Statement
Grief, awe, the mysterious object, the kind of joy that makes you cry; I paint, scratch, and scribble through the expressive, layered processes of printmaking.
Print becomes my ideal form for a big soup of non-linear stories and study of relationships - between shape and color, between self and others - breaking and reconnecting fragments of big feelings into unique images.
These playful meditations stretch repetition and poke at the simplest structures, making a home for the contrasts and nuance held by each of us.
On process and whys: a video essay
A peek at my printmaking process from drawing to printing, along with some thoughts on the way we bridge association and make meaning, in the context of my art practice.
Bio
tikva (tēk-və)
Tikva Lantigua is a visual artist with a writing practice, combining language, image, and increasingly bright colors to study the glue of human connection, and the expanse and pitfalls of language to describe our interior worlds.
Born to Dominican parents, brought up in the American South, from one army base to another. Tikva earned an MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016, and her first solo exhibition in September 2020 at Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA. Living and making in Atlanta, GA, adopted hometown.
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tikva.lantigua@gmail.com
Metro Atlanta, Georgia, USA
EDUCATION
MFA Studio Art Print Media Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 2016
BFA Printmaking Magna Cum Laude Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA 2013
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2021 & Haystack Mtn. School of Crafts Teaching, Technical Assistant
2019
2018 Penland School of Craft Windgate Scholarship
Andrea Zittel’s A-Z West Work-trade Resident
2017 Carrizozo Colony Residency Program Artist-in-Residence
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2020 Flatpack Publications
A Tiny Public No. 2
Digital pub. of contributing artists
2019 Flatpack Publications
SKY WRITING
Collaborative edition of risograph postcards
2018 Inbtwn. Magazine, Nostalgia, Issue 07
2017 Yes Ma’am Press, Issue 11: The Body Issue
Fall Line Press, IRL, Zine
2016 665 Days, Artist’s book published sold through Fall Line Press
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
2023 Refraction Error, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
Solo Exhibition
Yet to come, the Art Station, Kennesaw, GA, Solo Exhibition
2022 Screenprint Biennial, Opalka Gallery, Sage Colleges, Tuft Uni.,
Albany, NY
Printmaker’s Pop-up, Mountain View Art Alliance, Marietta, GA
2020 Motherlode (Solo Show), Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA
2019 Open Studios, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, ME
Hundreds of Thousands, The Dude Ranch, Austin, TX
2012- 19’ Open Studio SCAD Atlanta, GA
2019 Night of Performance and Installation, Penland School, NC
2018 Generally Local, Mostly Independent Film Festival, WonderRoot, Plaza Theater, Atlanta, GA
2017 Lyric Theater Screening, Carrizozo Colony, Carrizozo, NM
2016 Impossible Biology , Archer Beach Haus, Chicago, IL
Cranbrook Thesis Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, MI
Mercedes-Benz Corporate Collection, MI
2015 A Hawk and a Handsaw, Cranbrook, MI
2014 Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, Cranbrook, MI
Fresh Blood, Mason Murer Gallery Atlanta, GA
Troposcope, Cherry Lion Gallery