Artist Christina Quarles: Bodies Seen From Within | Louisiana Channel
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- Опубліковано 18 гру 2024
- ”My work is about this embodied experience.”
We visited Christina Quarles in Los Angeles and met more than just a fabulous painter.
“I love the idea of not being born an artist. A lot of times, there's this mythology around artists that there's just some sort of inherent genius that gets passed down from the heavens. And I think actually one of the things that makes being an artist so fulfilling as a practice is that it is a practice. It's something that you do over a lifetime, and it’s something that is both a combination of acquired technical skills and also just living in the world, and you're always changing.”
Having said this, Quarles, throughout her entire life, has had a special interest in the figure.
“You're painting or drawing a body, but you're in your own body. We're constantly oscillating between the desire to be seen and understood and the desire to be an authentic self.”
“And it's those moments of excess and those moments of lack that I try to express in the paintings. As well as to create a sense of meaning.”
Christina Quarles (b. 1985) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose practice works to dismantle assumptions and ingrained beliefs surrounding identity and the human figure. Quarles received an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2016 and holds a BA from Hampshire College. She was a 2016 participant at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. She was the inaugural recipient of the 2019 Pérez Art Museum Miami Prize, and in 2017, she received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant.
Quarles’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including ‘The Milk of Dreams,’ the 59th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Cecilia Alemani, and in ‘Manifesto of Fragility,’ the main exhibition of the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, both in 2022. Selected solo exhibitions include In the Shadow of Burning Light, Gammel Strand, Copenhagen (2024); Collapsed Time, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2023); Christina Quarles, MCA Chicago (2021); In Likeness, Hepworth Wakefield (2019).
Christina Quarles was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in April 2024. The interview took place in her studio in Los Angeles, USA.
Camera: Travis LaBella
Edited by: Signe Boe Pedersen
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2024
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complex process and complex images she might be one of the best abstract figurative painters today in my opinion
Incredible artwork
love her humility. I was lucky enough to see her work in person at pilar corrias and one thing you get from seeing her work in person is that she really paints each part of the body with the medium most given to it. so what I mean is that the hair will be painted with a very slick, shiny medium, nipples are painted with dryer, blush-like daubs, and so on and so forth.
what an interesting artist. Best work I've seen on this channel. As someone who is neurodivergent I can relate to what she says about the disconnect of societal perception of ourselves and our own self perception. I also love her juxtaposition of colours. Thank you for sharing her work
“We Knew So Little Then” is incredible. Golly!!
Delightful work. Lucid commentary.
Christina is painting Queen. 🤘
one of the best artists on this channel
Wow! Im bi-racial too (Filipino/white) and that’s exactly how i feel! Your work is dope!!! 🔥🔥🔥🙌🙌🙌
Killer work.
So good!
I saw one of her pieces at the tate modern and I really liked it so looked up her work.
love this work!
9:00 who made the tiny sawhorse step stools and that rolling flat drawers?
Well, being born a genius is a thing.
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Nice Berks