Corri-Lynn Tetz’s work as a painter, focuses on the female figure as way to explore identity, sensation and longing. Working from personal archives, fashion photography, film and pornography, she is interested in the ways images and meaning are transformed through painting and how this process disrupts notions of the gaze to re-imagine pictorial space. In this, intuitive paint handling distances each piece from its source, as she often uses disparate colour, and inventive figuration, to create the impression of transformation. Her intention is that each painting occupies a space between representation and abstraction - that form provides enough information to convey bodies and space, without losing the immediacy of that first, energized, layer of paint.
Corri-Lynn Tetz was born in Calgary, Alberta and now lives and works in Montreal. She studied painting at Emily Carr University and graduated from the MFA program at Concordia University. Tetz has received support from the Conseil des Art et des Lettres du Quebec, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and in 2016, was awarded the Brucebo Residency Fellowship, in Gotland Sweden. Tetz’s paintings have been exhibited widely across Canada and the US, including Kasmin Gallery and Nino Meir (NYC), Arsenal Gallery (Montreal and NYC), Blouin Division (Montreal), Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles), and upcoming in Jan 2024 at Gallery 12.26 (Dallas).
Corri-Lynn Tetz's residency at NARS is made possible by The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation.
