Katja Farin’s (@katjafarin) solo exhibition Counterfeit is on view at our Bayview gallery through 12/2. “Katja Farin’s recent body of work examines illusions: of the self, of safety, prosperity, community, and how we trick ourselves, and others, into believing certain things. Farin addresses these topics without preaching or moralizing, avoiding subjecting the bodies that appear in their paintings to ‘examination and interrogation,’ [1] in favor of inviting strangeness and peculiarity into the spaces these figures inhabit. Their exhibition at Friends Indeed, titled Counterfeit, teems with optical illusions, sleights of hand, and everyday magic.”— Jesi Khadivi [1] William J. Simmons, Queer Formalism: The Return, p23. Katja Farin Have a Sip, 2022 Oil on canvas 55 x 75 inches #KatjaFarin