Farah Atassi’s New Paintings Take Shape at Almine Rech Gallery

Farah Atassi’s paintings are masters of transformation. The Paris-based, Belgian-born artist uses geometry as a base language to construct lively works, paying homage to classic subjects — still life, female nudes, the circus — explored by masters such as Picasso and Matisse. Using just a few shapes per work — a circle, triangle, line, or maybe the curve of a crescent moon — she is able to create intricate scenes. Her newest work is on display in a solo exhibition at Almine Rech on the Upper East Side in New York; later this year, Atassi will show work from the last two years in a solo exhibition at the Consortium Museum in Dijon, France. “I’m trying to create a new vision, a new perspective to these classic subjects,” says the artist, dressed in jeans and sneakers, from the swanky second-floor gallery space. “I make figurative paintings with abstract vocabulary, and all my paintings belong to a vocabulary…all these amazing painters, they created a language, and this language is made to be borrowed. Like any language, you use it. And so I use Picasso language, or also Matisse language, and their language becomes my language.” Even showing at Rech’s gallery is a fitting

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