'postmodern' in the most positive sense of the term. Her works include a wide variety of genres and practices, ranging from the most abstract and plain work, which change according to the space in which they are displayed or the surfaces on which they are hung, to colorful images abstracted from complex views of nature.

The paintings of Jale Vural-Schmidt are like experiences that offer our senses and thoughts forms which are hybrid at times and pure at others and in which multiplicities intertwine (...)

This method, which is open to experimental and unexpected coincidences, is what truly makes her an artist. At times, they assume hybrid forms and, at times, pure forms in which manifolds are closely intertwined (...). These paintings do not expect definite attitudes on our part; often we too approach them in an experimental and investigative way. A painting which presents itself to us like a question or an invitation as a question or an invitation, can enter diverse metamorphoses as the perception of time lengthens.

- Jale Erzen, Ankara -

Jale Vural-Schmidt is a wanderer and mediator between two worlds, two cultures. She loves to experiment with materials and surfaces (...). Her works, which are inspired and abstracted by nature and oscillate between painting, drawing and sculpture, are just as sensitive and poetic (...). Cement tiles, which were exposed to the influence of the weather, form a fine, picturesque relief with their colored surfaces (...). Finally, the large black-and-white drawings of the 'column people': they inscribe the figures in a narrow, high square without restricting their freedom.

- Regine Nahrwold, Braunschweiger Zeitung -

Jale's works combines the two cultures - the discipline of the 'West' and the deep silence of the 'East'- which she absorbed with great sensitivity during her elementary studies of art in Turkey as well as during her studies in Nuremberg and Budapest and her artistic experiences at important centers of art in Europe, so that even minimalist works barely hide the passion behind the silent layers.

Her works, which reflect her observations of the surroundings, create a mystery through the medium she uses and the themes she selects and this mystery is another meeting point of her art and her deep personality, which does not reveal itself easily. The variety in the use of materials, is a feature which strengthens the artist’s word.

- Ayşegül Kurtel, İzmir -