“I make art as a way of processing the world. My most recent body of work has been entirely a reaction to the time in which I live. I was interested in slowing down the onslaught of media imagery and taking a longer, closer look at the faces of those in power. As the political situation has changed, these paintings have become a form of personal protest. In using current political figures as a main subject of my work, I do take a position. I am not neutral. I use my painting to shine a light on things that I find disturbing. At the same time, I am looking for beauty if not in form, then in color and composition. Painting offers me a way to slow time down to take a longer, closer look at people in power who may be hiding behind the scenes. I have focused mainly on portraits because they have allowed me to stare into the eyes of people. To engage my curiosity about my subjects and their inner world. To find some reminder of our shared humanity even if it is our shared depravity, some connection to what it is to be human in this world, this country, at this time."

Quinn received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2002, and has studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia and at the Art Students League in New York. She won the Leeway Grant for Women in 2002 for the completion of an outdoor sculpture in Philadelphia, and did a month-long artist residency in Costa Rica in 2008. Several of her paintings have been published in Scoundrel Times and The Nation. She has shown her work in juried shows and galleries in Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Tennessee.The body content of your post goes here. To edit this text, click on it and delete this default text and start typing your own or paste your own from a different source.