Capp Street Project

Capp Street Project is an art space and artist residency, located at 65 Capp Street in San Francisco, California. The building was established as an experimental art space in 1983, 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.

The 65 Capp Street house was purchased in 2008 by Carlie Wilmans, in order to preserve both the house and Ireland’s work.[5] Wilmans is on the board of the Capp Street Foundation.[5]

In 1998, Capp Street Project became part of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, which is in turn part of the California College of the Arts and the house at 65 Capp Street returned to the public sector.[4][6] As a program of Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts it is currently run by Anthony Huberman, the Director since 2013.[7] The house opened to the public in 2016.[8] Since its inception, Capp Street Project has given more than 100 local, national, and international artists the opportunity to create new work through its residency and public exhibition programs.

In 2016, the duplex next door to 65 Capp Street was purchased by Carlie Wilmans and she had made plans to also donate it to the Capp Street Project in order to create artist housing.[9][10] In 2019, Wilmans attempted to evict six families, but due to public backlash the plans were stopped.[9][10] As a result, the Capp Street Project foundation started to distanced itself from the founder that same year.[11]

In 2019, the head curator of Capp Street Project, Bob Linder was laid off in an effort to restructure the programming and lessen exhibitions by visiting artists.[12]

Artists

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This is a list in alphabetical order by last name of artists who have participated in the Capp Street artist residency.

• Maryanne Amacher (1985);[13]
• Janine Antoni;
• The Art Guys (1995), a collaborative art group from Texas;[14]
• Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo (BAW/TAF) (1989), 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 of dissolving the borders between the US and Mexico with alternative ways of communicating and collecting news.;[15][16]
• James Lee Byars;
• Jim Campbell (with Marie Navarre) (1995) Unforeseeable Memories;[17]
• Maria Fernanda Cardoso;
• Bruce Charlesworth (1984) the first artist-in-residency at Capp Street Project;
• Mel Chin;
• Willie Cole;
• 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.
• Terry Fox;
• Guillermo Gómez-Peña (1989), as part of the Border Art Workshop (BAW);[16][18]
• Joe Goode;
• 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.;[19]
• Mona Hatoum (1996);[20]
• Mildred Howard;
• Barbara Kasten;
• Paul Kos (1986);[18]
• Tony Labat (1987);[18]
• Suzanne Lacy;
• Hung Liu;
• Mary Lucier;
• John Maeda (2000);[18]
• Tom Marioni (1990);
• Cildo Meireles;
• Celia Álvarez Muñoz (1994);[21]
• Liz Phillips;
• 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.;
• Barbara T. Smith;
• Fiona Templeton;
• James Turrell (1984);[18]
• 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;[18]
• Ursula von Rydingsvard;
• Kara Walker (1999);[18]
• Gail Wight;
• Fred Wilson;
• Mel Ziegler (with Kate Ericson) (1991).[22]

References

1. "About CSP - Capp Street Project Archive". California College of the Arts. Archived from the original on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
2. Helfand, Glen. "Capp Street Project: 20th Anniversary Exhibition". ArtForum. Artforum International Magazine. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
3. Garchik, Leah. "CCA marks 30 years of Capp Street Project art". SFGATE. Hearst Communications, Inc. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
4. "About CSP". Capp Street Project Archive. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
5. "San Francisco Art Scene Rallies In Support of Curator Laid Off from 500 Capp Street". Hyperallergic. 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
6. "Capp Street Project Archive". libraries.cca.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
7. Bliss, Chris (2013-03-14). "Anthony Huberman Appointed Director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts". California College of the Arts. Archived from the original on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
8. "Arts Entrepreneur Is Evicting Longtime Residents to Create Artist Housing in San Francisco". Hyperallergic. 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
9. "Arts Entrepreneur Is Evicting Longtime Residents to Create Artist Housing in San Francisco". Hyperallergic. 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
10. "David Ireland House benefactor Carlie Wilmans to halt eviction of Mission immigrant family following backlash". Mission Local. 2019-07-16. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
11. "David Ireland House foundation distances itself from founder's attempts to evict family". Local: In The Mission, SF Chronicle. 2019-04-29. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
12. Battaglia, Andy (2019-06-28). "500 Capp Street Lays Off Curator, Artist Cancels Exhibition". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
13. "Maryanne Amacher". Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
14. "The Art Guys At Capp Street Project" (PDF). CCA Libraries. 1995. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
15. "Border Lines: The Border Arts Workshop Goes High Tech". Robert Atkins. Village Voice News. 1989-09-26. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
16. "Border Art Workshop - Capp Street Project Archive". libraries.cca.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
17. "Jim Campbell & Marie Navarre". Capp Street Project Archive, CCA Libraries. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
18. "Capp Street Artists". CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
19. "Ann Hamilton, Capp Street Project" (PDF). CCA Libraries. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
20. "Mona Hatoum by Janine Antoni". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
21. "Celia Alvarez Munoz - Capp Street Project Archive". libraries.cca.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
22. "Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler - Capp Street Project Archive". Libraries CCA. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2016-03-12.

External links

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

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