In this new body of work created for Marquez Art Projects, de Miguel employs a substantial and uniform scale, and seems to zoom in on her subjects to create larger-than-life figures. Yet expanded, the figures do not come into sharper focus; instead, the bodies seem to disintegrate.

De Miguel’s painted figures are like composites, in which each section of the body seems to exist independently of the others, an effect most apparent in Your Body is Pieces (2022). In some paintings, amorphous forms devolve into mere outline; in others they melt and meld into emotive expanses. De Miguel’s figures possess speed, and in works like The Sink, Falling in Yellow, and El Viento (all 2022) seem they are on the verge of escape. Taken as a group, these sublime compositions radiate a churning energy that supplants interpretation with raw feeling, while drawing one’s attention to the vibrancy the painting’s surface.
— text by Amanda Morgan

Cristina de Miguel (b. 1987, Seville, Spain) lives and works in Brooklyn. She earned a BFA from the University of Seville in 2010 and an MFA from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, in 2012. Her solo exhibitions include “El Caer y el Viento,” Villa Magdalena, Spain (2023), “Wheels, Flying Bodies, And Other Stories,” Fredericks & Freiser, New York (2022), and “Procession Paintings,” Tennis Elbow at The Journal, New York (2021), among others, and her work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions including “Cristina de Miguel and Jenny Brosinsky,” Almine Rech, New York (2023), “Reflections: Partly Fiction,” WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong (2022), and “I do my own stunts,” Amanita, Los Angeles (2022). She is represented by Fredericks & Freiser, New York.