Author: Lian Ladia

THE SPRING INVITATIONAL, HOSTED BY 500 CAPP STREET & BERKELEY ART CENTER

Artworks from the spring invitational will be accessible at 500 Capp Street until June 17, 2024. Works can also be viewed online here.

Thank you for an extraordinary weekend of creativity and collaboration, hosted by two vibrant organizations in a shared mission of fostering sustainability and planting seeds within our Bay Area arts ecosystem. Together, 500 Capp Street and Berkeley Art Center are presenting a joint fundraiser including an art sale, film screenings with Canyon Cinema, performances, and opening party.

DAY 1: Friday, May 3, 4-10pm

Art Sale and Opening Party

4-7pm VIP ACCESS

7-10pm Opening Party with DJ Dreams

The art sale features works by: Adia Millett, AJ Serrano, Ajit Chauhan, Al + Holly Wong, Alexis Arnold, Alicia Escott, Amy Nathan, Amy Yoshitsu, Andy Vogt, Angelica Trimble-Yanu, Anthony A Russell, Blanca Bercial, Callan Porter-Romero, Carolina Cuevas, Carlo Ricafort, Catherine Wagner, Cathy Lu, Char Tan, Charles Lee, City Studio/ARTIVATE (Justin Hoover, Chris Treggiari, Amy Berk), Cherisse Alcantara, Claudia Huenchuleo, Connie Zheng, Cora Lautze, Cristine Blanco, David Huffman, David Wilson, Emma Strebel, Felix Quintana, Francesca Pastine, Fredi Lopez, Gericault De La Rose, Golbanou Moghaddas, Greg Borman, Harley Healy, Helia Pouyanfar, Ilana Crispi, Jane Manning Veit, Jean Pettigrew Whelan, Jessica Cadkin, Jillian Crochet, Jonathan Bout, Justin Nagle, Kacy Jung, Katherine Sherwood, Katherine Vetne, Kelly Inoue, Lava Thomas, Laura Pacchini, Lauren Hartman, Lee Oscar Gomez, Lena Gustafson, Lenore Chinn, Lexygius Sanchez Calip, Libby Black, Linda Geary, Luka Vergoz, Marcel Pardo Ariza, Marcius Noceda, Megan Wilson, Michael Arcega, Minoosh Zomorodinia, Natasha Loewy, Nicole Shaffer, Owen Takabayashi, Paz G, Raisa Solis, Rebecca Kaufman, Rico Duenas, Rochelle Youk, Ryan Whelan, Sam Tripodi, Sanaz Safanassab, Sarah Smith, Selby Sohn, Sheila Ghidini, Sergio De La Torre, Thad Higa, Tricia Rainwater, Trina Michelle Robinson, (Untitled Collective) Alex Ehmer + Hanah Yost , Weston Teruya, Xandra Ibarra, yétúndé olagbaju, Zoe Loa

DAY 2: Saturday, May 4, 4-9pm

with Canyon Cinema!

4pm Anthony McCall Screenings

6pm TT Takemoto Screenings

8pm Outdoor film Program, Seeing Sound curated by Canyon Cinema with films by: Mary Ellen Bute, Oskar Fischinger, Stan VanDerBeek, Barry Spinello, Jodie Mack, Tomonari Nishikawa Tommy Becker.

Also on View: Palm Assembly photo booth, Light sculptures by Rico Duenas. Food pop-ups by Shirini Bakes, Fox + Lion

DAY 3: Sunday, May 5, 3-6pm

Performances and Live Auction

Featuring: Evicshen, Ava Koohbor, Sholeh Asgary, Beast Nest, London Pinkney and Sun Park

ONLINE SALE: Running until June 17, 2024

View an extensive array of art, and have a chance to collect work from emerging to established artists! Works from the sale can be viewed at 500 Capp Street until June 17 and online through the link below:

https://www.berkeleyartcenter.org/shop


WHY A COLLABORATIVE FUNDRAISER?

