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Susan Hefuna, Building #2, 2009 red and black ink on tracing paper 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches 34.9 x 34.9 cm PK 13965

For lovers of abstract art, there’s Susan Hefuna: an Egyptian-German artist whose geometrical creations resemble solar systems and construction sites. Only in the art world can something evoke both a chromosome and a painter’s ladder.

Her drawings, on view now at the Paul Kasmin Gallery through May 1st, are often made by layering ink and pencil sketches on tracing paper. The effect is slightly familiar and slightly otherworldly, with delicate red, black and pink shapes that, like an optical illusion, only take on meaning in the eye of the beholder.

Susan Hefuna
Building #10, 2009
black ink on tracing paper
13 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches
34.9 x 34.9 cm
PK 13973

Susan Hefuna
Building #6, 2009
black ink on tracing paper
13 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches
34.9 x 34.9 cm
PK 13969

Susan Hefuna
Building #8, 2009
red and black ink on tracing paper
13 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches
34.9 x 34.9 cm
PK 13971

Susan Hefuna
Building #11, 2009
red and black ink on tracing paper
13 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches
34.9 x 34.9 cm
PK 13974