Christina Quarles: In 24 Days tha Sun'll Set at 7pm
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Francis Bacon is having a moment. I’m seeing his compressed illusionism and his splayed figuration in a few places recently. The paintings in Christina Quarles’s show at Hauser & Wirth are not tortured in the same way as Bacon’s, thankfully. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) What I had seen online of her work did not prepare me for how engaging I would find these paintings in person.
Christina Quarles: In 24 Days tha Sun'll Set at 7pm
Christina Quarles: In 24 Days tha Sun'll Set…
Christina Quarles: In 24 Days tha Sun'll Set at 7pm
Francis Bacon is having a moment. I’m seeing his compressed illusionism and his splayed figuration in a few places recently. The paintings in Christina Quarles’s show at Hauser & Wirth are not tortured in the same way as Bacon’s, thankfully. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) What I had seen online of her work did not prepare me for how engaging I would find these paintings in person.