500 Capp Street and Berkeley Art Center are continuing in their collaboration to support Bay Area artists and forge partnerships that envision new models of support for our arts ecosystem. Arts & Culture thrives on deepening relationships, and we’re inviting YOU, our community to envision these new models with us! Learn more about 500 CAPP STREET, BERKELEY ART CENTER, and CANYON CINEMA on our websites.

INVEST IN THREE ICONIC ARTIST-DRIVEN BAY AREA ART ORGANIZATIONS.

The online sale ends on June 17, 2024. You can still support this endeavor.

SPONSORS

Lead Sponsor (Light Keeper): Van Cleef & Arpels

Co-sponsors (Groundbreaker): Layag Associates Inc, Sterling Art Services, Personal Space, Matt Katsaros, Joana Francener. (Philanthropist): Eungie Joo , Cobrador and Associates PLLC

Special Thanks: Abby Banks, Victor Saucedo, Fredi Lopez, Raisa Solis, Anthony Russell, Owen Takabayashi

YOUTH EDUCATION: Artivate – Our Food, My Work, Our Land/Recipes of Resilience

Artivate is an education program led by City Studio artists/educators Amy Berk, Chris Treggiari with summer guest artists Oscar Lopez, Annie Albagli, Cheryl Meeker. Programs are held at 215 Haight Street in San Francisco and at the David Ireland House at 500 Capp Street and at other locations.

This summer 500 Capp Street’s education program led by City Studio is participating in a project with renowned muralist Oscar Lopez and his investigation of food justice in the project Artivate – Your Food, My Work, Our Land; with artist Oscar Lopez in support of California farmworkers.  10 youth artists will be making prints inspired by his incredible project and working both in the studio and hopefully in the field to meet actual farmworkers and teens who are affiliated with farm work.

The youth education program will also be exploring the work of the conceptual artist David Ireland at 500 Capp Street and engaging with artists in residence at that venue including artist Annie Albagli whose multimedia work explores personal and environmental narratives inextricably bound together by different forms of power, including the government, military, and industry. In the end, they will produce imaginary narratives that tap into biology, geography and personal histories. Interns will also participate in a dinner salon featuring the Recipes of Resilience David Ireland Project.

Reading and Conversation with Tom Marioni

GET YOUR TICKETS

One of California’s celebrated figures of conceptual art, Tom Marioni shares stories and reads anecdotes from his new book, Social Art: The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the highest form of Art (1970 -) Join us for an intimate conversation at 500 Capp Street on Saturday, August 17 at 3pm – 4pm.

Tom Marioni is an American artist and educator, known for his conceptual artwork. Marioni was active in the emergence of Conceptual Art movement in the 1960s. He founded the Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) in San Francisco from 1970 until 1984. He is currently living and working out of San Francisco, California.

Milk Teeth

Annie Albagli

September 12 – November 2, 2024

Events

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 5:30 – 9 pm, Free

Performance: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 6:30 pm  (duration 30 minutes), Free

Artist Talk: Annie Albagli and Amanda Nudelman, Monday, October 28, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Free

On the occasion of the exhibition, Milk Teeth, Amanda Nudelman was commissioned to write a text, Everything’s a Rock. Please find it here.

San Francisco-based artist Annie Albagli considers the origins of life in a new, multifaceted installation work at 500 Capp Street. Albagli transforms the dining room of the David Ireland house into a meditation on where we come from. A carved limestone sculpture covering the entirety of the dining table reaches back in time and into the fossil record to trace the web of life between sea, land, and cosmos. An expansive ceiling work of digital prints layers celestial bodies and mothers’ bodies in a densely intertwined mosaic of birth mythologies. A video work weaves in Albagli’s personal origin story, and visitors will be able to add their own stories through public education programs.

As part of the exhibition, Albagli is organizing several public events and exhibition activations, including the September 26 premiere of a collective performance score by artist Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs. Later in the year, Albagli and fellow artists from UNIDEE’s Neither on Land Nor on Sea residency join together for an online and in person interactive event in which both artists and audience are invited to share speculative stories about objects, materials, and place.

