Capp Street Project

Capp Street Project was established as an experimental art space in 1983 in San Francisco, California and was the first visual arts residency in the United States dedicated solely to the creation and presentation of new art installations and conceptual art.^[1] The Capp Street Project name and concept has existed since 1983, although the physical space which the residency and exhibition program occupied has changed several times. In 1998 Capp Street Project united with California College of the Arts’ Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.^[2] In 2014 Wattis celebrated 30 years of Capp Street Project Art.^[3]

History

In 1983, Capp Street Project was created by Ann Hatch who acquired a David Ireland designed house at 65 Capp Street in San Francisco.^[4] Although Hatch's original intention was to preserve the house as a work of art, a personal inquiry concerning patronage and the desire to nurture non-traditional art making processes, ultimately led in another direction. The artist-in-residency program was created and became central to Capp Street Project.

Capp Street Project became part of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts which is in turn part of the California College of the Arts in 1998 and the house at 65 Capp Street returned to the public sector.^[4][5] As a program of Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts it is currently run by Anthony Huberman, the Director since 2013.^[6] Since its inception, Capp Street Project gave more than 100 local, national, and international artists the opportunity to create new work through its residency and public exhibition programs.

Artists

Some past Capp Street Artists and their projects

Glen Seator, 1997. Seator's Approach was a full-scale indoor re-creation of the street and sidewalk outside Capp Street Project and of the street-facing facade of the gallery's first floor. Writing in the summer 1997 issue of ArtNews, critic Kenneth Baker called Seator's installation "one of the great gallery shows in this city's history." Seator's large-scale architectural installations have won international acclaim.

Ann Hamilton, 1989. In Privation and Excesses, Hamilton used 700,000 pennies, among other materials, to create a poetic exploration of systems and mediums of exchange. The installation was featured on the cover of Artforum, a career-making event for the artist.^[7]

Bill Viola, 1989. Viola's installation Sanctuary combined video, earth, and redwood trees to create an urban refuge. A renowned video artist, Viola was also awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 1989.

Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, 1987. In the Drawing Room: versions and subversions, the collaborators—who also have an architectural practice—explored themes of domesticity, architecture, the home, and the body of the imagined resident of the installation.

Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo (BAW/TAF), was a San Diego-based art collective included artists; Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Emily Hicks, Bertha Jottar, Richard Lou, Victor Ochoa, Robert Sanchez, Michael Schnorr and Rocío Weiss. In their 1989 exhibition Border Axes they created a communications network with modern equipment including fax machines, Xerox machines, an 800 phone line, and video equipment in hopes to of dissolving the borders between the US and Mexico with alternative ways of communicating and collecting news.^[8][9]

List of artists

This is a list in alphabetical order of artists who have participated in the residency.

• Seyed Alavi (1992);^[10]
• Maryanne Amacher (1985);^[11]
• Larry Andrews (1994);^[12]
• Janine Antoni;
• The Art Guys (1995), a collaborative art group from Texas;^[13]
• Nairy Baghramian (2014)^[14]
• Jerry Beck;
• Richard Bolton;
• James Lee Byars;
• Jim Campbell (with Marie Navarre) (1995) Unforeseeable Memories;^[15]
• Maria Fernanda Cardoso;
• Robert Catalusci;
• James Cathcart;
• Bruce Charlesworth;
• Shu Lea Cheang;
• Carl Cheng;
• Marie Antoinette Chiarenza;
• Mel Chin;
• Willie Cole;
• Timothy Collins;
• Elizabeth Diller;
• Kate Ericson (with Mel Ziegler) (1991);^[16]
• Frank Fantauzzi;
• Terry Fox;
• Guillermo Gómez-Peña (1989), as part of the Border Art Workshop (BAW);^[9][10]
• Joe Goode;
• Reicho Goto;
• Jane Greengold;
• Haha;
• Joanna Haigood;
• Ann Hamilton (1989);^[7]
• Mona Hatoum (1996);^[17]
• Daniel Hauser;
• Gary Hill;
• Perry Hoberman;
• Mildred Howard;
• Bob Jones;
• Ilya Kabakov;
• Ik Joong Kang;
• Barbara Kasten;
• Paul Kos (1986);^[10]
• Tony Labat (1987);^[10]
• Suzanne Lacy;
• Donald Lipski;
• Hung Liu;
• Joan Logue;
• Mary Lucier;
• John Maeda (2000);^[10]
• Tom Marioni (1990);
• Howard Martin;
• William Jackson Maxwell;
• Tony May;
• Cildo Meireles;
• Celia Álvarez Muñoz (1994);^[18]
• Marie Navarre (with Jim Campbell) (1995) Unforeseeable Memories;^[15]
• Liz Phillips;
• Huang Yong Ping;
• Daniel Reeves;
• Carissa Rodriguez(2015)^[19]
• Sarkis;
• Ricardo Scofidio;
• Glen Seator;
• Phil Simkin;
• Buster Simpson;
• Barbara T. Smith;
• George Stone;
• May Sun;
• Ritsuko Taho (1995);
• Fiona Templeton;
• Francesc Torres;
• James Turrell (1984);^[10]
• Terence Van Elslander;
• Bill Viola (1989);^[10]
• Ursula Von Rydingsvard;
• Kara Walker (1999);^[10]
• Gail Wight;
• Fred Wilson;
• Yukinori Yanagi;
• Mel Ziegler (with Kate Ericson) (1991).^[16]

References

External links

• Capp Street Project Archive
• CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
• California College of the Arts

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