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Catherine Wagner: Blue Reverie @ 500 Capp Street


  • 500 Capp Street 500 Capp Street San Francisco, CA, 94110 United States (map)

Lapis lazuli powders into winter's cloudless chill, blueberry stains Bessie Smith's voice, and we drag this color from a precious, icy bright to the wet fruit of resilience and lament. In David Ireland's house, Wagner layers her own blue meditation in her friend and colleague's home through installation, photography, projection, sound, performance, and sculptural objects. Historic light bulbs become sculptural forms while blue filters turn windows into urban lenses, painter's tape maps abstract drawings directly onto walls, all pulled from the Paule Anglim Archive to synthesize two artists' decades-long investigations. For thirty years Wagner has photographed the systems we build to contain ourselves, and here she builds one more—a chromatic conversation between friends across time.

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