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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
Datum, 4 December 2021 - 22 January 2022
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on the wall on the left: Large, square red painting, displaying moire optical effects. Small circles in layers of different colors radiate from the center of the painting outward, increasing in size. the wall on the right has a similar, smaller painting w

Opening 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.  The resulting moiré — the fusion of two or more patterns which create another, much more complex pattern — echoes various natural systems, such as wave formations, stress patterns, and magnetic fields.  But for the artists, the moiré phenomenon demonstrates that what we perceive as light, form and space is, at its most basic, bits of assembled data.  Pixels.  Atoms.  Nano-particles.  These paintings make the invisible tangible.

 

Ironically and satisfyingly, the highly intellectual process of creating these works — grounded in physics and color theory — generates supremely sensuous and transcendent paintings.

 

Faruqee and Driscoll have been a couple since 1998, married since 2008, and collaborators in their painting practice since 2012.  Prior to co-authoring their moiré paintings, both painters made work that, among other things, questioned conventions of authorship and originality.  

 

Their collaboration, though it grew out of pragmatic solutions to process-based challenges, has become a conceptual practice that contests traditional notions of the artist as an individual with a singular identity and vision — and opens a conversation about the value of cooperation in the creative process.   

 

Anoka Faruqee was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and directs graduate studies in painting and printmaking at Yale School of Art.  David Driscoll was born in Wintersville, Ohio.  They live and work in New Haven, CT.  

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Works
  • Square painting with red concentric circles radiating from the center outward creating Moire pattern. There are organically shaped splatters of red paint at the edges.
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2020P-01 (Circle), 2020
    acrylic on linen on panel
    56 1/4 x 56 1/4 in
    142.9 x 142.9 cm
  • Square painting with concentric circles in greens and dark salmon radiating from center outwards creating moire pattern.
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2021P-12, 2021
    acrylic on linen on panel
    33 3/4 x 33 3/4 in
    85.7 x 85.7 cm

    Photo by Liz Calvi @liz_calvi
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  • Square painting with concentric circles in blues and purples radiating from center outwards creating moire pattern.
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2021P-15, 2021
    acrylic on linen on panel
    32 x 32 in
    81.3 x 81.3 cm

    Photo by Liz Calvi @liz_calvi
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  • Square painting with concentric circles in yellows, greens and purples radiating from center outwards creating moire pattern.
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2021P-19, 2021
    acrylic on linen on panel
    32 x 32 in
    81.3 x 81.3 cm

    Photo by Liz Calvi @liz_calvi
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  • Square painting with concentric circles in green and pink radiating from center outwards creating moire pattern.
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2021P-23, 2021
    acrylic on linen on panel
    32 x 32 in
    81.3 x 81.3 cm

    Photo by Liz Calvi @liz_calvi
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  • Square painting with concentric circles in light blues, yellows and pink radiating from center outwards creating moire pattern.
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2021P-18, 2021
    acrylic on linen on panel
    32 x 32 in
    81.3 x 81.3 cm

    Photo by Liz Calvi @liz_calvi
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  • Square painting with concentric circles in blues and purples radiating from center outwards creating moire pattern.
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2021P-24, 2021
    acrylic on linen on panel
    32 x 32 in
    81.3 x 81.3 cm

    Photo by Liz Calvi @liz_calvi
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  • Muli-hued blue and green paint layered to create several circular moiré effects
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2021P-06, 2021
    acrylic on linen on panel
    33 3/4 x 33 3/4 in
    85.7 x 85.7 cm

    Photo by Liz Calvi @liz_calvi
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  • Square painting with concentric circles in dark blues and greens radiating from center outwards creating moire pattern.
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2021P-16, 2021
    acrylic on linen on panel
    33 3/4 x 33 3/4 in
    85.7 x 85.7 cm

    Photo by Liz Calvi @liz_calvi
  • Square painting with concentric circles in dark blues and peach radiating from center outwards creating moire pattern.
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2021P-07, 2021
    acrylic on linen on panel
    33 3/4 x 33 3/4 in
    85.7 x 85.7 cm

    Photo by Liz Calvi @liz_calvi
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  • Square painting with concentric circles in light teal and dark peach radiating from center outwards creating moire pattern.
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2021P-11, 2021
    acrylic on linen on panel
    45 x 45 in
    114.3 x 114.3 cm

    Photo by Liz Calvi @liz_calvi
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  • Square painting with concentric circles in blues and greys radiating from center outwards creating moire pattern.
    Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
    2021P-03, 2021
    acrylic on linen on panel
    32 x 32 in
    81.3 x 81.3 cm

    Photo by Liz Calvi @liz_calvi
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Installation Views
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation of two square paintings displaying moire patterns. Wall on left has red painting and wall on right has green...
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Square pink and green painting with pore pattern next to windows with pink sunset.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation with two square moire paintings in blues and greens and three square moire paintings in blues and purples on...
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation with four square moire paintings hung in horizontal line.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Install of three square moire paintings displaying side edges with globs of paint.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: One blue and one green square moire painting on white wall in gallery space.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation with two square moire paintings on left wall and two square moire paintings on right perpendicular wall.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation with four square moire paintings hung in horizontal line. Two paintings are hung on wall that overlaps one wall...
Events
  • On the left, Hamza Walker sits in front of a beige wall in khaki pants, a striped collared shirt and grey blazer. On the right, Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll stand in their studio. There are shelves of paint buckets behind them. They stand in front of

    In Conversation: Hamza Walker with Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll

    13 Jan 2022
    Tune in for a virtual tour of the current Faruqee/Driscoll exhibition, Datum, at Hosfelt Gallery and a conversation between the artists and Hamza Walker, Director of LAXART. Hamza Walker is the director of the Los Angeles nonprofit art space LAXART. Prior to joining LAXART in 2016, he was director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society, a non-collecting contemporary art museum in Chicago, where he organized exhibitions and public programming and wrote extensively on the field of contemporary art for 22 years. He was awarded the Walter Hopps...
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News
  • HG Magazine Issue no. 35

    HG Magazine Issue no. 35

    COLOR: Anoka Faruqee + David Driscoll & Nicole Phungrasamee Fein Plus announcing New Website December 18, 2021
    Two concurrent solo exhibitions – Anoka Faruqee + David Driscoll's Datum & Nicole Phungrasamee Fein's Color Study – explore the properties and complexities of color....
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