Annie Albagli has presented solo exhibitions at such venues as Headlands Center for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. She has participated in exhibitions and festivals at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C., Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA, Muzeul Zemstvei in Chisinau, Moldova, Art Prospect in St. Petersburg, Russia, and The Trash3 Festival in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Her videos have screened as part of the Imagined Biennials Project at the Tate Modern in London, UK, the Bavarian Film Festival, ZWICKL in Schwandorf, Germany, and Artist Television Access in San Francisco, CA. Residencies throughout the U.S. and internationally have supported her work including UNIDEE’s Neither on Land nor Sea, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Art East, and The Headlands Center for the Arts. She has contributed to various artists’ land projects such as AZ West, Mildred’s Lane, and Salmon Creek Farm. Between 2017-18, Albagli was a YBCA Truth Fellow. She is a co-founder and editor of the publication, WHIZ WORLD, and former Co-Director for the Royal Nonesuch Gallery. She is a visiting faculty member at the University of Nevada MFA-IA program and is currently a 2023-26 Lucas Artists Residency Program Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA.

500 Capp Street’s fall exhibitions are generously funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional funding for Milk Teeth is provided by the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Collaborating With The Muses Part One: Excerpts from the Time and Space of Now

Mildred Howard

September 21 – October 26, 2024

Reception: Saturday, September 21, 2024 6pm., FREE

Film Screening + Talk with Mildred Howard, Elena Gross and Dewey Crumpler: Thursday, October 17, 2024. Doors open at 5:30pm, $10 (Limited Tickets Available)

A key figure in the Bay Area art scene for over 50 years, artist Mildred Howard will launch Collaborating with the Muses Part One in September of 2024, a series of overlapping exhibitions at multiple venues. This ambitious project reflects the variation and scope of Howard’s multidisciplinary practice, to which large-scale sculptural installations, public artworks, and assemblages are central but which includes a wide range of mediums including print and film.

A major theme uniting the various exhibitions is the dialogue and interplay between different artistic disciplines, particularly the important role of music — whether as an unseen part of a work’s genesis behind the scenes (as when an artist listens to music while creating in the studio, for example) or as an identifiable element incorporated into the final work. 

Collaborating with the Muses Part One kicks off on September 7 at Anglim/Trimble in San Francisco, who have represented Howard for more than three decades, with an exhibition centered around a selection of large-scale photographic prints, The Time and Space of Now, Moving Stills. Next, At Oakland’s pt.2 Gallery, Howard will debut a new installation inspired by Peace Piece, one of her favorite compositions by eminent jazz pianist Bill Evans. Howard has also selected internationally known Bay Area musicians to take part in this work. Howard will show her 2021 film “The Time and Space of Now” at 500 Capp Street on Sept 21. Exhibited for the month will be a partial excerpt of the large-scale installation work that accompanied the film’s premiere at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.

About the film, The Time and Space of Now. Outdoor Screening at 500 Capp Street, September 21, Saturday, 7:30 pm.

The Time and Space of Now was created following Howard’s discovery, amongst materials left by her mother, of 8 mm. film that had been stowed in a purse for decades. It is composed of archival footage Howard took as a 14-year-old girl in Texas, interspersed with material shot on the beach in Alameda, and augmented by a fictional, unscripted, metaphysical dialogue between the artists Dewey Crumpler and Oliver Lee Jackson. The work illuminates storytelling, borders, migration, and the interconnected nature of time and space. (Dir. Mildred Howard, 16:21 min).

