Part of the annual Treasure Island Music Festival, The "Treasure Trove" is an interactive art and culture tent that will highlight Bay Area artists and galleries while giving festival goers a chance to take a break from the music. Triple Base Gallery will be bringing elements of our recent show, “Open for Business” where contemporary artists and inventors each provide an offering of goods, services or information to the public. Fest-goers will also feast their eyes on photos, collages, silkscreen prints, posters, and paintings in the Treasure Trove Gallery.

Triple Base is pleased to present When Holy Were the Haunted Forest Boughs, a site-specific installation by New York-based artist Christine Shields from August 2–September 28, 2008.

For Shields’s first solo show at Triple Base, she will create an eerie yet ethereal environment, exploring the idea of psychic homelessness. Through a mythological narrative, Shields ponders the impermanence of life and the human need to wander. The installation will highlight Shields’s signature illustrative drawings and paintings of ghosts, orphans, animals and spirits. The artist will also be the first to extend her installation down into the gallery’s cavernous “Triple Basement”, employing descent mythology to depict the soul's journey into darkness and then back into light.

A Dinner Lecture Series event in conjunction with this exhibition will take place in a comfortable off-site location on Friday, September 5th featuring guest chef Wendy Van Wagner. Seating is limited. RSVP to triplebase@gmail.com.

Christine Shields has a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She was a featured artist in Bay Area Now 4 (2005) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco and has had solo shows at S.F. Center for the Book, San Francisco (2005); City Hall, San Francisco (2003) and Adobe Books, San Francisco (2002). Selected group shows include White Columns, NY (2006); Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco (2006); UNLV's Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (2006); Aidan Savoy Galley, NYC (2006) and The Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2006). Shields was the creator of comic series “Blue Hole” and recently published the book “The Lonely Bear” with Booklyn, New York. She will be releasing her first album "Treasure Gone Feral" on Evangeline Records in November.

View work by Christine Shields in the Flat Files

GALLERY CLOSED FOR INSTALLATION UNTIL AUGUST 28TH

The Urxed (Rob Barber from High Places),Brooklyn, NY

Luke Fischbeck of Lucky Dragons, Los Angeles, CA

&

Bow Ribbons (Brooklyn, NY)

Thursday, August 14; 9pm
$5-10 sliding scale donation

Beth Cook’s “Paris Hiltonize Me” booth offered participants their 90 seconds of fame.

Justin Limoges offered temporary tattoos of his drawings.

Kyle Mock presented a project designed around the notion of "defining self", creating inspirational drawings based on his conversations with participants.

Michelle Blade proposed a mail art trade.

Alissa Anderson turned gallery visitors' old tee-shirts into reusable grocery bags.

Jesse Schlesinger brought Dirty Girl Farm to the city, offering freshly picked strawberries and information about food systems and organic farming practices.

Suzanne Husky made home improvements out of recycled materials for a site-impaired friend and recruited help and donations from gallery visitors (project blog).

Shashanna Chittle created a restorative booth offering yoga lessons, meditation sessions and tarot card readings.

Sara Thacher gambled with visitors on the outcome of the game Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Tara Foley and young Mission-based artists collaborated with visitors to create poetry collages.

Taha Belal offered a special exchange of information by asking gallery visitors to "Walk With".

Throughout the month of July, Triple Base will activate the gallery with alternative art commerce. A weekly rotation of artist booths designed by fourteen contemporary artists and creative inventors will each provide an offering of goods, services or information. The set-up facilitates an active space for exchange and social interaction, allowing the artists to highlight their influences or endeavors outside of their regular visual art practice. Each week (Thursday through Sunday) various artists or artist groups will man their custom-designed booth and conduct a project that engages the public.

