Christina Quarles

Christina Quarles

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In Quarles’ paintings, limbs, torsos and faces collide and merge with familiar domestic objects made strange through color and gesture.

Los Angeles–based artist Christina Quarles (born 1985) paints bodies that are subjected not only to the weight and gravity of the physical world but also to the pleasures and pressures of the social realm. Her work explores the universal experience of existing within a body, as well as the ways race, gender and sexuality intersect to form complex identities. Quarles, whose art is often considered in relation to her identity as a queer, cisgender woman of mixed race, is among the vanguard of artists who are upending the white-male-dominated art scene. This book features paintings and drawings from throughout Quarles’ career. Working mostly in acrylic, Quarles populates her canvases with polymorphous figures that reference her background in life drawing, but with an expressionist spin all her own. Her figures’ disconnected arms and legs break through a surface punctuated with bold patterns, textures and staccato markings.

Curator Grace Deveney’s illuminating insights into Quarles’s work reinforce its power and vitality and illuminate why this young painter is making waves in the contemporary art world.

100 pages with 58 color illustrations.

The exhibition Christina Quarles was presented at the MCA Mar 13–Jan 23, 2022. Learn more
Grace Deveney is a curator with Prospect New Orleans. Previously, she was an assistant curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She is currently a PhD candidate in art history at Northwestern University. She has also served as a curatorial researcher at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mark Godfrey is a British art historian, critic and curator. He was previously a senior curator for Tate Modern, where he cocurated the exhibition "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power."

Uri McMillen is an associate professor in the departments of African American Studies and English at UCLA.

Materials: Paperback

Size: 10.8" high x 7.5" wide

Item 10088577
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