Gabriela Albergaria, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto, & Gregory Volk

Teaches at Sapar Contemporary

Gabriela Albergaria is a Portuguese artist based in Lisbon and London. Albergaria's work involves one territory: Nature. The artist views gardens/cultural landscapes as elaborated constructs, representational systems and descriptive mechanisms that epitomize a set of fictional beliefs that are employed to represent the natural world. More generally, the images of gardens and plant species are used as devices to reveal processes of cultural change through which visions of nature are produced. Completed a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto.

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto is a Japanese born U.S.-based artist known for paintings, sculptures, and installations employing elemental materials such as trees, fossils, and minerals, creating profound viewer connections with the essential in nature and time. Turner-Yamamoto studied at Kyoto City University of Arts, and, at Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna.

Gregory Volk is a New York-based art writer, freelance curator, and Associate Professor in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. He writes regularly for Art in America, where he is a contributing editor, and his articles and reviews have also appeared in many other publications.