Los Angeles based contemporary painter whose gestural, semi-abstract figures explore queer identity, mixed-race experience, and gender fluidity. Her work twists anatomy into a field of tension, where desire, perception, and social categories collide, and where the body refuses to stay readable or fixed.
In this tag you will find essays, exhibition notes, and context on Quarles’ practice, key works, and her role in the current return to figuration within contemporary painting.
Christina Quarles, A Little Fall of Rain Christina Quarles: Fluid Identity in Contemporary Painting Christina Quarles (born 1985, Chicago) is a leading contemporary painter known for a
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