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500 Capp Street, the David Ireland House
September 23 - October 31, 2016Info
- www.500cappstreet.org
- 415-986-1571
The Echo, installation view in the Accordion Shop, 2016, photo: Jason Kalogiros
500 Capp Street, the David Ireland House, is an historical home museum and archive of the late Bay Area conceptual artist David Ireland. It features 3-4 exhibitions per year highlighting a rotating selection from the estate, comprised of over 2000 objects as well as programmed music, lecture and art events. The House is Ireland's most industrious and seminal work; a site-specific sculpture that embodies his art + life sensibilities and minimal aesthetics. Tours are held Wednesday through Saturday, 11am, 2pm and 4pm. 500 Capp Street’s tours are led by trained guides from the Bay Area’s community of practicing young artists, art students, and recent graduates whose diverse practices engage and give voice to Ireland’s work. They provide visitors with a meaningful tour experience of the home by sharing its history and connecting it to today’s art landscape. The Echo features new sculptures, photographs, and works on paper on view alongside the home’s most iconic permanent pieces and architectural features. A number of Ireland’s “Skellig Series” Painted Photographs from 1994 form the centerpiece of presentation, and will be showcased in the home’s Accordion Shop space. This group of altered photographs, first exhibited at the Ansel Adams Center for Photography in San Francisco, resulted from the artist’s travels in Skellig Michael, a remote island off the southwest coast of Ireland. Co-organized by the foundation’s curator and head of programs Diego Villalobos and curator Bob Linder, the exhibition takes its title from a notion of Ireland’s interest in history and memory, and the slippage—or the echo—that occurs when a concrete place or moment is imagined and materialized as an object in his art process. It also highlights how Ireland’s experiences as a world traveler influenced his relationship to place.