Corri-Lynn Tetz
b. Calgary, AB
CV
"My paintings are personal re-takes of the figure in landscape. Using found photos as references, I work without sketches, allowing forms and content to emerge, gradually, as I paint. In this, I am interested in charged point of interactions between figures and/or the landscape, as well, in the ways meaning shifts, opens or reconfigures, as a found photo becomes a painting. Subsequently, in collecting, and transforming representations of women’s bodies, my intention is to speak to a history that was not meant for me – to personalize figures and re-work images so that they speak more to experience than a mastering gaze."
Interested in ritual, communal intimacy and strange mystical events, Tetz’s paintings are drawn from the romantic histories of a figure in landscape and the seemingly endless possibilities of surface and form. Evoking memory or a distant, artificial arcadia, the affect is often more poetic than narrative - with bodies and nature activated through inventive figuration, high key and muted colour combinations, abstract interventions and intuitive gestures.
Born in Calgary, Alberta, Tetz lives and works in Montreal. She obtained her MFA at Concordia University (2015) and he BFA at Emily Carr University (2008). Her work was featured in the Magenta Foundation's publication Carte Blanche: A Survey of Canadian Painting and in 2012 she was a finalist in the RBC Painting Competition. Furthermore she is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (2017), the Brucebo Foundation, Sweden (2016), or the Conseil des Art et des Lettres du Quebec (2015) among others. Most recently her work was featured in the touring exhibition American Fine Art " life's not fair and people don't act right" through the BBQLA, Los Angeles.
CV
"My paintings are personal re-takes of the figure in landscape. Using found photos as references, I work without sketches, allowing forms and content to emerge, gradually, as I paint. In this, I am interested in charged point of interactions between figures and/or the landscape, as well, in the ways meaning shifts, opens or reconfigures, as a found photo becomes a painting. Subsequently, in collecting, and transforming representations of women’s bodies, my intention is to speak to a history that was not meant for me – to personalize figures and re-work images so that they speak more to experience than a mastering gaze."
Interested in ritual, communal intimacy and strange mystical events, Tetz’s paintings are drawn from the romantic histories of a figure in landscape and the seemingly endless possibilities of surface and form. Evoking memory or a distant, artificial arcadia, the affect is often more poetic than narrative - with bodies and nature activated through inventive figuration, high key and muted colour combinations, abstract interventions and intuitive gestures.
Born in Calgary, Alberta, Tetz lives and works in Montreal. She obtained her MFA at Concordia University (2015) and he BFA at Emily Carr University (2008). Her work was featured in the Magenta Foundation's publication Carte Blanche: A Survey of Canadian Painting and in 2012 she was a finalist in the RBC Painting Competition. Furthermore she is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (2017), the Brucebo Foundation, Sweden (2016), or the Conseil des Art et des Lettres du Quebec (2015) among others. Most recently her work was featured in the touring exhibition American Fine Art " life's not fair and people don't act right" through the BBQLA, Los Angeles.
