About
Following the presentation of her work at this year’s Venice Biennale, and ahead of her inclusion in the Biennale de Lyon, Christina Quarles will have her first major solo exhibition of new paintings with Hauser & Wirth in New York in September. Many of the works on view were created during the artist’s 2022 residency at the gallery’s Somerset location and draw inspiration from the local culture and the surrounding landscape of the English countryside, expanding upon her instinctual approach to figuration and richly layered visual vocabulary.
Image: Christina Quarles, Caught Up, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 213.4 x 182.9 x 5.1 cm / 84 x 72 x 2 in © Christina Quarles. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Pilar Corrias, London. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
About the artist
Christina Quarles (b. 1985) is a Los Angeles-based artist, whose practice works to dismantle and question assumptions and ingrained beliefs surrounding identity and the human figure. Born in Chicago and raised by her mother in Los Angeles, Quarles took art classes from…
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