Current Work
I create paintings of everyday objects and scenery, exposing the often-overlooked structures within our society. These features of our physical environment, like electrical infrastructure, symbolize the complex social systems we depend on yet routinely ignore. By depicting such subjects, I engage with these systems in new ways, inviting viewers to contemplate their own relationship with these essential yet neglected aspects of modern life.
My work involves themes of community and isolation, crisis and resilience, and the transformation of ordinary spaces into sites of reflection and implied narrative. Through this lens, I elicit a deeper conversation of how we interact within our social landscape. Each painting serves as a simulation, a setting for the viewer to meditate on the unseen threads that connect us, the cultures we are a part of, and the unspoken interactions we partake in.
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About the Artist
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Yusef Fageeh (b. 2000) is an emerging artist based in Orlando, FL. He is currently pursuing a BFA in Drawing and Painting with a minor in Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. Fageeh’s upbringing between Saudi Arabia and the United States informs his recent engagement with themes of community versus isolation, resilience in the face of crisis, and the questioning of cultural conventions—all set against our social and physical landscape. Through his paintings, Fageeh prompts viewers to contemplate overlooked structures within society, transforming ordinary spaces into sites of reflection.
In his free time, Fageeh produces music and researches medieval Islamic texts.
