Tori Tinsley (b.1980) earned a BFA from The University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, an MAAT from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from the Georgia State University Welch School of Art & Design. Her work has been shown in New York, the Gold Coast of Australia, Miami, and Atlanta. Tinsley’s work has been featured in Art Papers and Oxford American, among others, and included in New American Paintings magazine. Tinsley has had solo shows at Laney Contemporary in Savannah, Hathaway Gallery in Atlanta, and Sweet Lorraine Gallery in New York. She is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, a City of Atlanta Emerging Artist Award, and an Idea Capital Grant. She works and resides in Atlanta, GA.

Artist Statement:
Inspired by bonds with my children and with my mother, who suffered from dementia, my work conveys the layered emotional experience of caring for others. Feelings of love, despair, longing, disbelief, loneliness, and hope become subjects (and characters) in my vibrant and unpredictable environments. Steeped in both tenderness and dark humor, my work intends to add to discussions around motherhood, caregiving, and how it feels to love and be loved.

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