The Optimist Gene: Bryson Gill Solo Show, and in the Ellipsis Space, La Folie: Jason Benson & Joel Dean

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The Optimist Gene
Bryson Gill Solo Show
December 2, 2011-January 1, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, December 2, 7-10pm
Curated by Dina Pugh

Triple Base is pleased to present The Optimist Gene, an exhibition of new paintings by San Francisco-based artist Bryson Gill.
Gill’s dedicated painting practice has consistently been focused on the tenuous relationship between abstraction and figuration. While in his past work, Gill has culled imagery from personal and historical references, for his upcoming solo show at Triple Base, Gill has created his own source material out of the simplest of materials—a blank sheet of white paper. Beginning with a “blank slate” allows the artist to create original compositions through a meandering process of cutting, ripping, folding and crumpling. Like a Rorschach blot, these resulting forms oscillate between abstract shapes and recognizable objects such as leaves and branches—exposing the often arbitrary, yet magical, part of the artistic process. These compositions are then collaged, photographed and painted with a trompe-l’oeil effect onto linen that has been under-painted with graphic patterns and painterly washes.

Gill’s newest series of paintings embody the way in which random acts and interactions can create both beauty and chaos. Referring to this new style of working, the artist claims. “I sort of think about making art these days like a dog chasing it's own tail. And that makes me happy.”

Bryson Gill lives and works in San Francisco, CA and received his Bachelors in Fine Art from California College of the Arts in 2005. Gill has had solo shows at Co-Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark; Jace Gace, Portland, OR; Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT and Triple Base, San Francisco, CA. He has also been featured in group exhibitions at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA; Galerie Davide Di Maggio, Milan, Italy; Galleri Kant, Espen, Denmark; Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; and Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA. Gill’s work has been reviewed in The San Francisco Chronicle, Art Practical, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Flavorpill, and Artspeak.

In the Ellipsis Space:

La Folie
Jason Benson & Joel Dean
December 2, 2011-January 1, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, December 2, 7-10pm

The Ellipsis Space at Triple Base Gallery is pleased to present La Folie, an exhibition of collaborative work by artists Jason Benson and Joel Dean. Both formally trained in painting, Benson and Dean have experimented with expanding their practice in working collaboratively to create paintings, sculptures, and site-specific gallery installations.

For the exhibition, La Folie, a French phrase meaning "The Madness", Benson and Dean's practice as painters acts as a point of departure in the creation of the installation. The artists have created a series of sculptures by appropriating the form of a bench as a device through which to experience an exhibition. Simultaneously constructed on the floor and deconstructed on the walls, they are modes of viewing and experiencing as twofold. These sculptures are objects participating in, but disassociated from their original function.

La Folie is a rendezvous: a mannered gathering place structured to generate relationships amongst the viewer, the object, and the space.

Jason Benson currently lives and works in Oakland, CA. He received his Bachelors in Fine Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. Selected exhibitions include Monument 2 Gallery in Chicago, IL; As Is Exhibitions in Oakland, CA; and Scott Projects in Chicago. This is his first exhibition at the Ellipsis Space.

Joel Dean currently lives and works in Oakland, CA. He received his Bachelors in Fine Art from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. Dean also studied at the Ox-Bow School of Art Summer Fellowship Program and the Yale University Summer School of Music and Art Residency. Selected Exhibitions include Sight School in Oakland, CA; Monument 2 Gallery in Chicago, IL; As Is Exhibitions in Oakland, CA; MacArthur B Arthur in Oakland, CA; Extra Extra, Philadelphia, PA; and Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago, IL. This is his first exhibition at the Ellipsis Space.

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