Howard Fried
Derelicts
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
360 Kansas Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
September 8 – November 19, 2016

Now on view at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Derelicts is an exhibition of work by Howard Fried, featuring a new architectural installation in Fried’s series Derelict (1974-1983). This new work, Derelict V (2016), is presented alongside components and materials from the four previous works in the series, in which Fried transforms the same simple tableau—a coffee cup on a formica table—with dramatic shifts of scale and perspective. Derelict V references details of the original work in the series, installed at San Jose State University’s art gallery in 1974, with a number of modifications. The exhibition also includes two early videos by Fried: Condom (1975) and Intraction (1973).
 

Installation view, Derelicts, Howard Fried at the Wattis Institute, San Francisco, 2016. Photograph by John White. Courtesy of the artist, The Box, and the Wattis Institute.

Howard Fried, Derelict III, 1977. Installation view, SFMOMA, San Francisco. Courtesy of the artist, The Box, and the Wattis Institute.

Howard Fried. Condom [video still], 1975. Courtesy of the artist, The Box, and the Wattis Institute.

Howard Fried, Condom [schematic], 1975. Courtesy of the artist, The Box, and the Wattis Institute.

Howard Fried, Intraction, 1977. Installation view, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco. Courtesy of the artist, The Box, and the Wattis Institute.