Christina Quarles: Now We're There (And We're Only Just Begun)

LACMA Los Angeles · Mid-City

Exhibition on view: May 3, 2026 - Sep 30, 2026

Christina Quarles’s Now We’re There (And We’re Only Just Begun) (2023) inaugurates LACMA’s W.M. Keck Foundation Gallery series devoted to contemporary artists. Through luminous, intertwining figures, Quarles explores embodiment, identity, and perception, inviting viewers to reflect on how personal experience shapes the ways we see ourselves and one another.

Artist

Christina Quarles

Christina Quarles (b. 1985, Chicago) is an American artist known for paintings of fragmented, intertwined bodies that challenge fixed ideas of identity, gender, and representation. Using vivid color, layered patterns, and shifting perspectives, she places ambiguous figures within unstable spaces, exploring embodiment, intimacy, ambiguity, and the complexities of being seen.