Annetta Kapon makes sculptures, videos, drawings, paintings and installations, their common denominator being the artist's interest in the shifting border between utilitarian and aesthetic value, craft and fine art, flatness and dimensionality. Large Wood, from 2000, is a three-dimensional collage formed from various wooden tabletop vessels which are fit together almost like a jigsaw puzzle and displayed on the wall like a painting. Floor Show 1 and Floor Show 2 (1999) consist of artificial "slices" of trees (in actuality fabricated by the artist herself out of plywood, bark, and oak parquet flooring) that evoke the use of tree-trunk cross sections that is common to many regional craft industries. In these works, Kapon uses natural materials to simulate nature.

In other sculptures she does the reverse, using natural materials to imitate synthetic substances. Pieces such as Pretext (2000), Guise (2000) and Method/Madness (2000) are refabrications in basswood of Styrofoam packing materials. When the latter's familiar shapes — negative forms whose purpose is to "hold" space — are taken out of context, they lose their functional associations and become abstract, positive forms that are unrecognizable and open to multiple interpretations. Kapon received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1992 and a BFA from Otis/Parsons in 1985. She is a faculty member in the department of art at Otis School of Art and Design.