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Tea with Betty

Have tea with guest curator, Betty Nguyen July 20-23 3pm-6pm

Flat File Artists

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Mission Statement

Triple Base strives to facilitate new and innovative ways to promote
the work of Bay Area artists, to instigate dialogue with artists
from various regions and to encourage cross-disciplinary
collaborations. Brought together by a shared interest in site-specific
and multi-disciplinary contemporary art practice, co-curators Joyce
Grimm and Dina Pugh invite artists working in areas of film/video,
social practice, music, painting, drawing and sculpture to create new
work while considering the parameters of site, scale and location.

Mingling with Artists from Cosmic Wonder and Cosmic Satelites

Mingle with the Artists

Dancing and Drinks
July 15th 2006
10-2am

THE PRACTICE SPACE
2211 Mission suite C (18th and Mission)
5.00 at the door
Proceeds benefit the Cosmic Wonder artist publication created by Betty Nguyen

Triple Base will host an after party for the Yerba Buena exhibition Cosmic Wonder

COSMIC SATELLITES

COSMIC SATELLITES
July 12 – July 30, 2006
Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 12, 7 – 10 pm
Special live performance at 8pm: Usun w/ Mark Borthwick, Hisham
Bharoocha (ex-Black Dice) and David Aron.

Cosmic Satellites celebrates the intimate, handmade, the beloved
souvenir and the special gift. Guest curator and art director Betty
Nguyen will set up a temporary shop at the Triple Base gallery
carrying limited edition art works, merchandise, clothes and media by
an international roster of artists — many of whom are featured in
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' simultaneous exhibition Cosmic
Wonder.

Satellite artists include Ara Peterson, Paperrad, Nieves Books and Zines,
Tagbanger and Textfield, Cosmic Wonder, Andy Hershey, Mike Pare, Soft Circle,
Eric Bauer, Michael Williams, Sean McKinnon, Jos Pollard, Willshine, Hanna Fushihara Aron,
David Aron, Hisham Bharoocha, Mark Borthwick, Feathers, Sam Gordon,
Sabrina Gschwandtner (KnitKnit), Yukinori Maeda, Ports
Bishop and many more.

In both the Cosmic Wonder exhibition and satellite show, Nguyen
strings together a community of artists from New York, Los Angeles,
Japan, and San Francisco that work between aesthetics of
transcendental, digitally tight and homespun. Cosmic Satellites is a
contemporary cube of intricate jewelry, silk-screened and digital
posters, couture clothes, humorously clever tee-shirts, documented
zines, ephemeral paintings, and recursive videos that highlight the
varied creative endeavors of these multi-talented artists.

Image credit: Mark Borthwick, Untitled C-print, 2005; Sam Gordon, The
Muster, 2005; Arik Roper, Cat Tree, 2005; Josh Petherick, page from
Nieves Books & Zines

White Box

WHITE BOX is a survey exhibition of small works by 40 artists from all over the country, highlighting No. 4's varied interests a nd bears similarities to a White Elephant gift exchange. The artists will customize an artwork that fits into a 12'' X 9'' gift box. At the opening of the show, the gallery will be filled with the unmarked white boxes wherein attendees of the opening are offered a ticket that assigns them to one at random. The buyer then unwraps the box by lifting the lid and is presented with an object made and donated by the artist. The exhibition will slowly be unveiled and by the end of the evening, all of the boxes will be opened and the works will be displayed through December 19 th . Buyers return to take their piece home on December 20 th from 12-7pm.

Participating artists include Becca Albee, Elyse Allen, Hanna Fushihara Aron , Andy Asp, Joseph Becker , Bert Bergen, Charles Beronio, Libby Black, Seth Childs, Chris Cobb, Brian Conley , Catherine Czacki, Robert De Saint Phalle , Chris Duncan, Tara Foley , Jim Gaylord, Allegra Gibson , Sean Horchy , Suzanne Husky , Robert Jordan, Melissa Kaseman, Helena Keeffe, Erin Kunkel, Isaac Lin, Mariko Marrs, Jessica Martin, Jesse Michaels, Sue Pak, Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell, Leif Ritchey, Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, Tonya Solley Thornton , Barbara Schauwecker, Emily Sevier, Wei Weng, Virginia White and Will Yackulic.

All proceeds from WHITE BOX will help fund the not-for-profit art exhibitions organized by No. 4 at Triple Base Gallery.

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Artist statement
Artist images
Artist Bio

"Rae," 2004, mixed media

"Untitled," 2002, Latex on Canvas

About Us

Joyce Grimm is a freelance curator and writer in San Francisco and is
currently the co-director and co-curator of Triple Base Gallery in the
Mission District. Previously she worked for the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Denver Colorado and taught art classes for the Denver Art
Students League. She has curated for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
designed the film and lecture programming for The Practice Space, and
collaborated on events and exhibitions with the Independent School of
Art. She has conducted lectures and public programming for UCLA, Los
Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Arts Initiative Tokyo, The Practice
Space, and California College of the Arts. Joyce received her Masters
in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts in 2006.

