Past Projects
Dinner Lecture Series
Guest Speakers: Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine from Futurefarmers
Chef: Leif Hedendal
In conjunction with Suzanne Husky's solo show You Make Me Make You
Friday, June 27th; 6:30-10pm
Image credit: Howard Junker from ZYZZYVA
For this Dinner Lecture Leif Hedendal prepared an amazing four course vegetarian meal using only the finest seasonal ingredients from local organic farms. Guests will dined together and had the pleasure of being a part of a lecture presented by Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine. The Futurefarmer collaborators were asked to design a lecture based on their experience viewing Suzanne Husky's exhibition, You Make Me Make You. -Artists contextualizing artists.
Amy Franceschini is a new media artist and educator. Her work is pervaded with images of growth-reminding us that both nature and our own creative natures are precious commodities that must be nurtured and sustained whether it is on the web or in our own backyards. Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995, as a means to bring together multidisciplinary artists to create new work. She is currently teaching Media Theory and Practice courses at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute.
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.
Car Clutch, Soft Circle, The Urxed, Hawnay Troof & Beatheart vs Warmen Fussi
Saturday, May 10th; 9pm-12am
$5-10 donation
Car Clutch (LA/NYC, featuring Brendan Fowler, aka BARR, co-editor of ANP Quarterly, and Ethan Swan formerly of Emergency)
The Urxed (NYC, Rob Barber of High Places, solo)
Soft Circle (NYC, Hisham Bharoocha solo project, former member of Black Dice)
Hawnay Troof (Berkeley, Vice Cooler solo project of XBXRX, KIT, and many more!)
Beatheart vs Warmen Fussi (Alameda)
Dinner Lecture Series
Guest Speaker Kenneth Baker
In conjunction with Misfits solo show by Todd Bura
Friday, April 11th, 7-10pm
Kenneth Baker has been art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1985. A native of the Boston area, he served as art critic for the Boston Phoenix from 1972 to 1985 and contributed on a freelance basis to publications ranging from Art in America to The New York Times Book Review. He was a contributing editor of Artforum from 1985 to 1992. Baker has also written for museum exhibition catalogs devoted to artists as various as Giorgio Morandi, David Rabinowitch, Manuel Ocampo and Edward Burtynsky. He is the author of 'Minimalism: Art of Circumstance' (Abbeville Press, 1989/1997), which the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Association nominated for a non-fiction award. In late spring 2008 Yale University Press will publish Baker's latest book, 'The Lightning Field.'
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.
Sumi Ink Club Multi-City Collaborative Drawing Event
Sunday, March 23rd, 2-5pm
Open free to the public, come draw with us!
Click here to view images from the world-wide event
In conjunction with the exhibition Starting with Blade..., LA-based Sumi Ink Club will organize a multi-city simultaneous drawing event open to the public at Triple Base (San Francisco); SITE LA (Los Angeles), Little Cakes (New York), Shoboshobo, Le Fun Club (India) and Lexifur's Lair and Pickle Alley @ Raphael Lyon's (mudboy) home (Providence).
Sumi Ink Club is a Los Angeles-based drawing collective founded in 2005 by Sarah Anderson and Luke Fischbeck. The group meets regularly to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on paper. In each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawing as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life. Sumi Ink Club is non-hierarchical: all ages, all humans, all styles.
Other collaborations featuring Sarah Anderson and Luke Fischbeck include the band, Lucky Dragons, and the small publishing house, Glaciers of Nice who will create a publication out of the drawings that result from the simultaneous drawing events.
Peter Stegall Artist Talk + Q&A
Sunday, February 10th, 4-7pm
Peter Stegall and curator Dina Dusko participate in an open forum Q&A discussion at Triple Base Gallery. Visitors had a chance to discuss Peter's work amongst local artists, critics, and Triple Base curators. This event was designed to encourage conversation in the exhibition space as well provide a closer, more personal examination of the work. Stegall has been a practitioner of fine art for over 30 years and has a wealth of knowledge to share. No question is off limits!
