Her colors are inventive, orchestrated, and daringly adventurous let us allow them to unfold… Fatima Al-Husseini’s first solo exhibition is rich in flavor and resonant in voice
Fatima Al-Husseini, whose works are on view at Art Scene Gallery under the title Let It Unfold (or Let Her Unfold), beginning April 26, is a young painter yet one whose artistic future appears laden with verdant promise. She possesses a powerful chromatic identity: gifted, daring, provocative (without ever lapsing into crudeness), confident in her energies, exploratory, and engaged in a search for her own distinctive pictorial voice one marked by specificity, differentiation, and a palpable spirit of adventure.
This is her first solo exhibition, following several participations in group shows. Yet the exhibition suggests, without hesitation, that Al-Husseini has long and deeply grappled with her painting first within her unconscious and has labored over it with study and care, before arriving at her present state of structural and compositional poise, both physical and spiritual. She paints with a fluid, luminous, forceful, and audacious color; she composes it, structures it, builds it, shapes it, and attunes it, never repressing it, but rather releasing it to wander freely across terrains of place and imagination. And yet, at no moment does this color lapse into gratuitous or ostentatious formalism, even as it boldly invades the pictorial surface and its strata, compelling the viewer into its spell.
This color departs from its abstract lyricism only to reach a form of what might be called negative abstraction a mode that is neither easy nor complacent. Through color, she composes her world: her nature, her spaces, her flowers and trees, her birds, her houses, and the horizon itself.
Al-Husseini’s exhibition is like a bud in spring, like a breast, like a river among rivers; it unfolds in the manner of snow cascading from the fertile depths of a subconscious rich in flavor. Before it, neither the viewer nor the artist has any recourse but to say: let color unfold, let bodies intertwine—let them open, flourish, and blossom, until the painting becomes what it desires to become. And let it become why not a woman
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