Inside her exhibition at our Downtown Los Angeles gallery, Christina Quarles met with a group of young people from Stars: John Muir Girls Girl, Inner-City Arts Work of Art and Los Angeles County High School for the Arts to talk about her new body of work. ‘Christina Quarles. The Ground Glows Black’ presents work that reflects the acute sense of displacement the artist experienced in the wake of the historic Los Angeles wildfires that consumed her home in early 2025. Quarles is already admired internationally for the dexterity and assertiveness with which she manipulates paint. With the new works on view in ‘The Ground Glows Black,’ she pushes that expressive and physical power to new limits, conveying the impact of the fires on her inner landscape.