Rendered in ink on paper, "Fer Awhile" (2019) presents the kind of fluid, destabilized figuration that has come to define Christina Quarles's practice. Limbs curve and overlap in configurations that resist easy anatomical mapping, the body appearing both present and dissolving, caught in a moment of becoming rather than fixed arrival. The intimacy of the ink-on-paper format suits the work well, the medium's directness and slight translucency lending the composition a quality of spontaneity that amplifies the sense of bodily flux at the heart of Quarles's inquiry. Quarles, born in 1985, approaches figurative work from a multiply situated personal vantage, informed by lived experience at the intersection of racial ambiguity, queerness, and the everyday slippage of fixed identity. Her figures do not resolve into stable subjects; instead, they occupy a kind of excess, spilling past the boundaries that representation typically enforces. This critical project has earned her significant institutional recognition, including the inaugural Pérez Art Museum Miami Prize, alongside an MFA from Yale School of Art, a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and a growing international exhibition history culminating in an upcoming solo presentation at the Hepworth Wakefield. At 33 by 48.3 centimeters, "Fer Awhile" carries the focused energy of a work made in close contact with the hand and the page. Works on paper by Quarles offer collectors a rare entry point into a practice whose gallery paintings command considerable attention, and this signed example, offered through the MCA Chicago Benefit Auction, carries both institutional provenance and the quiet authority of an artist at confident command of her vision.