Deniz Ozyol is a Turkish mixed media artist working at the intersection of sculptural relief, painting, and material experimentation. Self-directed in her practice, she has developed a singular technique that sets her apart: three-dimensional face casts she takes directly from her own face, set in epoxy resin and embedded into acrylic-painted panels.
The result is a body of work that is simultaneously painting and sculpture — raw, tactile, and deeply personal.
Her ongoing series, Persona, takes its name from the Latin word for the masks worn in ancient theatre. Each work explores the tension between our inner world and the face we present to others — the constructed self versus the felt self. The faces that emerge from her canvases are neither fully revealed nor fully concealed. They surface. They resist. They haunt.