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Keer Tanchak |
b. 1977, North Vancouver, BC
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
Keer Tanchak was born in 1977 in North Vancouver, British Columbia. She received an MFA with fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003 and a BFA with distinction from Concordia University in Montreal in 2000. In 2003 the Canadian Scandinavian Foundation chose Tanchak for the Brucebo Scholarship that funded research and a painting studio on the island of Gotland in Sweden.
Tanchak's work is part of many private and public collections and she has exhibited extensively in Montreal and Chicago as well as in Vancouver, London, Toronto, San Antonio, Indiana and Tampa. Keer Tanchak is also represented in New York by DEAN PROJECT.
"The imagery for my paintings on thin sheets of aluminum is derived from 18th century Rococo sources; namely, the French painters Watteau, Fragonard, Boucher and Lancret. Watteau used most of his figures as 'stock footage' - a limited cast of characters appears continuously in his body of work, their slightly shifted poses and contexts made to seem endlessly unique. I continue to explore these pre-cinematic techniques and introduce a similar cast of characters into dramatically altered environments. The 18th century fascination for decadence and romance, and the political implications of these obsessions, remains a relevant, ongoing cultural narrative." - Keer Tanchak
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