Christine Turner (b. 1990) is a Los Angeles-based artist originally from Upstate New York. She 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 Roberts Projects (Los Angeles), Ahmanson Gallery (Irvine, CA), Green Gallery (Milwaukee), Leiminspace (Los Angeles), Inland Empire Museum of Art (Los Angeles), and Elmhurst Art Museum (Chicago), among others.
Turner is interested in perceptual absence and presence– understanding what we can and can’t see– from a philosophical, socio-political, and physiological perspective. Rooted in her own embodied experience of abstracted vision, where she primarily sees out of one eye, her paintings operate as paradoxical meditations: forever searching for a sense of fractured wholeness. Employing a multitude of motifs that speak to visibility, her paintings explore literal and metaphorical blind spots through the language of abstraction. Flickering eyelashes, fluorescent suns, glitching camouflage, malfunctioning green screens, and vision tests gone awry dance together to create fields of visual vertigo.