Michael Rakowitz's Enemy Kitchen Dinner Lecture
Sunday, December 16th 6-10pm
Location: Satellite loft space located on 18th and Mission
“In producing Enemy Kitchen, I imagined the effectiveness of a platform where people of various backgrounds and different political opinions could participate in a project that would serve as a cultural puncture, thereby enabling the current conflict to create a situation where information and customs flow in two directions, affecting people on both sides. The invisibility in this country of Iraqi culture, beyond the daily news, is alarming. In Paris, it is hard to walk too far before finding a North African restaurant or market, an appropriate apparition to guard against an amnesia concerning the destructive colonial occupation by France in places like Algeria. Until recently, there were no Iraqi restaurants in New York City (I have heard one just opened in March). The possibility of cultural visibility to produce an alternative discourse is, in my view, formidable. And what better vehicle than the consumption of food and the space of conversation that a meal can create?"
—Michael Rakowitz
Enemy Kitchen is an ongoing project begun by Michael Rakowitz in 2004. Collaborating with his Iraqi-Jewish mother, he compiles Baghdadi recipes and teaches them to different public audiences.
For the first incarnation of the project, organized by More Art, Rakowitz cooked with a group of middle school and high school students who live in Chelsea and participate in after-school and summer programs at the Hudson Guild Community Center. Some had relatives in the US Army stationed in Iraq. In preparing and then consuming the food, it opened up another topic through which the word 'Iraq’ could be discussed—in this case, attached to food, as a representative of culture and not as a stream of green-tinted images shown on CNN of a war-torn place. The project functioned as a social sculpture: while cooking and eating, the students engaged each other on the topic of the war and drew parallels with their own lives, at times making comparisons with bullies in relation to how they perceive the conflict.
Aqua Art Miami 2007 @ Aqua Hotel
December 5-10, 2007
Triple Base is excited to be a part of the Aqua Hotel Fair in Miami! We are pleased to present new work by Todd Bura, Serena Cole, Alika Cooper, Tara Lisa Foley, Bryson Gill, Suzanne Husky, Kyle Mock, Jay Nelson, Kelly Ording, Hilary Pecis, Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, Peter Stegall and Judy Wu.
"Double Blind" Dinner Lecture
Guest speaker Larry Rinder
Chef Leif Hedendal
Monday, September 24; 6:30-10pm
Lawrence Rinder is the Dean of the College at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Previously, he was the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art where he organized exhibitions including "The American Effect," "BitStreams," the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and "Tim Hawkinson," which was given the 2005 award for best monographic exhibition in a New York museum by the United States chapter of the International Association of Art Critics. Prior to the Whitney, Rinder was founding director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, in San Francisco, and served as Assistant Director and Curator for Twentieth-Century Art at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
MORE IMAGES OF THE EVENING:
Thanks to Larry Rinder, Leif Hedendal, Kyle Mock, Suzanne Husky, Hilary Pecis, Lainya Magana, Caitlin Foster, Bryson Gill, and Ellie Grimm - We couldn't have done it without you!
Portland Drawing Exchange @ The Affair
September 14-16, 2007
Bay Area artists attended a drawing party hosted by Triple Base curators at their satellite loft space. Artists relaxed, brunched and created drawings for the Portland Drawing Exchange to unravel at The Affair, an annual art fair at the Jupiter Hotel. The works created during the event were offered in trade for other artist’s works in Triple Base's hotel room at the fair. Our hope was to initiate a dialog between Bay Area artists and artists from Portland and abroad, encouraging future collaborations and widened networks.
Video of Drawing Party in San Francisco
Drawing Exchange @ The Affair in Portland
Click here to read review in The Oregonian
Dinner Lecture Series: SUMMER BBQ STYLE
In conjunction with Kyle Mock's solo exhibition Do Not Disturb
Sunday August 12th, 12-6pm
$5 donations or bring food to grill
$1 raffle for Kyle Mock hot dog drawings
While most of our Dinner Lectures happen in a comfortable Mission loft, we have decided to detour the standard format for this particular occasion. As requested by the featured artist, Kyle Mock, we will have an afternoon BBQ complete with hot dogs,soft-serve ice cream, and good old fashioned lemonade. Our host and BBQ performer will be the artist himself. The social aspect of this event will work in opposition to the solitary experience of being in the gallery installation. Come see the show in its final weeks and be a part of the Summer BBQ! There will be guided tours, meetings of minds, and chances to obtain original hot-dog related artworks. A request has already been made for a sunny day.
Images From the Event
Starting in April, Triple Base will host a Dinner Lecture Series. Each lecture will help illuminate the practice of the current artist(s) exhibiting at Triple Base and extend our thinking around topics related to the show. The Dinner Lecture will take place in a beautiful loft apartment in the Mission District that has the ability to accommodate large gatherings and various media presentations.
