Royale Projects has worked with Kenneth Capps for over a decade. He has always been a man of few words. He thinks deeply about art but doesn’t pontificate; he makes. Since the 1970s, he has worked with industrial materials, constructing objects that explore the fundamental principles of art. Now at age 81, he continues to create from his studio on the California coast and his vast acreage in the mountains.
By removing all unnecessary decoration, he is able to make art with a single sheet of steel or two elements that are intrinsically balanced. Like his sculptures, his words are distilled to the most essential parts of a thought.
-Rick Royale
Installation View of Cycloids, 2020.
How are you spending your days during stay-at-home?
Working at two very different studios and environments.
How has this impacted work?
Urgency.
Left to Right: Lenz, 2020; Ought Light Years, 2020.
Your practice explores architecture and geometry, investigating opposing forms : rectilinear vs curvilinear, concave vs convex, mass vs void, what does this mean to you?
Lables-I do not think of.
What is the significance of the materials you choose to work with?
Materials- Are only for starting where you want to end.
Ought Steel Drawings, 2020.
What do you imagine for the future of the art community and world at large as we rebuild together?
Nothing changes the need to make art- History confirms…