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20 October – 8 December |
| DRISS
OUADAHI Another Place, Another Me |
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first solo exhibition on the West Coast, Düsseldorf-based painter Driss Ouadahi draws upon a lifelong interest in architecture to create a language of structure and abstraction. Layers of broad brushstrokes define the geometries of glassy high-rise buildings. The rigor of the modernist grid is made sensuous through the reflection of light and color. However, while the lushness of the paint seduces, the interiors of the ostensibly transparent buildings remain impenetrable. Ouadahi, a Moroccan-born immigrant to Europe, frequently paints the buildings found on the outskirts of cities like Paris and Berlin. These are the apartments built to accommodate growing immigrant populations. The reflective surfaces of Ouadahi’s buildings are boundaries, calling attention to the politics of class, religion and ethnicity and the failed utopian promises of Western modernism. |
| SUSAN
MARIE DOPP Ether |
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Through her paintings, Susan
Marie Dopp attempts to create a
state akin to that of a meditation practice in her viewers. Painted in acrylic gouache on unbleached muslin, these pieces involve geometric configurations and abstracted forms that are rooted in Islamic sacred geometry. Carefully composed in a borderless picture plane, reductive forms seem to float in and extend beyond the space the paintings occupy. They are expansive and ethereal. Complex relationships between color and form and the negative space within the picture plane create contemplative objects that are at the same time dynamic and serene. Like traditional Tantric painting, these paintings rely on the analogy between the microcosm (the body) and macrocosm (the universe). They attempt, through reduction, to illustrate the unknowable quality of infinity. |
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| San Francisco Chronicle review |
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| Ivory Ogee, 2007 |