Lauren Quin’s abstract paintings draw the eye in with electric colors and seemingly pulsating lines. They exist at the juncture of the deeply personal and the universal, the point where each begins to bleed into the other—for, as she proves in her work, if you go too far into either, you are certain to loop back into its opposite. Quin’s compositions are also built from a form that she calls the tube: a key trope in her oeuvre. These thick strips of color and shadow resemble volumetric prisms. When overlapping, they morph into a shifting crosshatch or moiré pattern. Quin’s tubes are both the most persistently recurring and the least stable element of her compositions; they play tricks with the consistency of their weight and value.
2021
oil on canvas
215.9 x 116.8 cm
oil on canvas
215.9 x 116.8 cm
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