08/24/2026
We are pleased to announce Hope For Everything, a selection of paintings by Featured Artist Angie Quintanilla Coates, now on view in the showroom ✨
In Hope for Everything, Angie makes use of wood off-cuts whose shapes that she had found challenging to integrate into her earlier work.
For Angie, the past year involved personal and professional transitions that forced her to accept limitations on what she could control, and to learn to adapt to what she could not. The pieces in Hope for Everything mirror her process of finding equilibrium during a period of change and uncertainty. Like the experiences she faced outside her studio, the uniquely shaped wood off-cuts refused easy integration; she had to work with their incongruous forms, softening the edges, painting with bold, saturated colours, and using layers to bring an illusion of depth.
She balanced working on these pieces with periodic returns to her wood relief panels, finding in them a reprieve from the struggle of managing obstinate objects. Although her reliefs are complex structures, working with them felt familiar this time, a process that came with the kind of intuitive control learned from years of practice. Working with the reclaimed wood, however, presented an entirely different set of problems. Just as her own life required her to face new circumstances, so the process of working with the reclaimed wood insisted she reframe those limitations as opportunities for new design. In this way, Hope for Everything reflects a process of acceptance and adaptation—an act of facing an unchangeable situation and, rather than turning away in fear or uncertainty, meeting the moment with curiosity and a willingness to grow.
Hope For Everything is on view in the showroom until November 6th. See it at our showroom on the ground floor Annex of Vancouver Art Gallery weekdays from 10 to 5, or learn more via the 🔗 in our bio.
Slides 2 – 4: I Believe In Second Chances II, 2026, acrylic on reclaimed wood, 9" x 16”; She Never Wondered What If, 2026, acrylic on wood relief, 24” x 24”, Trudge the Road of Happy Destiny, 2026, acrylic on reclaimed wood, 52” x 11.5"
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