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When It'll Dawn on Us, Then Will It Dawn on Us

Christina QuarlesWW-2018-169740

2018·Acrylic on canvas·Overall: 77 × 96 1/8 × 2 in. (195.6 × 244.2 × 5.1 cm)

<p>Christina Quarles, <em>When It'll Dawn on Us, Then Will It Dawn on Us</em>, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, overall: 77 × 96 1/8 × 2 in. (195.6 × 244.2 × 5.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Marcia Dunn and Jonathan Sobel 2020.10. © Christina Quarles, Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Pilar Corrias, London</p>

Catalogue

Year: 2018
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: Overall: 77 × 96 1/8 × 2 in. (195.6 × 244.2 × 5.1 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art
Artist: Christina Quarles

Artist

Christina Quarles

Painting

Born in Chicago in 1985, Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Christina Quarles creates abstract works that explore human bodies as vessels for the endless nuances of identity. Having received her BA from Hampshire College in 2007, where she studied Philosophy and Studio Art, Quarles then earned her MFA at Yale University and participated at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in 2016. In her paintings, which touch upon themes such as racial and sexual identity, figures with outstretched limbs bend and twirl in saturated pigments against planes of solid color and patches of intricate pattern.

Los Angeles, CA, USA

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