Iana Quesnell examines nomadism and temporary living situations, engaging drawing as a mediating tool between her own body and her immediate surroundings. Self-referential and experientially driven, Quesnell’s large pencil and charcoal on paper pieces have the quality of multi-dimensional cartographies that follow her own movements through a specific territory, narrowing in on the particular coordinates where she settles for longer or shorter periods of time.

Quesnell takes a variety of viewpoints on her chosen tracking assignment, from topographical and urban maps, to carefully tape-measured floor plans and schematics of the apartments and artist’s studios she inhabits and the objects within them. For her Cerca Series, she presents several new large-scale drawings and an animation that respond to the binational experience of living in Tijuana while working at her San Diego studio. Less interested in the idea of borders and limits than in exploring the connections and permeability between delimited territories, Quesnell’s drawings for this exhibition represent a series of interlinked narratives across physical and temporal divides.