500 Capp Street Foundation: Andy Vogt: The Ringing in My Eyes (public opening)

https://events.humanitix.com/amy-trachtenberg-and-andy-vogt-500-capp-street-opening-celebration-abstract-objects-of-devotion-and-the-ringing-in-my-eyes 500 Capp Street Foundation is pleased to present The Ringing in My Eyes, an exhibition of new sculptures and site-responsive installations by San Francisco-based artist Andy Vogt. Working with salvaged architectural materials collected over decades from Bay Area demolition sites, Vogt constructs environments that dwell between structure and sensation. Throughout the house, light, reflection, and optical vibration will highlight areas in the space with a focused visual resonance, perceptual drift, and implied spatial memory. Installed across intimate areas of David Ireland’s former home and studio, the exhibition unfolds through subtle interventions: concrete forms, mirrored surfaces, salvaged wood lath, reflected light, and suspended linear structures that appear to register frequencies moving through the architecture itself. Walls, apertures and existing traces within the house become active participants in the work. Vogt’s practice emerges from an expansive material history shaped by his use of photography, woodworking, installation, prop and architectural model making and Bay Area artist-run culture. Since the early 2000s, he has developed a sculptural language grounded in reclamation, reuse, improvisation, and careful observation of the built environment. Rather than occupying the house, The Ringing in My Eyes listens to it, treating the architecture as a resonant body that holds fossilized evidence of vibrations, reflections, memory, and duration. This exhibition is part of 500 Capp Street’s evolving program supporting artist-driven experimentation, made possible in part through support from the Teiger Foundation. About the Artist Andy Vogt (b. 1970, Washington D.C.) lives and works in San Francisco. He received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992, studying performance and time-based media. His work spans sculpture, installation, photography, and public art, often utilizing salvaged architectural materials gathered from Bay Area demolition sites over the last twenty-five years. Vogt has exhibited at the Museum of Craft and Design, Southern Exposure, Headlands Center for the Arts, and SFMOMA’s Artists Gallery, among others, and has realized major public and architectural commissions including projects for San Francisco International Airport and Texas A&M University. images credit: Andy Vogt