Mamie Tinkler
Artist in Residence
July / August 2023

Mamie Tinkler is a painter of intimately scaled, meticulously observed watercolor still lifes that incorporate objects with past lives. Her work proposes confusion between illusionistic depth and painterly surface.

Mamie Tinkler lives and works in New York, NY. She graduated from Columbia University with BA in 2000 and obtained a MFA from Hunter College in 2005. Tinkler’s work has been exhibited at solo and group exhibitions including Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY (solo 2020, 2021); Tops Gallery, Memphis (2022); The Armory Show, New York, NY (2020); The Suburban, Oak Park, IL (solo, 2015); Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY (2014); and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY (2011). Tinkler’s exhibitions and works have received coverage in the New York Times, Artforum, and Art in America.

To learn more about Mamie Tinkler, please visit mamietinkler.com

Books Chosen for the Lab Library by
Mamie Tinkler

Heat Waves in a Swamp:
The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
Dave Hickey, Tullis Johnson, Nancy Weekly, Cynthia Burlingham (Editor), Robert Gober (Editor)

The Flame Throwers
by Rachel Kushner

Archival Collections Used by
Mamie Tinkler

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