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October 19 - December 7, 2013Info
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http://www.hosfeltgallery.com/
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(415) 495-5454
Hosfelt Gallery presents the West Coast debut of Anoka Faruqee's newest body of work: the moire paintings. While the surfaces of these paintings appear refined and even digitally produced, closer inspection dispels that illusion, revealing the physicality both of the artistic process and of the paint itself.
Faruqee's moire paintings refer to a common and unwanted effect of digital and print imagery, wherein overlapping patterns are mis-registered and optically confused. The patterns Faruqee produces also evoke interference effects in nature, like wave formations or magnetic fields.
Faruqee intentionally reaffirms the place of color in painting - "fighting the chromophobic impulse," as she calls it. She says, "Color has always been associated with the decorative, as has pattern, and I hope my work undoes some of these binaries: superficial vs. deep, decorative vs. conceptual, rigor vs. pleasure, etc."