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Faris’s paintings feature clean lines, lending his compositions a hard edge that, he says, “contains a softness of color, the disintegration of form within a form.” These dramatic color gradients, he explains, are meant to evoke “a feeling rather than a thought” and encourage the viewer to “call forth associations with nature.” His paintings, which stand about five-feet tall, unify two contradictory elements: the controlled chaos of swirling color within carefully defined boundaries.
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