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Bradley Ertaskiran•Jan 22, 2026 — Mar 07, 2026
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Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to present Hover, a solo exhibition by London-based artist Sonya Derviz, featuring a new body of paintings that embrace the potential of uncertainty.
At first glance, Derviz’s amorphous abstractions appear effortless and unstructured, as if conjured out of thin air. Yet their captivating ethereality—the result of countless overlaid traces—reveals a laborious and strategic method that doesn’t make visibility its priority. Reference images are intuitively assembled as quiet guides for the overall composition, chosen not for their representational clarity but for their ability to ignite a scene before receding from view. The paintings’ underpinnings are also charted in charcoal, only to be concealed by the painting’s completion. Over this, Derviz develops layer upon layer of semitransparent oil paint, building unbound worlds in painted form. The accumulation of these translucent surfaces both structures the painting and leaves room for chance encounters.…
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Bradley Ertaskiran•Jan 22, 2026 — Mar 07, 2026
Press Release
Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to present Hover, a solo exhibition by London-based artist Sonya Derviz, featuring a new body of paintings that embrace the potential of uncertainty.
At first glance, Derviz’s amorphous abstractions appear effortless and unstructured, as if conjured out of thin air. Yet their captivating ethereality—the result of countless overlaid traces—reveals a laborious and strategic method that doesn’t make visibility its priority. Reference images are intuitively assembled as quiet guides for the overall composition, chosen not for their representational clarity but for their ability to ignite a scene before receding from view. The paintings’ underpinnings are also charted in charcoal, only to be concealed by the painting’s completion. Over this, Derviz develops layer upon layer of semitransparent oil paint, building unbound worlds in painted form. The accumulation of these translucent surfaces both structures the painting and leaves room for chance encounters.…
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