Monique van Genderen | The Sea Ranch, 2024
Quint Gallery is pleased to present a new suite of paintings made by Monique van Genderen since a summer stay in Sea Ranch, a beacon of modernist architecture located on Highway 1 in Sonoma County and set between the coast and the Gualala river. In addition to van Genderen's paintings, there will be a short film and documentation of the central painting in progress by Lile Kvantaliani, and an original poem by Jennifer Moxley, responding to the film.
Her work may be found in the collections of AIG Sun America Inc., Los Angeles, CA; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Peoria, IL; Eileen Harris and Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA; Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain; KB Home, Los Angeles, CA; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany; MCA San Diego; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
She is the recipient of a Project Commission for Murals for La Jolla; the Chiaro Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Federal Courthouse Building Art Commission for the GSA, Arts and Architecture Program, Harrisburg, PA; and the West Hollywood 1% for the Arts Public Art Commission, West Hollywood, CA. In 2006, van Genderen was shortlisted for the Castellón County Council III International Painting Prize, Castellón, Spain and, in 2004, was an Artist in Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX.
Jennifer Moxley is a poet, essayist, and translator born and raised in San Diego. She studied at University of California, San Diego and the University of Rhode Island, where she completed her BA, and Brown University, where she earned an MFA. She is the author of Druthers (Flood Editions, 2018), The Open Secret (Flood Editions, 2014), Clampdown (Flood Editions, 2009), The Middle Room (subpress, 2008), Often Capital (Flood Editions, 2005), The Sense Record and other poems (Edge Books, 2002; rpt. Salt Editions, 2003), and Imagination Verses (Tender Buttons, 1996; rpt. Salt Editions, 2003). Enlightenment Evidence (rem press, 1996) was translated into French as Evidence des Lumières at the Fondation Royaumont in 1998. She has translated two books by the French poet and scholar Jacqueline Risset: a book of essays titled Sleep’s Powers (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) and a book of poems, The Translation Begins (Burning Deck, 1996). In 2010, her translation of Anne Portugal’s Absolute bob was published by Burning Deck. She was the poetry editor for The Baffler magazine from 1997-2010 and a contributing editor of The Poker magazine from 2003-2008. Moxley teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine.
Lile Kvantaliani is a photographer focused on artist portraits and collaborations. She has photographed artists between San Diego, New York, Mexico, and Paris; capturing and archiving the interior world of artists in their live and work spaces. Recent artistic collaborations include two short films with artist Jean Lowe on the occasion of her solo exhibitions at Quint Gallery and Luis de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles. In 2022, she collaborated with Chicago/San Diego-based artist Ethan Chan with a series of portraits of Chan's friends and familymembers wearing tailor-made outfits he made from fast-food sauce packets. She was born in the country of Georgia, moved to the US in 2010, and now lives and works in New York City.
