Gabrielle Teschner
Textile Sculptures & Prints
b. Newport News, VA
Lives and works in Richmond, VA
Teschner’s “Sculptures-That-Are-Flat” are composed of stitched, individually painted planes, using the symbolic language of architectural forms and of natural forces to demonstrate the expressive power of spatial relationships. Her work can be seen in various Soho Houses, The Goodtime Hotel (Miami), Facebook HQ (Meta), the De Young Museum, Booooooom, Sight Unseen, Elle, Coveteur, AnOther Magazine and The Good Trade.
STATEMENT
“My formal aim is to disassemble the planes of common three-dimensional forms so that, when reassembled, their edges and lines form uncommon and irrational intersections. The process of cutting, painting and reconstructing material in my work echoes my conceptual interest in dismantling logic-structures in order to introduce new interpretations. My attraction to using fabric has to do with its portability and flexibility. Constructing forms from this material has natural limitations that I use to explore and reveal the concept of accumulating knowledge.”
EDUCATION
MFA California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
BFA Scupture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
AWARDS AND HONORS, RESIDENCIES
2022 (Upcoming) Numeroventi Artist Residency, Florence, Italy
2020 Facebook Headquarters Artist in Residence, Menlo Park, CA
2019 Tappan Collective Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Anderson Gallery Space Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2018 Tappan Collective Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Studios of Key West Artist in Residence, Key West, FL
2016 Irving Street Projects Artist in Residence, San Francisco, CA
2013 Emdash Award Shortlist, Frieze Foundation, London, UK
2013 Campos de Gutierrez Artist in Residence, Medellín, Colombia
2010 SECA Award Finalist, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2010 Jean Claude Reynal Travel Scholarship Finalist
2007 Barclay Simpson Award
2005 California College of Arts Merit Scholarship
2002 Virginia Commonwealth University World Study Abroad Scholarship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Forest for the Trees, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2022 Hot House, Gloucester Arts on Main, Gloucester, VA
2019 Mirame Mérida, Galería Lagalá 56, Merida, Yucatán, Mexico
2018 The Announcement, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 In The Offing, Irving Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2015 The Inability of Reason, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2015 Pianoforte, Goodnight Projects, San Francisco, CA
2014 Broken Law and The Builded, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 Neutral Territory, Espiga Gallery at Plazarté, Medellín, Colombia
2011 Nothing et al., VML, Healdsburg, CA
2010 Table and Chair, Keys That Fit Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009 Figuring a Brilliant Point, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006 Everything You Think Is True, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Summer Show, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019 Softcore LA Group Show, DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Edge Out, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Summer Group Show, Euqinom Projects, San Francisco, CA
2012 Treads and Risers, FM Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012 DocumentO, Krowswerk, Oakland, CA
2012 De-Mobbing, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2010 Shadowshop contributor, A project by Stephanie Syjuco, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2010 Mirror Images, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Charles Moffett
2007 Displaced, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 MFA Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
COLLECTIONS
de Young Museum, Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Facebook HQ, Menlo Park, CA
Capital G (Google), San Francisco, CA
Seabourne International
Goodtime Hotel, Miami, FL
Four Seasons, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Ritz-Carlton, Washington DC
Soho House Istanbul, Turkey
Soho House Malibu, California
Private Collection of Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles
FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, CA
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