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The Andy Warhol Foundation Honors 500 Capp Street through “The Philanthropy Factory”

We are happy to announce that 500 Capp Street has been selected to participate in the inaugural “Philanthropy Factory,” a new initiative honoring Andy Warhol’s philanthropic legacy by providing recent grantees an opportunity to benefit from the sale of Warhol works from the Andy Warhol Foundation’s collection.

Highlighted above is a Polaroid taken by Andy Warhol of Halston’s partner and Warhol’s assistant, Victor Hugo. Hugo, a performance artist and window designer, was a constant figure in Warhol’s photographs. Usually depicted by Warhol in a sexualized and provocative context, often fully nude or with his penis out, here he is seen in a different facet, as a member of the Studio 54 royal court.

Our fall programming is proudly supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, and we are honored to be selected for this fundraising opportunity. All proceeds from the sale of seven Warhol pieces will go towards supporting 500 Capp Street’s operations, enabling us to continue encouraging artistic experimentation through our programming and artist residencies.

This work and more are available here. Don’t miss this chance to support 500 Capp Street and grab yourself an exclusive Andy Warhol piece.

Artist conversation between Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo & David Wilson

Wednesday, June 23, 6 pm PT
In Person & Online

Join us for an intimate artist conversation between David Wilson and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo on Wednesday, June 23 at 6pm. Drop by in person, or tune in on Instagram Live @500cappstreet. David Wilson is the resident artist of The David Ireland House while artist Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo is the curator of Southern Exposure’s current exhibition, We use our hands to support. They have previously collaborated with one another and now find themselves in the same neighborhood doing collective exhibition work. Join the artists as they check in on each other, share stories and, exchange experiences of their work processes in an intimate one-on-one dialog.

This program will take place outdoors on The David Ireland House terrace. Free and open to the public.

Doors: 5:30 pm PT
Program: 6:00 pm PT

Links to the shows:
We use our hands to support, Curated by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo at Southern Exposure @southernexposuresf

Sittings, David Wilson exhibition after 4 months of residency at The David Ireland House @500cappstreet

About the artists:

Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo is an artist, activist, educator, storyteller & curator who lives/works between Ohlone Land [Oakland, CA] and Powhatan Land [Richmond,VA]. Their work has been included in exhibitions and performances at Konsthall C [Stockholm, Sweden], SEPTEMBER Gallery [Hudson, NY], EFA Project Space [New York City, NY], Leslie Lohman Museum [New York City, NY], San Francisco State University Gallery, Signal Center for Contemporary Art [Malmo, Sweden], Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [San Francisco, CA] and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [Berkeley, CA], amongst others. For the past 5 years, Lukaza has been the Lead Curator at Nook Gallery [Oakland, CA], collaborating with over 80+ artists, writers, performers & musicians, in a gallery located in their apartment kitchen. They are currently enrolled in an MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.


David Wilson creates observational drawings based on direct experiences with landscape and orchestrates site-based gatherings that draw together a wide net of artists, performers, filmmakers, chefs, and artisans into collaborative relationships. He organized the experimental exhibition The Possible at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and received the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) 2012 SECA Art Award. He has exhibited his work with SFMOMA, was included in the 2010 CA Biennial, and presented a Matrix solo exhibition at BAMPFA. Wilson has received grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation, Southern Exposure, The Center for Craft and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. He is based in Oakland, CA.


Milk Teeth

Annie Albagli

September 12 – November 2, 2024

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

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

Register to the Opening Reception and Performance

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 to the installation, sending them via fax to a machine stationed in the kitchen.

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. On Sunday, October 19, 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.

“Know Chance” with Timothy Berry and Jeremy Morgan

Timothy Berry and Jeremy Morgan

September 28, 2024 from 4-6 pm

Limited Tickets

Join artists Timothy Berry and Jeremy Morgan for a conversation about the role of chance in art-making. Timothy will share insights from his Felix Culpa Suite, 2015 created in collaboration with Magnolia Editions, based on the 10 most endangered species on earth. Together, they’ll meditate on the role of chance in our lives, specifically in regard to “art-making”

The talk will be accompanied by a curated exhibition in the Paule Anglim Archive Room of prints and pieces from the artists’ archives and our collection of experimental prints made by David Ireland.

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

Mural Unveiling And Artist Talk with Champoy and Miguel Franco

Join us for the unveiling of the two murals commissioned alongside our current exhibition, Maintenance Actions for Dis/Repair, co-curated by our 2024 Archives and Collections Fellows Alexander An-Tai Hwang and Lesdi Goussen Robleto. Artists Champoy, commissioned for a mural painted on the facade of our garage, and Miguel Franco, commissioned for a mural painted alongside the Clarion Alley Mural Project, will talk about their inspirations and guide us on a walk from 500 Capp St to Clarion Alley.

Register Here

Elisa Isaacson (she/her) is a writer and fundraiser with a deep commitment to supporting the
Bay Area arts and nonprofit ecosystem. She has worked for the San Francisco Art Institute, the
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Luggage Store, and range of other local
arts and education organizations and is currently the Director of Corporate & Foundation
Relations at the University of San Francisco. Elisa has taught writing at the middle, high school
and college levels and has served on the Board of the School of Theatre at the Oakland School
for the Arts. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan
and a Master’s in Creative Writing from New York University.

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: Saturday, September 21, 2024, 7:30pm, $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.