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Driss Ouadahi
Another Place, Another Me, 20 October - 8 December 2007
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Driss Ouadahi: Another Place, Another Me

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Driss Ouadahi, Untitled, 2007, oil on canvas, 39.4 x 70.92 inches
Driss Ouadahi, Untitled, 2007, oil on canvas, 39.4 x 70.92 inches

In his 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.

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Works
  • Dark brown and pale yellow abstract urban landscape with elevated highway and several high rise buildings faded in the distance A multi-colored grid of alternating thin and thick horizontal and vertical lines form the illusion of foreground scaffolding
    Driss Ouadahi
    Vanishing Point, 2007
    oil on canvas
    71 x 87 inches
    180 x 220 cms
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  • Abstract urban landscape with large yellow construction vehicles working on a railroad with several high rise buildings in the distance A multi-colored grid of alternating thin and thick horizontal and vertical lines form the illusion of foreground scaffolding
    Driss Ouadahi
    Dockside, 2007
    oil on canvas
    35.5 x 39.5 inches
    90 x 100 cms
  • Abstract painting with several grids that create the illusion of looking down from and into the hollow interior of a high rise building with multiple balconies
    Driss Ouadahi
    To the ground, 2007
    oil on canvas
    69 x 87 inches
    175 x 220 cms
  • Abstract urban landscape with snow covered structures in the foreground and several faded high rise buildings in the distance A multi-colored grid of alternating thin and thick horizontal and vertical lines form the illusion of foreground scaffolding
    Driss Ouadahi
    Perdition, 2007
    oil on canvas
    71 x 87 inches
    180 x 220 cms
  • Abstract urban landscape with several white high rise buildings and large green space at the bottom third of the painting underneath a gray stormy sky A multi-colored grid of alternating thin and thick horizontal and vertical lines form the illusion of foreground scaffolding
    Driss Ouadahi
    Le green, 2007
    oil on canvas
    35.5 x 39.5 inches
    90 x 100 cms
  • Blurry pale blue green and gray landscape with faded shapes that allude to high rise buildings with a dark multi-colored grid of alternating thin and thick horizontal and vertical lines form the illusion of foreground scaffolding
    Driss Ouadahi
    Building Shell I, 2006
    oil on canvas
    59.1 x 66.98 inches
    150 x 170 cms
  • Abstract urban landscape with several white high rise buildings underneath a dark stormy sky A multi-colored grid of alternating thin and thick horizontal and vertical lines form the illusion of foreground scaffolding
    Driss Ouadahi
    Behind the grid, 2007
    oil on canvas
    71 x 55 inches
    180 x 140 cms
  • Abstract urban landscape with several blurry and pale colored high rise buildings A multi-colored grid of alternating thin and thick horizontal and vertical lines form the illusion of foreground scaffolding
    Driss Ouadahi
    Untitled, 2007
    oil on canvas
    39.4 x 70.92 inches
    100 x 180 cms
  • Abstract urban landscape with several blurry and colorful high rise buildings A multi-colored grid of alternating thin and thick horizontal and vertical lines form the illusion of foreground scaffolding
    Driss Ouadahi
    Accordion file, 2007
    oil on canvas
    110 x 170 cm
  • Abstract urban landscape with two high rise buildings and large empty streets under a dark blue night sky A multi-colored grid of alternating thin and thick horizontal and vertical lines form the illusion of foreground scaffolding
    Driss Ouadahi
    Moonlight, 2007
    oil on canvas
    71 x 87 inches
    180 x 220 cms
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Press
  • Driss Ouadahi, "Untitled [j]," 2007, watercolor on paper, 9 5/16 x 13 5/16 inches

    Galleries: The Paint Strokes Between Realism and Abstraction

    Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, December 1, 2007

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