Discussions, Debates, and Insights Welcome
"From Mind to Hand: Artists and Graphology" Dinner Lecture
Sunday April 29th; 6:30-10pm
Guest Lecturer: Susanne Shapiro, teacher and practitioner of graphology
Menu: Brain food for the mind and finger food for the hand!
Cost: $30 per person includes interactive lecture, wine, dinner and conversation.
Images from Dinner Lecture on Graphology
Guests arrived and wrote out a handwriting sample to study while learning about graphology
The first course: "finger foods"
Graphologist Susanne Shapiro introduced the basics of graphology and showed examples of famous artists's handwriting from Paul Klee to Joseph Beuys.
Conversations continued throughout the night
Rock N' Roll Trunk Show
featuring fashion designers m i t t e n m a k e r, TINC, Venus Superstar and Miss Velvet Cream
Saturday, March 31st; 2-10pm
On the final weekend of Alissa Anderson's solo show A N T S Y, we featured Anderson's fashion line m i t t e n m a k e r and fellow fashion designers in a special trunk show. We plan to have more fashion-related events to come!
With the help of Triple Base interns Leslie Kulesh, Dina Dusko and Sarah Foster we are organizing a month-long weekly event series featuring comedy, music, films, poetry and bring-your-own art! We will also be open during regular gallery hours for perusal through our extensive Flat Files collection.
BRING YOUR OWN ART (SHOW)
Friday, January 12; 7-11pm
Artist Danny Minnick is inviting anyone and everyone to bring work (theirs or not) into the Triple Base Gallery. Bring art, music, poetry or whatever is important to you (also bring any tools you might need for display.) All works will be hung and presented this Friday from 7-11pm.
In hopes to provide access to never before seen art, invitations for presenting work have been sent through private emails, event sites, craigslist postings and newspaper ads. This free one-night event strives to create an inclusive exhibition environment for participants and viewers as well as a curatorial proposition which challenges artist Danny Minnick to create order out of all the work being brought into the space.
Click here to read a review on Art Business and see more images
MOVIE NIGHT
Friday, January, 19th, 7-11pm
"Allegro Non Troppo"
An Italian animation set to 6 classical pieces....sort of an adult's fantasia.
&
"The Conversation"
A Francis Ford Coppola film set in San Francisco...intense thriller about a paranoid surveillence expert.
(the masterminds: Foster and Kulesh) "Comfort is important" "This is only the first in a series of many"
One guest in particular commented that he thought the video was amazing and claimed that God was at work...."Is the ipod on shuffle?...It is amazing how perfect the music goes along with the imagery...did you guys plan this....does everyone know about this?" SH
AN ORANGE GLOW
Friday, January 26th; 8pm
Poems by Pat Dunagan and William Skinker
Thank you, this was a really a wonderful evening. There will definitely be more to come.
CONNIE FUCKING FRANCIS
Thursday, Feb 1st; 8pm
Connie Fucking Francis will be performing at Triple Base Thursday February 1st. The Oakland band is lead by vocalist Lain Kay who offers up his own interpretation of the 50's pop singer Connie Francis. The young group is known for their engaging theatrical performances, elaborate costumes and how they uniquely spin such songs like "Where the Boys Are". This night is not to be missed! Sean, Sam and Lain have promised a special performance created just for Triple Base.
Visit Connie Fucking Francis on Myspace
WINNIPEG FILM and VIDEO NITE with host PAUL BUTLER,(theothergallery)
Sunday, Feb 4th; 7-10pm
Videos by MYLES and DRUE LANGLOIS, JEFF FUNNELL and JOHN WILL,
DANIEL BARROW, ERICA EYRES and GUY MADDIN!
Paul Butler is a part of the constantly evolving, idiosyncratic
Winnipeg art scene (itself the subject of a six-page 'City Report' in
the March 2006 issue of Frieze.) An ardent investor in the potential
of collaboration Butler works simultaneously as an artist, curator
(since 1998 he has organized the globally-roving "Collage Party"
project), and as the director of Winnipeg's 'othergallery'
(www.othergallery.com) which represents the work a newly emergent
generation of Canadian artists. Butler's own work predominantly takes
the form of collages - often created from the 'left-overs' from
"Collage Party" events.