July 10-13: Tara Foley and young Mission-based artists collaborate with visitors to create poetry collages, Bad at Sports presents a listening station of conversations with world-famous artists and curators, Taha Belal offers a special exchange of information and Sara Thacher gambles with visitors on the outcome of the game Rock, Paper, Scissors.
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July 17-20: Alissa Anderson turns your old tee-shirt into a reusable grocery bag, Shashanna Chittle creates a restorative yoga booth, Jesse Schlesinger brings Dirty Girl Farm to the city, Suzanne Husky will make home improvements out of recycled materials for a site-impaired friend (project blog), Scott Oliver offers an array of personal effects in exchange for a detailed drawing or written description of the special object.
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July 24-27: Justin Limoges offers temporary tattoos and custom drawings, Michelle Blade proposes a mail art trade, Kyle Mock presents a project designed around the notion of "defining self" and will create drawings based on his conversations with participants, Travis Meinolf works with gallery visitors to make wool ponchos and distribute them and Beth Cook’s “Paris Hiltonize Me” booth offers participants their 90 seconds of fame.
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Michael Swaine is an inventor and designer working in many media. He is the analog anchor of the studio. Michael has collaborated with Futurefarmers since 1997. Michael is dedicated to working in the community, Swaine's "Reap What You Sew" Generosity Project involved him pushing an old fashioned ice cream style cart on wheels with a treadle-operated sewing machine on it through the streets of San Francisco. Currently, Michael is teaching at California College of the Arts.

The Dinner Lecture Series strives to illuminate the practice of the current artist(s) exhibiting in the gallery space and extend the participants’ thinking around topics related to the show. Discussions and debates are encouraged and facilitated by the convivial family style meal that coincides with the lecture that takes place in a comfortable loft apartment in the Mission District.

Education:
BS in Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University.

Studies in fine arts, drawing and painting, printmaking at Sacramento City College, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Center for the Book

Representation:
Booklyn Artists Alliance, Brooklyn, NY

Solo Shows:

2008
"The Pain Of Rock" Grady's Record Refuge, Ventura,CA
"Infernal Soundtrack", WellSpace, Oakland, CA

2005
Book Arts Salon, San Francisco Center for the Book.

2004
"Adoration of the Magi" Grady's Record Refuge, Ventura, CA.

2001
Acrylic paintings at Goat Hill Pizza, San Francisco.

1991
"Mashed Media" acrylic paintings at Cafe Beano, San Francisco.

Selected group shows:

2008
"Bookit" book arts fair, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
"Contemporary Outsiders" Internal Guidance Systems Art Group at Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, British Columbia.
"Internal Guidance Systems"group show at Track 16 Gallery,Santa Monica,CA.
"NPR In Brooklyn" Sound collaboration "BATFART" production of "Brown
Light, Brown Heat" featured in the pirate radio station Neighborhood
Public Radio as part of the Whitney Biennial, New York.

2007
Frankfurt International Book Fair, Germany.
New York Art Book Fair, New York.
"111 at 111 Minna Street Gallery" San Francisco.
"Non Sequitar"' Ritual Coffee Roasters, San Francisco.

2006
Korea International Book Fair, Seoul, Korea.
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL.
"Complicit!" University of Virginia Art Museum, Virginia.

2005
"Resonance and Response" Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.

2004
"California Screaming" San Francisco Center for the Book.

2002
"New Wave Hobos" artist book, Booklyn Book Arts Salon, New York.

2001
"DISMAL, NEVADA" sculpture, painting, installation, Black Rock Desert,
Nevada.

2000
Locus Gallery Benefit Auction, Japantown, San Francisco.

1999
"The Potato Show" Z Gallerie, San Francisco.

1998
"HELLCO" sculpture, painting collaboration with SEEMEN fire arts group,
Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

1997
"Temp" Text and image in public place-Market Street Art in Transit, San Francisco.

1996
Endeavor House Group Show, London, England.

1992
"The Conservative Spirit" Show and Tell Gallery, San Francisco.

1990
"Unwanted Animal" Southern Exposure, San Francisco.

1989
"The Funny Show" San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

Private Collections:

Tom Patchett, Santa Monica, CA
Earl Collier, Boston, MA
Jack Ginsberg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Ken Raboy, Dallas, TX
Irving Zucker, NY
Jeff Brown, Evanston, IL
Beth DeWoody, New York, NY

Public Collections:

Pompidou Center, Paris, France
Biblioteque Nationale du Luxemburg
Winchester College, UK
University of Vienna, Austria
Kunstbibliotek, Berlin, Gernmany
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Sacramento Public Library, CA
Library of Congress
Modern Art Museum, NY
Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
Chapman University, CA
Stanford University, CA
Smith College, OR
Yale University, CT
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Occidental College, CA
Welleseley College, MA
Dartmouth College, NH
Amherst College, MA
Lafayette College, CA
Scripps University, CA
U C Irvine, CA
U C L A, CA
U C Berkeley, CA
University of Southern California, CA
U C Santa Barbara, CA
U C Santa Cruz, CA
University of South Hampton, MA
University of Connecticut, CT
Long Island University, NY
University of Iowa, IA

Bibliography

2008
White Hot Magazine, "BookIt at New Langton Arts".

2007
Book Arts Yearbook, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

2002
"All My Bands", Cool Beans Magazine.

