Triple Base Gallery is pleased to present Intricacies of Phantom Content, an exhibition of new work by San Francisco-based artist Hilary Pecis. This will be Pecis’s first solo show at the gallery. The “Triple Basement” will feature a coinciding video installation by Elyse Mallouk. In conjunction with their exhibitions, Pecis and Mallouk will curate a performance series throughout the month of July.

Pecis’s mixed media works are varied iterations of an imagined post-apocalyptic landscape, where consumer goods are hemorrhaging from a rock-like skeletal system. Evolution is depicted in the detailed layers of rock, along with gelatinous collaged pieces used to describe tumors growing exponentially. Pecis assembles images and shards from glossy magazine pages and repositions them in a continually expanding and mutating environment. Shine and sparkle are everywhere, attracting the attention of, while distracting the viewer from the disarray of the landscape. Pecis’s multi-layered work is underpinned by her interest in a postmodern identity that is increasingly driven by superficial consumer frenzy and media culture. Pecis had a solo show at Receiver Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2008) and was a recipient of the Murphy Cadogan Fellowship (2008). Selected group exhibitions include Scion Space, Los Angeles, CA; Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA; Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH; SF Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA; Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA; Okay Mountain, Austin, TX; Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA; Hinterconti, Hamburg, Germany; Marfa Salon, Marfa, TX; and Samson Projects, Boston, MA