Mildred Howard (b. 1945, San Francisco, CA) is best known for her multimedia assemblage work and installations. Howard completed her Associates of Arts Degree & Certificate in Fashion Art at the College of Alameda, Alameda, CA in 1977 and received her M.F.A. from Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA in 1985. In 2015, she received the Lee Krasner Award in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement. She has also been the recipient of the Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2017), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2004/5), a fellowship from the California Arts Council (2003), the Adaline Kent Award from San Francisco Art Institute (1991), and, most recently, received the Douglas G. MacAgy Distinguished Achievement Award at San Francisco Art Institute (2018). Her large-scale installations have been mounted at: Creative Time in New York, InSITE in San Diego, CA; the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the New Museum in New York, the City of Oakland; and the San Francisco Arts Commission and International Airport. Her works reside in the permanent collections of: the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; the Museum of Glass and Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA; the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA; and the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, among others.

500 Capp Street’s fall exhibitions are generously funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

The Time And Space Of Now: Screening + Talk

October 17, 2024, Thursday: Doors open at 5:30, Conversation and screening start at 6:00.

With Mildred Howard’s Excerpts from the Time and Space of Now underway, due to popular demand, we invite you to join us for a screening and conversation on Thursday, October 17th, 2024. There will be an additional screening of  Howard’s The Time and Space of Now, followed by and anteceded with conversations including Howard, Elena Gross of the Berkeley Arts Center, and Dewey Crumpler, artist and former associate professor of painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. 

About the film, The Time and Space of Now. Outdoor Screening at 500 Capp Street, 

The Time and Space of Now was created following Howard’s discovery, amongst materials left by her mother, of 8 mm. film that had been stowed in a purse for decades. It is composed of archival footage Howard took as a 14-year-old girl in Texas, interspersed with material shot on the beach in Alameda, and augmented by a fictional, unscripted, metaphysical dialogue between the artists Dewey Crumpler and Oliver Lee Jackson. The work illuminates storytelling, borders, migration, and the interconnected nature of time and space. (Dir. Mildred Howard, 16:21 min).

Mildred Howard is best known for her multimedia assemblage work and installations. Howard completed her Associates of Arts Degree & Certificate in Fashion Art at the College of Alameda, Alameda, CA in 1977 and received her M.F.A. from Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA in 1985. In 2015, she received the Lee Krasner Award in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement. She has also been the recipient of the Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists (2017), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2004/5), a fellowship from the California Arts Council (2003), the Adaline Kent Award from San Francisco Art Institute (1991), and, most recently, received the Douglas G. MacAgy Distinguished Achievement Award at San Francisco Art Institute (2018). Her large-scale installations have been mounted at: Creative Time in New York, InSITE in San Diego, CA; the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the New Museum in New York, the City of Oakland; and the San Francisco Arts Commission and International Airport. Her works reside in the permanent collections of: the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; the Museum of Glass and Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA; the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA; and the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, among others.

Elena Gross  is an independent writer and curator living in Oakland, CA. She specializes in representations of identity in fine art, photography, and popular media. Her research has been centered around conceptual and material abstractions of the body in the work of Black modern and contemporary artists and most recently in queer artistic and literary histories of the late 20th century. Her most recent writing can be found in the publication Blood Sweat & Time: Emerging Perspectives on Mildred Howard and Adrian Burrell (Sming Sming Books). Elena is the co-editor, along with Julie R. Enszer, of OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture (Rutgers University Press), winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthologies.   

Dewey Crumpler’s current work examines issues of globalization/ cultural co-modification through the integration of digital imagery, video and traditional painting techniques. Dewey’s works are in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco DeYoung Museum, Bank of America Collection at Harvey B. Gantt Center, the California African American Museum, Triton Museum of Art Los Angeles and the Oakland Museum Of California. Crumpler received the Flintridge Foundation Award, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, as well as The Fleishhacker Foundation Fellowship Eureka Award.  Currently represented by Jenkins Johnsons Gallery,  “Post Atlantic” ANDREW KREPS GALLERY  Art Basel Kabinett Sector, Painting Is an Act of Spiritual Aggression are his most recent exhibitions. As of August 2024, the Driskell Center Archive at the University of Maryland, College Park will be home to The Crumpler Collection, a gift of Dewey Crumpler.