1993
"Bring on the Noise" Mike Rowell, SF Weekly.

The Time the Earth Moved, 2008
watercolor on paper, framed
15'' x 15''
$800

Bonfire, 2007
ink and acrylic on Dura-Lar
28’’ x 28’’
$1200

Attempting Romantic Gestures, 2007
ink and acrylic on Dura-Lar
31 1/2 x 27’’
$1200

Guided Light, 2008
ink and acrylic on Dura-Lar
13.5'' x 14.5''
$600

Explosion, 2007
ink and acrylic on Dura-Lar
13.5'' x 15''
$700

From Now On We Can Share the Love We Have, 2007
ink and acrylic on Dura-Lar
19'' x 27''
$1100

This Is Where We Searched For Freedom, 2007
ink and acrylic on Dura-Lar
19'' x 27''
$1100

Sophie in Moss Costume, 2008

Picnic, 2008

Outhouse, 2008

Paul and Ohji Living in the Woods, 2008

Deforestation, 2008

Kobe and Yellow Fever, 2008

Construction Site with Mae West, 2008

Walter Doing Math, 2008

Anne (aka Satan), 2008

Grey Water System, 2008

Village, 2008

Home, 2008

David Chainsawing a Couch That Doesn’t Fit on Car, 2008

Clouds, 2008

Humanure, 2008

Biodiesel Oasis, 2008

Five Years Old, 2008

Wireless Connection Confused Migratory Birds, 2008

Modou, 2008

Save Oaks Activist, 2008

Birch Trees, 2008

Downer Cows in Feedlot, 2008

Factory Workers, 2008

Zatoichi vs George, 2008

Mathilde Reading, 2008

Simon in Goat Costume Interacting with Goats, 2008

Massage, 2008

Berkeley Secret Hot Tub, 2008

Eugene International Jumproping, 2008

Hydroponic Farm, 2008

Steve, Lucia, Girl X and Guy X, 2008

Charlene Driving, 2008

Misa Riding Stingray, 2008

Gallery Opening, 2008

You may commission a textile portrait of yourself or a friend.
Email triplebase@gmail.com for details.

Untitled (DIDI), 2008
4 5/8’’ x 6 3/8’’
oil paint, paper, nails

Untitled (LOS), 2008
11 3/8’’ x 11/38’’, framed
oil paint, pencil, paper, wood, glass

Untitled (EMY), 2008
30 1/4’’ x 25 1/4’’
oil paint and canvas

Untitled (MIN), 2008
35 5/8’’ x 47 1/2’’
pen, pencil, canvas

Untitled (MIN) detail, 2008

Untitled (DWHE), 2008
21’’ x 29 1/8’’
wood (walnut)

Untitled (NIT), 2008
9 7/8’’ x 10 1/4’’
paper, watercolor, wood, glass, gesso

Untitled (RIED), 2008
12 7/8’’ x 13 1/4’’
oil, watercolor, paper, wood gesso

Untitled (TOG), 2008
13 1/4’’ x 12 3/4’’
wood, paint, pencil, watercolor, gesso

Untitled (ETRI), 2008
27’’ x 22’’
oil paint, gesso, canvas

Untitled (DOFE), 2008
9’’ x 10 1/2’’
oil paint and canvas

Untitled (VER), 2008
8 7/8’’ x 11 5/8’’
oil paint and paper, mounted

Untitled (YTHI), 2008
7 3/8’’ x 9 7/8’’
oil paint and paper, mounted

Untitled (NGYO), 2008
4 5/8’’ x 7 3/8’’
oil paint, paper, nails

Untitled (USEE), 2008
7 3/4’’ x 7 1/2’’
oil paint and paper, mounted