Now, It’s About What You Can’t See

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Triple Base is pleased to announce Now, It’s About What You Can’t See, a group show exploring absence through painting, drawing and installation. This exhibition features four female artists showing at Triple Base for the first time: Rachel E. Foster, Mara Baldwin, Chechu Álava and Eleanor Kent.

The four exhibiting artists span varied mediums, generations and geographical boundaries. However, all are similarly interested in the tension between simultaneous absence and presence, as evident in the wear and breakdown of belongings, the fading and reinterpretation of memory and the conflicting truths of contemporary and historical experience. Their works provide faint shadowy traces of moments to imagine what once existed and hint at an ever-evolving history.

Mara Baldwin’s detailed drawings are based on found photographs from estate sales. The erasure of the primary image leaves a haunted space that implies a longing for the American dream; a dream as transient as the ghost. Rachel E. Foster’s nearly imperceptible text-based installation will cover the gallery walls. The work suggests how the absence of images and the form of words alone can conjure powerful meanings. Eleanor Kent will display a body of rarely seen small-scale paintings created during the 1960s Bay Area Figurative movement. Kent’s loosely rendered figures convey personal moments of times past. Paris-based Chechu Álava mines 19th century portraiture and literature as fodder for her softly blurred paintings of female forms that leave room for imagination to fill the gap between the historical and contemporary.

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