Christine Turner 'Sticky Fingers II'
"Sticky Fingers II", Fluorescent and Interference Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 12", 2020.
Artist Statement
My investment in abstract painting comes from my embodied experience of abstracted vision. These disruptions to my vision come in the form of overlapping perspectives, blurring, and blindspots leaving me investigating what’s missing and unaddressed in my viewing of the world. Making work in systems of ambiguated truth and distorted vision, I explore literal and metaphorical blindspots. I embrace perceptual and formal abstraction in the blurring of edges, allusions to vision tests, imagery of camouflage, green screens, and the transparency grid of Photoshop, as a way to create a visceral and optically charged experience for the viewer.
Artist Bio
Christine Turner (b. 1990) is a Chicago-based artist originally from Upstate New York. She recently graduated with her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2020, earning the Carrie Ellen Tuttle Fellowship in Painting. Her work has been exhibited at Leiminspace (Los Angeles), Inland Empire Museum of Art (Los Angeles), JAW Gallery (Chicago), SAIC Galleries (Chicago), Elmhurst Art Museum (Chicago), Mooch Gallery (Chicago), and The Earl & Virginia Green Gallery (Los Angeles).
"Sticky Fingers II", Fluorescent and Interference Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 12", 2020.
Artist Statement
My investment in abstract painting comes from my embodied experience of abstracted vision. These disruptions to my vision come in the form of overlapping perspectives, blurring, and blindspots leaving me investigating what’s missing and unaddressed in my viewing of the world. Making work in systems of ambiguated truth and distorted vision, I explore literal and metaphorical blindspots. I embrace perceptual and formal abstraction in the blurring of edges, allusions to vision tests, imagery of camouflage, green screens, and the transparency grid of Photoshop, as a way to create a visceral and optically charged experience for the viewer.
Artist Bio
Christine Turner (b. 1990) is a Chicago-based artist originally from Upstate New York. She recently graduated with her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2020, earning the Carrie Ellen Tuttle Fellowship in Painting. Her work has been exhibited at Leiminspace (Los Angeles), Inland Empire Museum of Art (Los Angeles), JAW Gallery (Chicago), SAIC Galleries (Chicago), Elmhurst Art Museum (Chicago), Mooch Gallery (Chicago), and The Earl & Virginia Green Gallery (Los Angeles).
"Sticky Fingers II", Fluorescent and Interference Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 12", 2020.
Artist Statement
My investment in abstract painting comes from my embodied experience of abstracted vision. These disruptions to my vision come in the form of overlapping perspectives, blurring, and blindspots leaving me investigating what’s missing and unaddressed in my viewing of the world. Making work in systems of ambiguated truth and distorted vision, I explore literal and metaphorical blindspots. I embrace perceptual and formal abstraction in the blurring of edges, allusions to vision tests, imagery of camouflage, green screens, and the transparency grid of Photoshop, as a way to create a visceral and optically charged experience for the viewer.
Artist Bio
Christine Turner (b. 1990) is a Chicago-based artist originally from Upstate New York. She recently graduated with her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2020, earning the Carrie Ellen Tuttle Fellowship in Painting. Her work has been exhibited at Leiminspace (Los Angeles), Inland Empire Museum of Art (Los Angeles), JAW Gallery (Chicago), SAIC Galleries (Chicago), Elmhurst Art Museum (Chicago), Mooch Gallery (Chicago), and The Earl & Virginia Green Gallery (Los Angeles).