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Comment: You're up, Triple Base Gallery, with "Collectors Edition," a group show of art centered around items salvaged from the now-demolished Winfield wallpaper factory. Small-format works by a number of San Francisco's more talented up-and-comers hang from the ceiling in plastic sleeves that may have once been used to display Winfield wallpaper samples. So you get to hold the art as well as look at it, not something you can usually do until after you buy. Other items saved from Winfield include large silkscreens, hung along one wall, and a quirky engaging series of photographs of stuffed animals on exhibit in the front window (which the photographers from the Adobe show might want to take a look at).

Triple Base is evolving nicely, this being their best show yet. It's a suggested stop for local trendwatchers, a lesson in what artists have to do to get their art out in front of the public, and a testing ground for experimental frontline artist survival techniques. Not everyone's gonna make it, but those who do will learn that it ain't just about the money, honey.

Artist/Artists: Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Paul Allan, Brian Barneclo, Chris Benfield, David Benzler, Adrien Blanc, Ryan Boyle, Olivia Brown, Sheila Buchanan, Charlie Callahan, Ryan Callis, Alda Cartwright, Russ Connelley, Veronica DeJesus, Chris Duncan, Sasha Duerr, Tara Foley, Jim Gaylord, Sarah Grierson, Robert Guiterrez, Henry and Mariacel Guzman, Diego Hadis, Rich Jacobs, Colter Jacobson, Jason Jagel, Xylor Jane, Brad Kalder, Patricia Kelly, Sahar Khoury, Chris Miraglia, Nickolas C. Mohanna, Mike Murnane, Miranda Patau, Zane Peach, Ben Petterson, Bernardo Poggi-Leigh, Joss Pollard, Kyle Ranson, Huey Reed, Lettie-Jane Rennekamp, Albert Reyes, Antonio Roman-Alcala, Brion Nuda Rosch, Oliver H. Rosenberg, Andrew Schoultz, Mary Scott, Ken Shimizu, Sara Smith, Clint Taniguchi, Micke Tong, Lulu Troncoso, Liz Walsh, Michael Wells, and Mary Elizabeth Yarborough.