SCAD deFINE ART artist talks: Christina Quarles and Sarah Crowner

Name: SCAD deFINE ART artist talks: Christina Quarles and Sarah Crowner
Start: 2025-02-26T11:00:00-05:00
Location: 601 Turner Blvd, Savannah, GA

Schedule

Wed, 26 Feb, 2025 at 11:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

601 Turner Blvd, Savannah, GA | Savannah, GA

Join artists Christina Quarles and Sarah Crowner for in-depth conversations exploring their new exhibitions, presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2025. Examine the significance of Quarles’ gestural works on paper as she speaks about the central role drawing holds in her practice and how it informs her distinctive approach to depicting the body. Crowner takes guests through the process of creating her experiential, site-specific installation Platform as Platform as a generous invitation to shift our relationship to painting and reconsider how we see the world.
About the artists
Christina Quarles (b. 1985, Chicago; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art and a B.A. from Hampshire College. Quarles participated in a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is the recipient of the inaugural Pérez Art Museum Miami Prize and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. In 2021 Quarles joined the board of trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Sarah Crowner’s (b. 1974, Philadelphia; lives and works in New York) work has been featured in exhibitions and installations including Beetle in the Leaves, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Mass.; Platform (Blue Green Terracotta for JC), Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; Serpentear, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Blues in Greens | Greens in Blues, Instituto Bardi/Casa de Vidro and Auroras, São Paulo; Around Orange, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis; and The Sea, the Sky, a Window, Hill Art Foundation, New York. An upcoming solo project will be mounted at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, in 2025. Crowner’s work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Contemporary Austin, Texas; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MASS MoCA; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
This event is free and open to the public and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2025.