Farah Atassi creates large-scale paintings which combine the influence of Modernism and Folk Art. Abstract and figurative components collide in her canvases, with central figures or still life scenes situated within phantasmal surroundings. Heightening the emotional crux of the central subject,  Atassi’s hallucinatory backgrounds draw out the expressions and sensorial quality of the principal image. Brass instruments are presented with sporadic, notational markings, whilst a female bather is accompanied with more contemplative, softer gestures. The intoxicating spatial dynamics that Atassi works with echoes the heady perspective championed by the Cubists. The works themselves are made with oil paint and enamel, developing via a masking tape grid laid out to bring a sense of order to Atassi’s heady mosaic of imagery. Each work is delivered in concrete, vivid hues and the figurative elements are drafted in bold, graphic registers. In the artist’s own words, she creates “figurative paintings that depict abstraction”. Enrapturing to encounter, Atassi’s has conjured a distinctive realm of her own to work in, creating dizzying and electric paintings which demand the viewer’s attention.

François Ghebaly

Paris

Jean-Francois Prat Prize

Brussels

London

Josh Lilley

Los Angeles

Dubai

Green Art Gallery

Amsterdam

Grimm

Galerie Frank Elbaz

Michel Rein

New York City

Bureau

Almine Rech

Centre Pompidou

Palais De Tokyo

Saint Petersburg

State Hermitage

Noisiel

La Ferme Du Buisson

Fonds national d’art contemporain

Musée D'Art Moderne De Paris

Bordeaux

Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA

Marciano Art Foundation

Dijon

Le Consortium

Gennevilliers

Galerie Édouard Manet

Farah Atassi

Boston

School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts

Mechanical Cabaret 4

Mechanical Cabaret 2

Mechanical Cabaret

Still Life with Accordion

The Bather

The Party 3

The Party 4

The Game 2

Woman in Profile

Still Life With Eggs

Studio With Red Banjo

Dancer on Stage

Model on Stage