Gabrielle Teschner (b.1981 Newport News, VA) is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2003 and her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2007, where she developed a body of work concerning the language of maps. She continues to study documents as powerful and dangerous cultural mechanisms and is most recently creating collapsible works informed by architecture, tempering their often rigid philosophies and foundations. Her work takes inspiration from travel and the encounter of cultural identities- what translates, and what cannot. Gabrielle Teschner has work in the permanent collection of the De Young Museum and has shown throughout the Bay Area at Haines Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery, Queens Nails Annex and New Langton Arts.