Annie Albagli with Amanda Nudelman
Monday, October 28, 2025. 6:00pm. Get your tickets
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.
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.
Amanda Nudelman is a curator and writer based in the Bay Area and currently a Director, Artist Relations at Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. She was the closing Exhibitions and Public Programs Curator at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and previously held positions at KADIST, San Francisco and UNTITLED, ART. Recent exhibitions and programs have been presented at / (Slash) (San Francisco), Wattis Institute (San Francisco), e-flux (New York), Royal Nonesuch Gallery (Oakland), swissnex (San Francisco), and Headlands Center for the Arts (Marin). Her writing has appeared in Creative Villages Journal, CSPA Quarterly, and Blackout Magazine. She holds a MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
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.