Metamorphosis

Almine Rech New York is pleased to present Metamorphosis, Farah Atassi's fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.

"My soul is wrought to sing of forms transformed to bodies new and strange!" The invocation from Ovid's Metamorphoses is an apt preface for Farah Atassi's new body of work. Across these eight paintings, transformed forms abound, deconstructed through a liberation of mind and brushstroke.

In Nocturne, a curious form, both vegetal and human, stands in an indeterminate space, part…