Christina Quarles is a Los Angeles-based artist, whose practice works to dismantle and question assumptions and ingrained beliefs surrounding identity and the human figure. As her immersion in drawing progressed, she became well versed in and heavily influenced by the imagery and painterly processes of art historical masters David Hockney and Philip Guston, among others. Quarles honed in on the bodily experience as her subject, beginning an artistic engagement with the contradictions inherent in one’s own complex, nuanced identity. In her current work, Quarles has moved text from the paintings themselves and into her titles, further winnowing out a predetermined visual narrative.
Quarles won multiple awards for his work including: the Pérez Art Museum Miami Prize (2019); the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2017); and the Robert Schoelkopf Fellowship at Yale University (2015). In addition, she participated in the Fountainhead Residency in 2017. Quarles was included in the 59th Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani and the 16th Biennale de Lyon, curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath.
acrylic on canvas
127 x 106.7 cm | 50 x 42 in.