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Christina Quarles’ latest body of work reflects the acute sense of displacement she 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.
Kinetic planes of color, texture and pattern evoke architectural and digital realms where human forms jolt and bend in response to unseen forces. Denser and more frenetic than Quarles’ earlier works, these paintings feel newly urgent while hewing to the artist’s core pursuit: to show how instability and resilience coexist, creating spaces where multiple realities can overlap.
Quarles approaches each canvas with no predetermined composition, beginning with improvisatory marks that evolve into fluid lines resembling human…
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Christina Quarles’ latest body of work reflects the acute sense of displacement she 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.
Kinetic planes of color, texture and pattern evoke architectural and digital realms where human forms jolt and bend in response to unseen forces. Denser and more frenetic than Quarles’ earlier works, these paintings feel newly urgent while hewing to the artist’s core pursuit: to show how instability and resilience coexist, creating spaces where multiple realities can overlap.
Quarles approaches each canvas with no predetermined composition, beginning with improvisatory marks that evolve into fluid lines resembling human…
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