Christine Turner

b. 1990, lives and works in Chicago, USA
Christine Turner received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2020. Her work explores literal and metaphorical blindspots through the language of abstract painting. Coming from her own embodied experience of abstracted vision, her paintings incorporate visual phenomena, disruptions to sight, and motifs of visibility. She embraces perceptual and formal abstraction as a way to create a visceral and optically charged experience for the viewer. Painting with hi-visibility fluorescent, metallic, and interference paint she aims to create work that is simultaneously ‘high-alert’ in it’s immediate reception and quiet in the way that it requires persistent perception.