We began our longstanding conversation about abstract field painting in 1998, exhibited our work alongside each other in 2005, and began developing the moiré series in 2012. The current co-authored work expands on aspects of each of our prior individual practices, including Faruqee's commitment to modular chroma and geometry and Driscoll's investigation of indexical materiality. Painting duos are unorthodox: thwarting desires for individualized identity and vision. Prior to collaborating, each of our practices challenged the essentialism of the author's hand in the history of modern Painting, thus foreshadowing our artistic partnership.
We layer and calibrate misaligned concentric circles, amplifying them into luminous atmosphere and volume. As in perception, gradients of light and hue define both solid forms and intangible space. Some of our circle paintings present radiating conical volumes while others refer to spectrums, twilight, or perceptual after-images. Using systems of phasing and binary logic, our paintings engineer pigment and geometry into illusory experiences that provide clues about their material origins. Paint flowing over the edges and various ruptures in the image are by-products of processes that incorporate both gesture and tactility.
The most recent paintings introduce a "secondary moiré," a confounding and sometimes nearly subliminal matrix literally buried within the paintings. These ghost interference patterns re-enact screen effects via a textured substrate: vibrating movement on a topographical surface causes each concentric circular line to become sinuous. The result is yet another interruption of experience, uncannily revealing what we perceive as pure light and form to be bits of assembled data. (You will have to trust us until you see these paintings in person because screens that you view documentation on will create their own secondary moirés.)
Inspired by the modularity of digital images, these paintings can only be fully understood in person at varying viewing distances and angles. By redeeming the detritus of digital imagery, we make objects that challenge that medium's primacy while connecting modularity to the expansive presence of order within culture and nature.
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll, November 2021
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2021P-01, 2021acrylic on linen on panel32 x 32 in
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2013P-27, 2013acrylic on linen on panel22.5 x 22.5 inches
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2017P-18, 2017acrylic on linen on panel22 1/2 x 22 1/2 in
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2017P-30, 2017acrylic on linen on panel33 3/4 x 33 3/4 in
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2017P-24, 2017acrylic on linen on panel22 1/2 x 22 1/2 in
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2018P-21, 2018acrylic on linen on panel45 x 45 in
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2013P-44, 2013acrylic on linen on panel22 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches/57.1 x 57.1 cm
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2013P-58, 2013acrylic on linen on panel11 1/4 x 11 1/4 in
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2017P-16, 2017acrylic on linen on panel22 1/2 x 22 1/2 in
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2017P-21, 2017acrylic on linen on panel33 3/4 x 33 3/4 inches/85.7 x 85.7 cm
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2018P-02, 2018acrylic on linen on panel45 x 45 in
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2018P-06, 2018acrylic on linen on panel22 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches/57.1 x 57.1 cm
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2013P-72, 2013acrylic on linen on panel22 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches/57.1 x 57.1 cm
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2018P-07, 2018acrylic on linen on panel33 3/4 x 33 3/4 inches/85.7 x 85.7 cm
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2018P-08, 2018acrylic on linen on panel45 x 45 inches/114.3 x 114.3 cm
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2018P-20 (Circle), 2018acrylic on linen on panel45 x 45 inches/114.3 x 114.3 cm
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2018P-23, 2018acrylic on linen on panel45 x 45 in
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll2020P-01 (Circle), 2020acrylic on linen on panel56 1/4 x 56 1/4 in
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
Datum 4 Dec 2021 - 22 Jan 2022Opening Reception: Saturday December 4 | 3-5 pm Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll collaborate to create bewildering paintings devised of layers of carefully misaligned, concentric circles which generate optical effects....Read more -
Where We Are
23 Oct - 24 Nov 2021In a group exhibition marking this moment in history (and celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hosfelt Gallery) the work of 34 artists is employed to reflect on the zeitgeist of...Read more -
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
structural color 17 Mar - 28 Apr 2018In Anoka Faruqee’s sixth exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, she collaborates with her partner David Driscoll to present new paintings from their Circleseries. These works exploit the optical complexity of interference...Read more -
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
Substance and Accident 19 Oct - 7 Dec 2013Hosfelt 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...Read more -
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
The Sum Is Greater Than Its Parts 5 Oct - 29 Dec 2012Hosfelt Gallery, New York Anoka Faruqee’s mastery of color, experimentation in pattern, and relentless study of the optic converge in an exhibition of extraordinary paintings rich with dichotomy. One body...Read more
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Top Ten
Katherine McKittrick, ARTFORUM, September 1, 2020 -
Paintings with a Retinal Buzz
Stephen Maine, Hyperallergic, October 12, 2019 -
Anoka Faruqee and Michelle Grabner
Michelle Grabner, BOMBLOG, September 18, 2017 -
Anoka Faruqee’s Dance of Matter and Light
John Yau, Hyperallergic, April 2, 2017 -
Artist Interview: Anoka Faruqee’s Optical Paintings Will Twist And Bend Your Perception
Bill Donovan, Beautiful/Decay, August 28, 2014 -
ANOKA FARUQEE
Karen Rapp, Art in Amerca, January 1, 2014 -
Anoka Faruqee: Substance and Accident
Rob Marks, Art Practical, December 2, 2013 -
The Truth is Out There: Anoka Faruqee at Hosfelt Gallery
Elspeth Walker, Daily Serving, November 24, 2013 -
ART | FARUQEE
David Humphrey, BOMBLOG, January 31, 2013 -
Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll
Susan Snodgrass, Art in America, October 1, 2005 -
‘Wow!' follows 'Huh?' where art imitates art
Margaret Hawkins, Chicago Sun Times, February 25, 2005
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HG Magazine Issue no. 35
COLOR: Anoka Faruqee + David Driscoll & Nicole Phungrasamee Fein Plus announcing New Website December 18, 2021Two concurrent solo exhibitions – Anoka Faruqee + David Driscoll's Datum & Nicole Phungrasamee Fein's Color Study – explore the properties and complexities of...Read more -
HG Magazine Issue no. 2
Op Art, Isabella Kirkland, Lordy Rodriguez, movie recommendations April 16, 2020Todd Hosfelt discusses the resurgence of Op Art Isabella Kirkland shares work from her studio Lordy Rodriguez' gerrymandering series is highlighted The Hosfelt Gallery staff...Read more