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Tammi Campbell
Tammi Campbell (b. 1974) is a Canadian painter based in Saskatoon. Her work responds to abstract and minimalist painting tradition by referencing works by artists such as Agnes Martin, Frank Stella, or Sol LeWitt. Campbell is best known for hard-edge paintings in progress, with particular focus on the Modernists’ use of tape. Campbell humorously probes the specificity of the medium of painting and the fetishism of the creative process through paintings made in the style of trompe l’œil, but which appear to remain unfinished. Her “in progress” and “unfinished” aesthetic draws upon various materials and peripheral activities that are specific to the art world, and which contribute to a deep questioning of the value attributed to painting and to the artist’s craft. In fact, her work tends to generate both anticipation and confusion, and nullifies the usual analytical codes inherent in the act of contemplating an artwork.