Recent Shows

Flux Tableau

Saturday, May 19th, 2012
6:30pm (sharp) - 8:30am

Private event with invitation
Address provided if interested.
Please e-mail info@terrancegraven.com
Sausalito, CA

Three live drawing sessions.

100 Performances for the Hole: Third Strike

Saturday, December 10, 2011
5:58pm - 12:00am or until finished

SOMArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan St.
San Francisco, CA

Third Strike: 100 Performances for The Hole is a mini-marathon of time-based performance. Each performance lasts just two minutes and takes place in, around, in contradiction of, or is inspired by “The Hole,” a 100-year-old former sand casting pit in the floor of the SOMArts Main Gallery.

This event was conceived by SOMArts Curator & Gallery Director, Justin Hoover. In his words, “We imagine this biennial event as a spectrometer for time- based art, an open forum for creativity reflecting contemporary media and popular culture. It’s a rare and much needed opportunity for Bay Area artists to engage in unencumbered live performance art in a way that is simultaneously intimate and macroscopic.”

Chapel of the Chimes

Sunday, November 20, 2011
2:00pm - 5:30p

Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Avenue
Oakland, CA

OFF Space is pleased to present an afternoon of performance works by artists Terrance Graven, Justin Hoover, Bert Bergen and Jack Leamy, Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov, Krisztina Lazar, Michelle Morby in conjunction with a reception for all Ever After artists on Sunday November 20th, from 2 - 5:30pm.

Don't miss your last opportunity to see first ever exhibition of visual and performance art at the historic Julia Morgan designed Chapel of the Chimes! Performances and artist reception on Sunday November 20th from 3-6pm

"Ever After" features 15 installations by artists:
Maggie Simpson Adams, Glenna Cole Allee, Rachel Dawson, Victoria Heilweil, Elyse Hochstadt, Karrie Hovey, Phil King, Marya Krogstad, Yuki Maruyama, Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetsov, Jessica Pezalla, Luther Thie, Linda Trunzo, Andrew Witrak, Kathrine Worel.

The Chapel of the Chimes, aside from its historical importance and architectural beauty serves as a site of repose, contemplation, transcendence and remembrance. It is, on many levels, easy to draw comparisons of intent and use between the Chapel and museums, as art too is a portal to the sublime—the intuition that there is something powerfully beautiful and perhaps fearsome beyond our quotidian experience. The intention of this exhibition is to draw parallels between the “eternal” qualities of art, qualities that give ones life meaning and The Eternal, that which awaits us all, and which is honored at the Chapel. As each “mini installation” will be relevant to the chapel in which it is placed, it is our hope that the artwork will provide a thought provoking moment of surprise and beauty for visitors and an opportunity to reflect upon creation in its many guises.

9/10 - The Day Before Never and Ever

Saturday, September 10, 2011
6:00pm - 11:30pm

Bay Area 51
1667 Jerrold Ave.
San Francisco, CA

PERFORMANCES BY:
Da Assstronauts
Tiny Tina The Time Bomb
Miss (PIGGY) America
Eric Svedas
Grandpa Jenkins
Ray Mack
Brel Forbes
Renee Von Trier
Rotating Structure Gross Liftoff Weight
Splendid Climax Or Awkward Moment
Copy Lake
Paul Knowles
Honey Mchoney
Terrance Graven

Chain Letter

July 23 - August 25, 2011
Opening Saturday, July 23 / 6-8 pm

Shoshana Wayne Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue, B1
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Chain Letter is a group exhibition based on admiration. Initially conceived by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey in 2006, inclusion in the exhibition is based on invitation by someone who admires your work. Each artist invited then invites ten other artists whom they admire, and so on. This email invite will circulate for thirty days, at the end of which each artist will install their own work on the floor at Shoshana Wayne Gallery.

This exhibition is rooted in the ideals of inclusion, and highlights the social nature of the art world. It is the hope of the curators that the response will be vast and that the artists represented will be an exponential representation of all artists that are currently working and admired by their peers.

Chain Letter mimics communication today; and the way in which information is passed. The outcome will be a testament to the power of connectivity within society at present.

