Christine Turner (b. 1990) is a Los Angeles-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 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.
Employing a multitude of motifs that speak to visibility, 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.