Alice Teichert
Abstract painter working from the movement of writing rather than from what writing says.
Alice Teichert is a German-born Canadian painter who studied in Europe and North America and works principally in abstraction derived from the physical act of writing. The paintings use the gesture of script — its rhythm, pressure, direction and spacing — without producing words, so what remains is the movement rather than the message, worked in layered oil and mixed media across the surface. She has taught and exhibited principally in Canada, and the work sits within a long tradition of calligraphic abstraction that runs from the post-war informel painters through to contemporary practice.
A specialist market, principally Canadian, developed through gallery representation rather than the auction rooms, and comparables are therefore thin: retail gallery prices and any secondary value can diverge considerably, and provenance to the original gallery is the strongest documentation most works carry. Unique paintings on canvas and panel are the substance of the output, alongside works on paper. Layered oil and mixed-media surfaces on absorbent grounds should not be varnished, and matt passages mark easily. This is a name where a current valuation is worth taking rather than assuming.
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