Juan Capistran

The Breaks 2002 101

The Breaks reflects Capistran’s interests in sampling and fusing different cultural, social, and historical sources. Growing up in an African-American community in Los Angeles, Capistran has long been influenced by hip-hop culture. The...

White Minority 2005 101

White Minority, is typical of Capistran’s sampling of high art genres and living subcultures in which the artist subsumes an object’s high art pedigree within a vernacular art form. Here, Capistran humorously remixes the form and style...

Paper Tigers...from a whisper to a scream 2012 101

Juan Capistran employs strategies of conceptualism, appropriation, photography, sculpture, and painting to address socio-political issues. Through multidisciplinary projects that question notions of class, identity, power, and revolution, he investigates the rejection, assimilation, and mutation that result from the collisions within or between systems of ideology.