ABOUT TRIPLE BASE

Triple Base intends to invigorate the local art community with experimental art exhibitions and provide emerging artists with artistic mentorship and financial support through art sales and funding through grants. Our mission statement is aligned with our curatorial interests in site-specificity and desire to provide new opportunities for local emerging artists. We aim to foster exchanges between a growing network of national and international artistic communities, which we believe is one of the best ways to support the careers of emerging artists. Triple Base strives to give an artist the time, space, and resources to create thought-provoking artwork that is accessible to the diverse audience that Triple Base attracts, located along the 24th Street Corridor. The intimate nature of Triple Base's approach is increasingly more rare as the art world expands and globalizes like never before. We provide an experimental exhibition space for ambitious and dedicated artists to take their work a step further and challenge themselves in their practice.

ABOUT THE DIRECTORS

Photo credit: James Chiang

Joyce Grimm is an independent curator, educator and writer living in San Francisco. She has built educational programs for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Habitot Children’s Museum in Berkeley, and now works with the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. She has curated programs for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, designed the film and lecture programming for The Practice Space, and collaborated on events and exhibitions with the Independent School of Art where she developed the first Dinner Lecture Series with artist Jon Rubin. The Dinner Lecture program is a key component to Triple Base's educational program. Grimm has conducted lectures and public programming for UCLA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LACMA, Arts Initiative Tokyo, and California College of the Arts. Joyce received her Masters in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts in 2006. Grimm’s thesis research involved assignment-based exhibition practice. This type of exhibition enables viewers to gain insight into the artistic process, which can be useful to understanding art practice and how it may apply to other fields of study.

Dina Pugh is an independent curator and writer who has organized exhibitions of contemporary artists in San Francisco, Tokyo, Los Angeles and New York. She was most recently the Director of the Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. Previously, she organized special events at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, worked at Deitch Projects in New York City, and co-created the fashion line Vamp Design. Her writings and research have appeared in publications including Preserving America's Cultural Heritage, a catalog for the 2006 commissioned project by LA-based artist Jeffrey Vallance, Curating Now (2005), and an upcoming book on Public Art by Phaidon Press. In 2000 she received her BA from Stanford University and in 2006 she received her Masters in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. Pugh has done extensive research and writing on the history of Bay Area art and alternative art spaces.



The San Francisco Chronicle
"Art galleries takin' it to Valencia Street"

San Francisco Magazine
"The art issue(s): The young and hungry have arrived"

Stark Guide
"Triple Base Gallery: White Glove Inspection" by Marianna Stark