Angela Teng: Up a Lemon Tree

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Angela Teng, "Up a Lemon Tree," 2019

oil through crocheted cotton. Courtesy of the artist and Equinox Gallery.

Saturday, September 14, 6pm-9pm. Artist in attendance.

Evergreen Season Celebration to follow beginning at 7pm. Ticketed event. See our website for details.

A solo exhibition of abstract paintings by Vancouver-based artist Angela Teng opens the Art Gallery at Evergreen’s 2019/20 season. Known for her experimentation with the medium of paint, Teng has gained national recognition for her innovative process of crocheting acrylic into geometric paintings. The artist creates “yarn” by squeezing out and drying lines of paint, which she then crochets together into artworks that hover between painting and sculpture. The entire painstaking process is done by hand.

The artist’s other techniques include crocheting cotton or linen to create a canvas upon which she makes bold, gestural marks, as well as working from the reverse of these handmade canvases to push through a dense coat of oil paint. The medium emerges on the front surface in patterns of extruded drips. In her split monochromes inspired by modernist colour field painting, Teng applies fibre particles to thick swaths of wet oil paint in a process known as flocking. More recently, Teng has started working on a larger scale by crocheting shapes of various colours and sizes and stitching them together, which gives the artist more opportunity to play with composition. While still rooted in abstraction, she is now experimenting with representational imagery, such as a pair of simple flower forms in Tulips (2019).

In her practice, Teng looks at all elements of how to make a painting, from the support (the canvas) to the surface (the painting) and the edge (where image becomes object). In her ongoing explorations of the medium of paint, she continues to push the expected limitations of this material and, in doing so, pushes the boundaries of her own process.

Angela Teng is an artist based in Vancouver. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, including as part of Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2017. Teng was a finalist for the RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2016 and 2017. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, in 2011.

Tour and Demo with Angela Teng: Saturday, October 5 at 2pm-3pm