Spotlight Artist

Christine Turner

Pacific Coast
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Spilt/Split

Abstract painting with vibrant splashes of green, yellow, pink, red, and purple.

Flashe, acrylic, and oil on canvas

Green Screen Window VII

Abstract green painting with colorful dotted patterns and intersecting vertical lines

Flashe, acrylic, and oil on canvas

Shift II

Abstract illustration with swirling colors, dots, and a dark silhouette on a green background.

Flashe, acrylic, and oil on canvas

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Artist Statement

 Employing a multitude of motifs that speak to visibility, Christine Turner’s paintings explore literal and metaphorical blind spots through the language of perceptual and formal abstraction. Rooted in her own embodied experience of abstracted vision, Turner’s paintings function as fields for visual vertigo. Glitching camouflage, fluorescent suns, malfunctioning green screens, and vision tests gone awry dance together to create meditations on the simultaneity of visual absence and presence.

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