FARAH ATASSI
2017-07-31Atassi’s canvases contain deeply considered anachronistic montages, allowing for a range of art-historical references—from designers such as the Memphis School to older movements within painting such as the constructivists and cubists—to commingle on the surfaces and beyond. Throughout her bold and expansive pictorial worlds, Atassi’s geometry and icons function as meta-languages.
In fact, Atassi describes her work as “space and object” painting, as the rectangles are literally anchored on the walls while the accumulation of lines and forms sprawl out into any particular space in which they are displayed. She conceives them as an act of staging—the figures dance a notated choreography; the objects dangle in suspense. The action, or potential for action, contained within each picture is a recollection of previous moments in time—lasting snapshots of creative progress relayed in order to rattle the natural cyclical static state of art-making. By willfully and playfully acknowledging these antecedents, she also wisely and powerfully acknowledges her own complicity in the chain.
Opposite – Still Life with Guitar, 2017
Exhibition runs through to August 12th, 2017
Ghebaly Gallery
2245 E Washington Blvd.
CA 90021
Los Angeles
