ABOUT -IYIY-
ABOUT -IYIY-
-IYIY- is a French artist working around concepts and techniques such as gestural painting, lyrical abstraction, tachisme, action painting, color field painting, abstract expressionism and dripping.
Her paintings are done in acrylic on canvas or wooden panel, mainly focused on color and material, and draw their inspiration from great masters like Georges Mathieu, Jackson Pollock, Zao Wou-Ki, Sam Francis, Hans Hartung, Mark Rothko, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Wols, Joan Mitchell and Nicolas de Staël. She also works as an illustrator. After studying visual arts and art history, and exhibiting in France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Italy, -IYIY- now moves between Barcelona and France.
What about -IYIY-‘s name and how to pronounce it ?
Behind the artist's pseudonym is a woman who has always been known to those close to her as… Lyly.