artist Biography
Teale Hatheway is a Los Angeles based artist known for her mixed media paintings and installations of local architecture, streetlights and ornamental details. Inspired by her Los Angeles family heritage, Hatheway's work creates connections with other inhabitants of and visitors to her hometown.
At its core, Hatheway’s work is about people. She contemplates ideas of memory, experience and the soulful residues left behind as people inhabit, focus on, use and pass through physical spaces. Hatheway uses the visual languages of architecture, infrastructure, color and pattern to suggest the depth and complexity of the life of the city. Through these visual clues, her abstract paintings tease recognition but require intentional inquiry to decipher. They beg viewers to unplug and tune into the tangible history surrounding them: becoming present and connecting with a community.
Hatheway’s paintings and installations possess a formal beauty which she turns on its head with joyful color and abstraction. Negative space is an active participant in Hatheway’s works. Much like the spaces between buildings, negative space allows the work to breathe. It creates a counterpoint to the colorful or filigreed elements. In addition to paint, pencil, ink, spray-paint, bleach and pastels, Hatheway experiments with a range of painting grounds. Selected for their material qualities such as texture (coarse linen), opacity (frosted plexiglass) and reflectiveness (gold leaf) these grounds convey distinct elements of earthiness, etherealness and luminousness.
As a fifth generation Angeleno, Hatheway consumes local heritage and examines how, for most people in Los Angeles, that heritage becomes deeply multi-cultural… and elusive. Hatheway’s artworks speak to viewers through their personal, soulful experiences of place and, when recognized, spark a sense of familiarity, joy and even pride. Hatheway’s work embraces tradition, while creating room for concept to ignite imagination.
Teale Hatheway is an American artist (b. 1978, Pasadena, CA) living and working in Los Angeles, California. After extended study at University College London’s Slade School of Fine Art, Hatheway received her BA from Scripps College (Claremont, CA) in 2000. Galleries, museums and alternative spaces throughout Southern California have exhibited her abstract architectural paintings, including George Billis (Culver City, CA), Castelli Art Space (Culver City, CA), Artshare LA (Los Angeles, CA), Red Pipe Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Gallery 825/LAAA (Los Angeles, CA), Archtiecture+Design Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of Art and History (Lancaster, CA), The Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, CA), the Riverside Art Museum (Riverside, CA), Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), and internationally at Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone (Frosinone, Italy). Hatheway has created several large-scale, site/audience-specific installations for Pomona College (commissioned, Claremont, CA), The Rendon Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Gallery 825/LAAA (Los Angeles, CA) and The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commissioned, Indio, CA). In addition to her growing list of private art collectors, she has working relationships with art consultants, including SoHo Myriad (Atlanta, GA), Kalisher (Carrboro, NC), and DAC Art Consulting (Atlanta, GA). Her work is held in the public, corporate and private collections of the Bellagio Hotel (Las Vegas, NV), Norwegian Cruise Lines (Bahamas), Pomona College (Claremont, CA), AEG Worldwide (Los Angeles, CA), The Los Angeles Athletic Club (Los Angeles, CA), Hilton (Tysons Corner, Virginia), Kimpton Solamar (San Diego, CA), Omni Parker House (Boston, MA), and The Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting (Los Angeles, CA). Hatheway has been awarded residencies at The American College of Building Arts (Charleston, SC) and Modern Multiples (Los Angeles, CA) and has been honored with a Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles. Media outlets that have profiled Hatheway’s artworks include Artillery, LA Weekly, Spotlight Magazine (Germany), CODA Magazine, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, ArtDaily, The Los Angeles Times, Art Ltd., The Guardian, Huffington Post, La Provincia Prima Piano (Italy), Cloth Paper Scissors, KCET, LA Downtown News, LA Centric Magazine, U-T San Diego, and Fabrik Magazine, among others.
At its core, Hatheway’s work is about people. She contemplates ideas of memory, experience and the soulful residues left behind as people inhabit, focus on, use and pass through physical spaces. Hatheway uses the visual languages of architecture, infrastructure, color and pattern to suggest the depth and complexity of the life of the city. Through these visual clues, her abstract paintings tease recognition but require intentional inquiry to decipher. They beg viewers to unplug and tune into the tangible history surrounding them: becoming present and connecting with a community.
Hatheway’s paintings and installations possess a formal beauty which she turns on its head with joyful color and abstraction. Negative space is an active participant in Hatheway’s works. Much like the spaces between buildings, negative space allows the work to breathe. It creates a counterpoint to the colorful or filigreed elements. In addition to paint, pencil, ink, spray-paint, bleach and pastels, Hatheway experiments with a range of painting grounds. Selected for their material qualities such as texture (coarse linen), opacity (frosted plexiglass) and reflectiveness (gold leaf) these grounds convey distinct elements of earthiness, etherealness and luminousness.
As a fifth generation Angeleno, Hatheway consumes local heritage and examines how, for most people in Los Angeles, that heritage becomes deeply multi-cultural… and elusive. Hatheway’s artworks speak to viewers through their personal, soulful experiences of place and, when recognized, spark a sense of familiarity, joy and even pride. Hatheway’s work embraces tradition, while creating room for concept to ignite imagination.
Teale Hatheway is an American artist (b. 1978, Pasadena, CA) living and working in Los Angeles, California. After extended study at University College London’s Slade School of Fine Art, Hatheway received her BA from Scripps College (Claremont, CA) in 2000. Galleries, museums and alternative spaces throughout Southern California have exhibited her abstract architectural paintings, including George Billis (Culver City, CA), Castelli Art Space (Culver City, CA), Artshare LA (Los Angeles, CA), Red Pipe Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Gallery 825/LAAA (Los Angeles, CA), Archtiecture+Design Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of Art and History (Lancaster, CA), The Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, CA), the Riverside Art Museum (Riverside, CA), Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), and internationally at Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone (Frosinone, Italy). Hatheway has created several large-scale, site/audience-specific installations for Pomona College (commissioned, Claremont, CA), The Rendon Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Gallery 825/LAAA (Los Angeles, CA) and The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commissioned, Indio, CA). In addition to her growing list of private art collectors, she has working relationships with art consultants, including SoHo Myriad (Atlanta, GA), Kalisher (Carrboro, NC), and DAC Art Consulting (Atlanta, GA). Her work is held in the public, corporate and private collections of the Bellagio Hotel (Las Vegas, NV), Norwegian Cruise Lines (Bahamas), Pomona College (Claremont, CA), AEG Worldwide (Los Angeles, CA), The Los Angeles Athletic Club (Los Angeles, CA), Hilton (Tysons Corner, Virginia), Kimpton Solamar (San Diego, CA), Omni Parker House (Boston, MA), and The Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting (Los Angeles, CA). Hatheway has been awarded residencies at The American College of Building Arts (Charleston, SC) and Modern Multiples (Los Angeles, CA) and has been honored with a Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles. Media outlets that have profiled Hatheway’s artworks include Artillery, LA Weekly, Spotlight Magazine (Germany), CODA Magazine, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, ArtDaily, The Los Angeles Times, Art Ltd., The Guardian, Huffington Post, La Provincia Prima Piano (Italy), Cloth Paper Scissors, KCET, LA Downtown News, LA Centric Magazine, U-T San Diego, and Fabrik Magazine, among others.