Honestly same. Courtesy of the Frye Art Museum
The first show is from LA-based painter Christina Quarles whose fleshy renderings of bodies positioned every which way—on their knees, backs, sides, shoulders—are thrown against patterned backgrounds to create stirring, moody paintings. Her figures’ limbs are long, composed of colored tones of pink, brown, and green with paint that drips down the canvas. It’s sexy and weird and full of feeling. The self-titled show is a survey of Quarles’ work from the past three years and is the largest presentation of hers to date. It also marks the US debut of what the press materials call “a large-scale installation that playfully references
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