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 is currently the co-director/curator of
Triple Base, an experimental art space in the Mission District of 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.

Chris Cobb

With the assistance of 30 people San Francisco artist Chris Cobb has made a
series of drawings that are as messy as they are colorful. Questioning
authorship and originality, Cobb's upcoming exhibition at Triple Base
gallery shows what happens when 30 friends and fellow collaborators draw
layer after layer to make dense, luminous drawings.

While Cobb sets forth a basic idea or structure, each picture made by the
group is unique. The idea is to create a new experience with each drawing,
and each person represents a certain color. This choreographed art was
inspired by a rather existentialist text sent to Cobb by the Japanese artist
Kazumasa Noguchi. Noguchi described time as being revealed in layers of meaning.

Curator Joyce Grimm has established this assignment-based project as the
first No.4 exchange with Triple Base¹s sister gallery, Nakaochiai Gallery,
located in Tokyo. Both spaces support interrelation, expansion, and
exchange for a growing network of international artistic communities.
Everything in a Drawing and Nothing in a Drawing originated with an
invitation to Nakaochiai Gallery to recommend a Tokyo artist who had a great
understanding of space and would be interested in lending their artistic and
poetic sensibilities through a descriptive text that would then be translated by artist Chris Cobb.
Nakaochiai Gallery recommended artist Kazumasa Noguchi and it was with his poetic text
this project began. A future project will involve a reciprocal exchange in Japan.

Contact

Gallery Hours
Thursday-Sunday 12-5pm
(please check for special evening hours)

3041 24th Street,
San Francisco, CA 94110

email: Triple Base
phone: 415.643.3943

History

Artists Clint Taniguchi and Oliver Halsman Rosenberg established triple Base in 2003. The storefront location on 24th Street in the Mission District of San Francisco allowed for direct access to a variety of communities. The space operated organically, suiting the needs of whatever artistic expression was appropriate for the time. Under the direction and creative guidance of Rosenberg and Taniguchi Triple Base became a creative foundation that promoted and supported the artistic endeavors of the community it served.

Clint Taniguchi has since moved to Tokyo and co-runs a sister gallery space called Nakaochiai Gallery. The gallery provides free, non-commercial events and exchanges to a growing network of international artistic communities. Oliver Halsman Rosenberg moved to New York in May of 2006. He has been in numerous art exhibitions around the world and will venture to India in the coming months conducting a portrait series project. The two artists continue to work together and have recently been featured in an exhibition called the INSTANT DRAWING MACHINE at The Drawing Center, in New York.
(more information to come)

In November of 2006 four emerging curators were invited by Oliver Halsman Rosenberg to take over the space. The curatorial collective, No.4 was formed and consisted of Nancy Meyer, Audrey Marrs, Dina Pugh, and Joyce Grimm. No.4 developed and executed six months of exhibition programming at Triple Base gallery. Since July of 2006, the space has been co-curated and co-directed by Dina Pugh and Joyce Grimm.

Switchback

Switchback: Matt Gerring and Jay Nelson presents two emerging San Francisco-based artists who explore spirituality as seen through the popular California pastime—camping. Both Gerring and Nelson use their practice to explore their personal connection to the natural world within an increasingly technological modern age. While the two artists share a common point of interest, their artistic processes are inversely related. Nelson creates subtle patterns of negative space in his large-scale drawings by rubbing an eraser over layers of graphite, while Gerring embellishes his fabric canvases with detailed hand embroidery.

Matt Gerring investigates the phenomena of “home-grown” spiritual questing and aesthetics arising from 1960s psychedelic culture through the medium of embroidery on camping equipment such as sleeping bags and tents. Gerring's newest work will be on display in the Triple Base gallery's storefront windows. These new pieces made of the frayed rope and deconstructed rigging mechanisms used in mountain climbing suggest a lust for adventure and risk that many outdoor enthusiasts experience. Gerring's embroidered camping gear remind one that such products act as an intermediary between the body and the elements, only allowing a person to “get back to nature” while wrapped in state of the art petroleum by-products. Gerring's detailed work simultaneously comments on the imported spiritual philosophy of Asia and the appropriated teachings of Native Americans. Gerring is a recent MFA graduate of California College of the Arts, a recipient of the prestigious Skowhegan Residency and a current artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Jay Nelson likewise finds the inspiration for his large-scale, psychedelic landscapes in nature. Building from early California photography and etchings, Nelson's epic drawings incorporate his own feelings of transcendence experienced while backpacking through the terrain of Northern California. Nelson's newest wall-sized drawings will cover the walls of the gallery, creating an installation that envelops the viewer.