For this issue, La Vague gleans eight female figure-oriented images from artist R.H. Quaytman’s ‘Chapter’ series. Since 2001, Quaytman has layered subject, meaning, and form in what she calls a ‘grammar of painting,’ combining photographically based imagery, optical patterns, and gesso on wood panel. Her works involve her response to history and cultural motifs, site-specific content, and reverberations from previous ‘Chapters’ in the series. Quaytman has been widely exhibited, with recent solo exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (“Morning, Ch. 30” currently on view thru February 6 2017—www.moca.org ), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Miguel Abreu, and Gladstone Gallery. Her work is in major collections of the Whitney, MoMA, Guggenheim, SF MoMA, and Tate Modern.

Featured in this issue, from left to right:
Cherchez Holopherne, Chapter 21, 2011
Distracting Distance, Chapter 16 (K8 Hardy), 2010
I Love—The Eyelid Clicks / I See /Cold Poetry, Chapter 18, 2010
O Topico, Chapter 27, 2014
Beard, Chapter 19, 2010
Spine, Chapter 20, 2010 - 2011
Cherchez Holopherne, Chapter 21, 2011
Distracting Distance, Chapter 16 (K8 Hardy), 2010

“…attention, whether from a gaze or a glance, can be contained, reflected, and distracted.” —R.H. Quaytman (www.www.gladstonegallery.com/artist/r-h-quaytman).