Richard Tinkler's paintings and drawings reflect an approach that is instinctual and labor intensive. A queering of impressionist convention, Tinkler presents a new perspective on the historically heterosexual and masculine genre of abstract painting. His intricately layered pieces are simultaneously rigidly structured and hallucinatory, emanating light and shadow through tonal shift. Central to Tinkler’s practice are his meticulously and obsessively rendered drawings. Tinkler’s drawings are kaleidoscopic abstractions that utilize a gridded compositional strategy to create complex and energetic geometries. Each drawing is developed over numerous sittings, and requires between twenty and thirty hours of diligence to reach a finished state.

Tinkler received a BA in 1999 from the University of North Texas, and an MFA in 2003 from Hunter College.