Christina Quarles

$35.00 at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

In Quarles’ paintings, limbs, torsos and faces collide and merge with familiar domestic objects made strange through color and gesture. Los Angeles–based artist Christina Quarles (born 1985) paints bodies that are subjected not only to the weight and gravity of the physical world but also to the pleasures and pressures of the social realm. Her work explores the universal experience of existing within a body, as well as the ways race, gender and sexuality intersect to form complex identities. Quarles, whose…