Corri-Lynn Tetz: Art Lover

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Photographer: Eric Tschaeppeler

Corri-Lynn Tetz, "Art Lover, " 2021

oil on canvas, Courtesy of the artist and Norberg Hall.

Corri-Lynn Tetz: Art Lover

Opening Reception: November 4, 2021 at 6pm - 10 pm

Corri-Lynn Tetz works as a painter, focusing on the female figure as a way to explore identity, sensation and desire. Borrowing 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.

Invested 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. Tetz’s works speak to the history of painting, assumptions of viewership and authorship, as well as the ways she sees the performance of femininity both absorbed and rejected.