Quamaine Giles (b. 1989, Martinsville, VA) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Stone Mountain, Georgia. He builds sculptural abstract paintings from discarded materials—reclaimed wood, clothing, cardboard, paper, and plastic—to restore value to what’s overlooked and challenge how we assign worth.With a B.S. in Computer Engineering and several years in IT, Quamaine approaches the studio with an engineer’s respect for structure—assembling surfaces from scratch, layering paint and mark-making into dense, tactile compositions, and treating framing as part of the work’s final architecture.
In 2024, he debuted his first solo exhibition, Second Chances, a body of work that deepened his ongoing exploration of transformation, memory, and reinvention. His practice extends beyond the canvas: he hosts community-facing workshops and helps cultivate creative space locally, including through his gallery initiative connected to the Gilly Brew Bar community. Quamaine’s work invites viewers to look closer—at material, meaning, and the quiet resilience required to make something lasting from what the world would rather discard.