B.1986
Larissa Tiggelers’ paintings are seemingly formal and deceptively flat, but through slow and sustained looking, their spatial ambiguity unfolds into perceptual richness. Her abstract work refuses traditional indicators of painterly authorship. By limiting the evidence of overt brush strokes these paintings accumulate soft surfaces. Where conventional colour theory seeks to standardize and rationalize colour, Tiggelers’ work embraces colour’s unknowability. She refuses to present tonal assurances and, instead, the paintings affirm colour’s perplexity and vitality through the changing impact of their proximate relationships. Care and attention make her paintings sites of reprieve, release and interruption amid widespread ongoing unease.
Larissa Tiggelers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Regina, on Treaty 4 land. Tiggelers’ work has been exhibited at Norberg Hall (Calgary), Christie Contemporary (Toronto), Erin Stump Projects (Toronto), Galerie D’Este (Montréal), The Bakery (Vancouver), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Dunlop Gallery (Regina), 330g (Saskatoon) and Paniki Gallery (Población Batan, Aklan, Philippines). She holds an MFA from the University of Guelph and a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design. Tiggelers’ creative work has been supported by artist residency opportunities, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Saskatchewan Arts Board, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Tiggelers’ works are included in private, corporate and public collections throughout Canada and internationally including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Art Gallery of Alberta, Saskatchewan Arts Board, and Global Affairs Canada.
