Christina Sarquiz

tsarquiz@gmail.com
www.puppettina.com

Statement

Since I began painting in 1992, I have always been drawn to the elements of
abstraction.

I am primarily concerned with the exploration of color: the layering, the intricacies, the
transparencies, and the luminosities that are subtly revealed. Within this exploration, I
am drawn to the possibilities of infinite landscape, and of the structures and plasticity
that the colors create.

Being born and raised in Brooklyn, my work has been influenced by the landscapes
both in and around New York City, and sometimes the lack thereof. As the youngest
child in a large family, my room was located in the middle of the house. The room,
although warm, was devoid of any windows, any conscious view of the outside world.
Painting became that window for me.

My work entertains the strange, fantastic, fictitious landscapes that could exist for me
outside my room.

Often painted from different perspectives, the landscapes emanate a silence for me.
Calmness, a quiet. They tell a story that is not overt. They reveal a forming, an
emergence. They have weight. They are an expanse that did not exist for me, and yet
they are familiar to the structures and buildings that filled the skyline of my surrounding
neighborhoods.

Pascal once referred to “the eternal silence of these infinite spaces…” and although he
was speaking of mathematics, the same holds true for me within my painting.