French visual artist, painter and engraver (born 1940)
Mariette Teisserenc, born in Grand-Couronne (Seine-Maritime, France), on March 3, 1940, is a French visual artist, painter and engraver. She is also known as "Teisse" or "Teisse-Renc".
Trained as a Graphic designer at Düsseldorf's School of Decorative Arts (1967–1972), she gave up a career in the advertising industry in 1978 to dedicate herself to her artistic practice.
As an abstract painter and advocate for recognition of women artists in France and abroad, she was the President of the French women artists' group "Art et Regard des Femmes".
Her work is characterized by clean shapes, strong lines and the invariable use of the colour black. It expresses tensions between forms and the search for equilibrium.
In 1969, Teisserenc was awarded a Second Prize for Graphic-Design from the company Henkel &amp; Cie GmbH (Düsseldorf, West-Germany). In 1971, she received first prize from the Nordwestdeutsche Austellungsgesellschaft mbH (NOWEA, Messe Düsseldorf). In 1983, she received a silver medal from the Bilan de l'Art Contemporain Foundation (Melun-Almont, France).
In 1996, the Association française d’action artistique (part of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry) and the Ministry for Indigenous Affairs of Quebec awarded her a grant to travel to the Nunavik region and study the use of the ulu, a knife specific to Inuit women. She exhibited the results of her work in 1998 at Riverin-Arlogos Gallery, Eastman, Canada.
Mariette Teisserenc was president of the French feminist artists collective Art et regard des femmes.
In 2012, Teisserenc designed the stained glass windows of Saint-Peter and Saint-Paul Church in Brûlon-sur-Sarthe, France.
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