SF Chronicle review on event "Creating to Cope"
A WEEKEND OF ENDEARINGLY OFFENSIVE COMEDIC ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS
with Alex Koll, Michael Meehan, Brent Weinbach, The New Golden Boys, and Sub-Standard Comix
Thursday, Feb 8 - Sunday Feb 11
SERIOUSLY HILARIOUS Opening Night Performance
featuring Alex Koll, Michael Meehan, and Brent Weinbach
Thursday, Feb 8; 8 pm
DONATIONS GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTED, FUNNY JUICE TO BE SERVED
ALEX KOLL is a comedian to the kind of person who likes Alex Koll. He has made a name for himself as the King of Import Racing three years running simply by writing "King of Import Racing" on every bathroom wall. For a while, Alex delivered wedding cakes in a Toyota that doubled as a home for an unemployed nuclear lab technician on weekends. Recently, he lost his voice, but got it back without even trying. Currently, Alex puts his art school education to good use as an occasionally employed Bay Area stand-up comedian and performer. In addition to his Triple Base opening night performance, on view will be some of his serious photography.
As a stand-up comedian, BRENT WEINBACH has gained a particularly favorable reputation in both the underground and mainstream San Francisco scenes. Through an unconventional and quirky style, Brent combines absurdism, physical humor, and cultural characterizations with an innocent and intellectual sophistication. As the Weinbach cult following continues to develop, fans the world over can be seen wearing the increasingly fashionable Weinbach t-shirt. Witness the man and the magic on opening night with selections from his "Brown Elephants" photo series.
Flying trapeze instructor, carpenter and comedian MICHAEL MEEHAN is a self-taught painter and sculptor. His art is forged from salvaged materials and a sense of the absurd. A Punch Line Comedy Club regular and Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson peformer, Michael's stand-up will be featured on opening night in addition to new works on canvas.
THE NEW GOLDEN BOYS, America's Last Chance, is a sketch comedy outfit from the great state of New Jersey featuring the high volume comedic gold of Pete Capella, Rob DiPatri, Eric Grissom, Dan McGee, and Bryan Sproat. Videos from their most hilarious moments to date will be shown throughout the Weekend of Endearingly Offensive Comedic Artistic Endeavors.
The SUB-STANDARD COMIX (a.k.a. HALF-ASS COMEDIANS) were born out of a drunken conversation in Austin, TX on April 1, 2000 between two men named Hot Puff and Lumpy. Their primary goal is to perform the worst material possible in the most unappealing and unexpected locations. Audience reactions range from "idiot" to "genius". This exhibition includes visual and audio insults from their street and stage work.
"In the Black" ART SALE
December 20-21, 2006
Help bring Triple Base into the black! This special sale features affordable works of art by the talented local artists featured in the Triple Base Flat Files. This is your chance to see everything in the flat files out on display for two-nights only. Paintings, sculptures and larger works on paper by Triple Base artists will also be included.
Click here to see works in the Flat Files for sale
The Triple Base Flat Files are designed to highlight and promote the work of Bay Area artists. The collection provides a unique resource for those interested in easily surveying a range of local artists. Sales from the Flat Files are the main source of funding for the experimental exhibitions that unfold on a monthly basis in the project space. So every dollar you spend helps us keep the space running and supports the emerging artists we feature.
Artwork by:
Alissa Anderson
Cory Archangel
Sarah Applebaum
Bert Bergen
Todd Bura
Michael Cappabianca
Beth Cook
Alika Cooper
Amanda Eicher
Tara Foley
Matt Furie
Bryson Gill
Kevin Scott Hailey
Andrew Junge
Nicholas Karvounis
Melissa Kaseman
Travis Kerkela
Justin Limoges
Kyle Mock
Dave Muller
Jay Nelson
Kottie Paloma
Paperrad
Hilary Pecis
Oliver Halsman Rosenberg
Chris Sollars
Charlene Tan
Zefrey Throwell
Andrew Tosiello
Paul Urich
California College of the Arts Sculpture Class Lecture
Instructed by Linda Flemming
October, 2006
California College of the Arts Extended Education Class Lecture
Lead by Deirdre Visser
September, 2006
Art Star Screening
June, 2006
After-Party for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts "Cosmic Wonder" Opening
July 15th, 10pm-2am
THE PRACTICE SPACE
2211 Mission Street, Suite C (18th and Mission)
$5 at the door
Proceeds benefit the "Cosmic Wonder" artist publication created by Betty Nguyen
WHITE BOX
December 9, 7 – 10 pm
WHITE BOX is a survey exhibition of small works by 40 artists from all over the country, highlighting No. 4's varied interests and 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 19th.
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.
Click here for an article on WHITE BOX in Bay Area Business Woman