The Lab Performance and Sound Art Festival:
Division of Labor

July 15th, 16th & 22nd & 23rd, 2011
Doors 8:00, show 8:30 pm
Buy a festival pass for $36
Co-curated by Sarah Bernat, Eilish Cullen, Terrance Graven,
       and Honey McMoney
Design by Bert Bergen + Grant LaValley

The Lab
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA
p: 415.864.8855

Division of Labor playfully examines experimental music, sound, performance, and DJ Culture, bringing together distinctive artists and uniting diverse audiences from within The Lab’s innovative creative community and beyond.

Friday, July 15th - $11
Terrance Graven and Heather Ciriza will present a collaborative piece entitled, Nothing to Stand On. It will incorporate sculptural elements, live performance, and a live sound piece that will explore falling into the wound and the escape of disconcerting dreams.

Saturday, July 16th - $12
Terrance Graven will present a solo performance piece entitled, The Body Speaks to the Worms: By You My Flesh Is Horribly Decorated. It will feature sculptural elements, live performance, and a sound piece that skirts issues of entrapment and the body in distress within the context of the 14th century and its relevance to modern day living.

For complete schedule

Shadowshop

November 20, 2010 - April 30, 2011

SFMOMA
151 Third Street (between Mission + Howard)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel: 415.357.4000

Stephanie Syjuco: An in-gallery emporium of local artists' merchandise that explores alternative models of distribution. The exhibition itself will continually change, with a varying array of works on view; from this gathering of diverse forms and voices, common themes emerge: fragmentation, fragility, entropy, metamorphosis, reconfiguration.

Terrance Graven will exhibit mourning ribbons, gold leafed medications, and embroidered patches.

Images from the show

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Bodies in Space(s):
Negotiating Sites/Sights

September 22, 2010
8:00 - 10 pm
$5/advance (at Madrone) or $10/door

Madrone Art Bar
500 Divisadero St (at Fell)
San Francisco, CA
info line: 415/241-0202

Exhibition:
Jeffrey Beauchamp • Theophilus Brown • Linda Wallgren

Performances:
Bert Bergen • Daniel Blomquist • Terrance Graven • Justin Hoover • Geraldine Lozano • Lauren Marsden • Honey McMoney • Crystal Nelson • Heather Sparks • Kathryn Williamson • The Muistardeaux Collective

This presentation contemplates how experiences and representations of the body are embedded in socially conditioned modes of expression, and are constituted as sites/sights of identification, agency, and personal history, articulated in varied cultural spaces.

POST 9/11...the day after forever... FREEDOOMED...

September 12, 2010
6:00 pm - 11:30 pm

NOMA Gallery
80 Maiden Lane, 3rd Floor (@ Grant)
San Francisco, CA
Performance, art, and noise.

organized by Paul Knowles and Harry Crofton

Please join us on September 12th @ NOMA Gallery for a night of performances that celebrate and contest the current state of living in the United States of America..... between 6 pm and midnight. An evening of performances will be taking place including the likes of:

Matthew Post
Terrance Graven
Brel Froebe
Eric Svedas
Jonah Susskind
Frankie America & Me
Paul Knowles
Honey McMoney

and more........................

BLACK LAB

August 13th - August 28th, 2010

The Lab
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA
p: 415.864.8855

Opening reception
Friday, August 13, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Special performances by Terrance Graven and Gerritt Wittmer & Paul Knowles

Performance Night
Friday, August 20, 8:00 - Midnight.
Performances by Group Rhoda, Eric Svedas, Amir Coyle, Eighth Evening, and more. Afterwards dance party with DJ's Warm Leatherette and more

Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
FREE admission
Featuring: Vincent Como with Reuben Lorch Miller, Eric Larson, Rachel Dawson, Josh Hagler, Faye Kendal, Eric Madsen, Malcolm Smith, lourdes of the flies, Michael Campbell, Caitlin Denny and Marcella Faustini, Terrance Graven, Ben Venom, Ryan De La Hoz, Kara Joslyn, Group Rhoda, Amir Coyle, Gerritt Wittmer and Paul Knowles, and No Peace at the Gates.

