Christina Quarles: Won’t Fear Tumbling or Falling/If We’ll be Joined in Another World

The exhibition includes nine paintings made between March and September 2020, a period during the pandemic where Quarles spent in the confines of her home and studio in Altadena.

Facing both disconnection and disorientation during quarantine, Quarles observed the shifts of seasons in Los Angeles, in contrast to the relentless chaos of the world, witnessed via the portal of her computer and phone. The legibility of gender and race—what it means to live in a racialized, gendered, queer body and how perceptions of us influence our interactions with others and our environments—has always been a focus of Quarles’s work.