Recorded live at the Art Papers Symposium in Atlanta, this episode features a deeply personal and wide-ranging conversation with Tori Tinsley. Joined by Brian Andrews and Duncan MacKenzie, Tinsley reflects on caregiving, grief, motherhood, and the evolution of her “hug” figures across painting, sculpture, and animation.
Her practice emerges from lived experience, particularly her mother’s diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia, and expands into a broader inquiry into emotional labor, embodiment, and the absurdity of contemporary life. Humor, instability, and tenderness coexist in work that resists resolution while remaining deeply accessible.
Name Drop List (with links)
Tori Tinsley — https://www.google.com/search?q=Tori+Tinsley+artist
Brian Andrews — https://www.brianandrews.org/
Duncan MacKenzie — https://kurasmackenzie.com/
Art Papers — https://www.artpapers.org/
School of the Art Institute of Chicago — https://www.saic.edu/
Georgia State University (GSU) — https://artdesign.gsu.edu/
William Kentridge — https://www.kentridge.studio/
Brené Brown — https://brenebrown.com/
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