Anna Teiche’s work explores intersections between landscape painting, climate change, and illness. Her current body of work began in 2021, while caring for her partner while he underwent treatment for cancer. During this time, Teiche became interested in documenting connections between illness and environmental disasters. She uses abstraction and material experimentation across oils, gouache, and pastel to question what our eyes see — mirroring the uncertainty, disbelief, and confusion of an unexpected diagnosis. Each painting is a process of searching, a buildup of play and experimentation. Elemental land forms like volcanoes, caves, canyons and mountains often appear, representing an emotional range: The explosive to the slow burn, the uncertainty of smoke on a hidden horizon, drawing us closer while never revealing what lies ahead.

Bio:

Anna Teiche is a painter based in Seattle, WA. She holds an MFA in Painting & Drawing from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BFA in Art & Design from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her work has been exhibited nationally in spaces including the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (WA), The Visual Arts Center (TX), Cal Poly University Art Gallery (CA), and Unsmoked Systems (PA), among others. She has received project grants from the Dallas Museum of Art (2023), and Artist Trust (2019), and attended residencies including Vermont Studio Center, NES (Iceland), and Rockland Woods (WA).