Fall resident artist Mamie Tinkler will present about her sculpture and installation work across a 45-minute slideshow of images, followed by audience questions. This presentation will be hosted by Frederico Câmara (Assistant Professor of Art, Photography) and Martha Poggioli (Professor of Practice, Interdisciplinary Art and Curation, and Pollock Gallery Director) and concludes Mamie’s full-day at Meadows, touring and visiting BFA / MFA studios.
MAMIE TINKLER
New York, New York - Painting - 2nd floor studio
Over the past decade, Mamie Tinkler has developed an approach to still life that uses photography and theatrical lighting to create scenes that border on the surreal. Her work uses the camera, along with found objects, mirrors, lighting gels, and foreshortened perspectives, to find images that have the frisson of familiarity and the haze of the only-imagined. In Corsicana, she will use the expansive space afforded to resident artists to try new methods of making images. Tinkler’s recent work has considered the category of ‘practical effects’ - that is, special effects not derived from computer-generated imagery or camera manipulation. This line of thinking seems urgent now, as machines are able to produce images that seem as credible as photography. How might we access the sense of 'magic' when it is so easily dictated to an algorithm? Tinkler will use the space and time afforded by Corsicana to explore painting from life, setting up multiple scenarios throughout the studio space. What does it mean to leave the camera aside, and use only the moment, and our senses? How do physical space, our immediate surroundings, limit or expand pictorial space in painting? In both watercolor and oil paintings, using both lens-based and observational strategies, Tinkler will develop a new set of images that use a longer horizon, a bigger stage.
Mamie Tinkler was born in Memphis, Tennessee and currently lives and works in New York, NY. Tinkler’s paintings deploy still life and photorealism as processes without fitting neatly in either genre. She stages and photographs scenes using found and collected objects, theatrical lighting, mirrors, and painted backdrops. The photographs serve as starting points for paintings that bridge the real and the ethereal. Tinkler earned her BA from Columbia University and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, Artforum, Patron Magazine, and Modern Painters, among others. She was recently included in Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968, at LA MoCA (2024). Tinkler has exhibited at Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY (2023, 2020, solo); Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN (2023, solo); Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH (2024); The Suburban, Oak Park, IL (2015, solo); and Kerry Schuss, New York, NY (2015) among others. (above: Studio Portrait © Daniel Greer, 2024). www.mamietinkler.com
Stole, 2021, watercolor and gouache on paper mounted to dibond, 13 x 11”
Auto Portrait Yorick, watercolor, 16 x 19”
Stagecraft, 2025, oil on linen over panel, 12 x 9”
Proscenium, 2024, oil on aluminum panel (framed), 30 ¼ x 40 ¼”
Felix Culpa, 2024, oil on paper mounted to board (framed), 16 ¼ x 12 ¼”