Alice Teichert
(1959–)
Alice Teichert
1959–
Alice Teichert (1959– ) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, two- and three-dimensional text works, printmaking, and performance. Inspired by medieval manuscripts and music notation, her abstract works include illegible lettering that encourages the viewer to explore the formal qualities of language and the spaces around the text. Offering a variety of multidimensional interpretations, her work is known for its bold colours and its layers of translucent glazes that further obscure her textual drawings. Teichert’s body of work aims to provoke transformation, providing an entry point through which the viewer can decipher her visual poems and enter another space.
Born in Paris, France, Teichert grew up in Belgium where she studied music, philosophy, and visual arts. She went on to obtain a diploma in Fine Arts from the École des Beaux-Arts de Valence in the south of France in 1984. Upon completing her studies, she immigrated to Toronto where, between 1985 and 1989, she independently studied North American abstract painting. Through connections with painter Jack Bush, she received a number of studio visits during this period from Clement Greenberg, Karen Wilkin, and other significant art critics. Beginning in 1989, she began to build her international artistic career.
Her work has been the subject of over 30 solo exhibitions across France, Canada, Switzerland, and Australia. Her paintings, prints, and text works are held in numerous public, private, and corporate collections internationally, including the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada, the Musée de la Ville de Valence, France, and the Museumsquartier of Lübeck, Germany. A monograph of her work titled In) Formation – On the Philosophy and Art of Alice Teichert by Dagmar Täube was published in 2017. She is represented by Oeno Gallery in Prince Edward County, Peter Robertson Gallery in Edmonton, and Halde Galerie in Widen, Switzerland. She currently works from her studio in Port Hope, Ontario.