The Junk Mail Show:
So Many Products, So Little Time

July 9th - July 30th, 2010
Artist Reception: Friday July 9; 6-9PM

Gallery Hours: Monday -Thursday 10-1 or by appointment.

Soap Gallery
3180 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA
between Cesar Chavez & Valencia

Email: sfsoapgallery@yahoo.com

Phone: 415-920-9199

Curator: Andy Vogt & Sarah Smith

A group exhibition of bay area and midwestern artists presenting meditations on the ultramundane products that surround us. Using 'Junk Mail' as a roadmap participants create homages to the detritus of the mail slot.

Featuring 20 Bay Area and Midwestern artists including: Bert Bergen, Meri Brin, Jeff Canham, Randy Colosky, Creativity Explored artists (TBA), Ilana Crispi, Lauren Davies, Derek Fagerstrom, Tara Foley, Erica Gangsei, Terrance Graven, Jennie Hinchcliff, Malik Johnson, Kyle Knobel, Bessie Kunath, Miriam Lakes, Denise Laws, Kristina Lewis, Mike McConnell, Honey McMoney, Daniel Nevers, Kelsey Nicholson, John Riegert, Michelle Rose, Mark Stramaglia, Sarah Smith, Lauren Smith, Chalene Tan, Nicholas Torres, Scott Tsuchitani, Andy Vogt, Sam Ward, Christine Wong-Yap

Eidolon (Illusion/Delusion/Allusion)

Friday May 21st and Saturday May 22nd, 2010
Climate Gallery
285 9th St @ Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
$5 admission

www.climatetheater.com

Terrance Graven will feature two photographs and a performative installation entitled The Spoiler Set / His Seal of Silence which will be performed on May 22nd.

A few highlights of the evening will include: Elyse Hochstadt's sculptural installation "half truths and uncertain realities" which deals with the construction of memory with it's aspects of myth and fantasy; Philip Greenlief's solo saxophone performance of the original composition, "Mirrors," with which he will "seek to destroy the security blanket of western harmony;" Vita and Bryan Hewitt's scanned x-ray photographs, which allude to the collective memory of place, specifically, of San Francisco, in all it's true and fictive transience; Pantea Karimi’s prints, which combine iconic imagery from her homeland of Iran and the U.S. in a metaphoric layering that alludes to cultural identity, societal restriction, corporate hegemony, and political censorship; Terrance Graven's performative installations which use ritual materials to explore mortality, loss, and the frailty of the body; and John Melvin’s site-specific installation exploring the idea of transitional states.

100 Performances for the Hole -
Take Two

March 6th, 2010
SOMArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan St.
San Francisco, CA
Opening: March 6, 2010
5:58 pm until 1:00 am (or until done)

Exhibition Dates: March 6 – March 26, 2010
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm & Saturday 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$2 to $12 suggested donation

www.somarts.org

On March 6th, for one night only, SOMArts Cultural Center will feature a progression of two-minute performances by one hundred artists. SOMArts has a unique space, among other attributes, it houses a large mechanics pit in the floor of its main gallery. This pit will be transformed into a unique platform for performance.

After the live event, documentation of all the pieces will be exhibited in the gallery for the duration of the month.

From Ancient to Present

November 20th, 2009
De Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA
6:00 - 9:00 pm

Aghast

October 9th - November 3rd, 2009
K Gallery
2513 Blanding Avenue
Alameda, CA
Opening on Oct. 9th from 6:00 - 10:00 pm.

CLICK HERE for pics

TEMPVS: A Solo Project

July 2 - August 1, 2009
David Cunningham Projects Gallery
1928 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA
Opening Reception: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
With performance around 8:00 pm

Normal Hours: Noon - 6:00 pm
Thursday thru Saturday

Getting Involved

I recycle many used and found objects for costumes, props, and installations.
I would appreciate any contributions or donations.

If interested, I would ask that you provide the name of a deceased one– a death that was
especially difficult to deal with. If you wish, you may also share a memory, whether pleasant
or unpleasant. You may request to have this information confidential if you desire.

Donations wanted:

If interested, please contact me:

info@terrancegraven.com