500 Capp Street – The David Ireland House

The David Ireland House is open to the public for tours

The David Ireland House at 500 Capp Street presents exhibitions and educational programs celebrating Ireland’s artistic legacy and hosts collaborative events to strengthen San Francisco’s cultural community, bringing together artists, scholars, teachers, students and the public, as Ireland’s home did during his lifetime.

Below the lighthouse is the darkest part of night, work by artist duo Zakkubalan

Working in the intersection of film and photography, New York-based artist duo Zakkubalan, Neo S. Sora and Albert Tholen, present a multimedia exhibition of new and older work including a collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto at The David Ireland House at 500 Capp Street open now and running until February 19, 2022.

David Ireland’s Tribute to John Cage

Come see David Ireland’s A Variation on 79, Side to Side Passes of a Dumbball, Dedicated to the Memory of John Cage (1912-1992), 1993, installed as intended: unframed and on commissioned music stands and pine boxes. On view until February.

Deadline to our 2022 Performing Artist Residency has been extended to December 31!

We are pleased to share that the deadline to apply to our 10-week Performing Artist Residency in 2022 has been extended to December 31. A site visit is also encouraged to help the applicant envision their proposal. For any questions or to schedule a site visit email lian@500cappstreet.org.

We are delighted to announce our partnership with Minnesota Street Project for the 2022 Artist Residency

What We’re Up To

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Archive of the week!

A piece you may have not seen, this piece has been displayed in our archival offices at 500 Capp Street. Ireland’s hallmark has been an abstract, rough, textural, archeological surface and no pieces is this better displayed than in his cement paintings. What began as a series created after moving to NYC following his MFA at @sfaiofficial continued on through his work at his Oakland studio.

Here we see one of his many cement paintings overlaid with a torpedo-shaped wooden object reminiscent of his torpedos/potatoes/turds that you’d see displayed throughout the house while on one of our tours.

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We chat it up with our outgoing Curatorial and Programming Intern Georgia Brabec about her artistic background, what she learned during her time with us and what it was like to work with @zakkubalan.

We’ll miss Georgia here at The David Ireland House as she goes on to finish her last semester of university and searchs for new internship opportunities. Good luck to her and everything she achieves!
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Noticed a new work installed in the parlor room lately? You have a rare opportunity to see David Ireland's "A Variation on 79, Side to Side passes of a dumbball, Dedicated to the Memory of John Cage (1912-1992)" re-mounted by Tim Berry and Tom Cvikota for exhibition.

The piece was created by David Ireland in 1993 as a dedication to John Cage after his passing. Highlighting Ireland's experimental and conceptual methods, they are made by different methods of mark-making with each turn of the page. One process involves rolling an inked musket bullet "dumbball" over the surface of a copper plate 79 times. 79 passes-one for each year of Cage's life. Berry (Teaberry Press) and Cvikota (C. Editions) worked with Ireland to print and public the works back in 1993. This is an exciting opportunity to view the works mounted in their original intended form: mounted on music stands and able to be touched where the oil from peoples' hands could absorb into the paper.

It can be viewed during regular visiting hours. Stay tuned of our public programming as we turn the pages each time to invite experimental sound artists so we can fully experience the complete suite!
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We sit down with Operation’s Manager @alexehma to chat about her role at The David Ireland House, working with @zakkubalan and what she’s excited for in the coming year
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The David Ireland House is excited to announce we're partnering with the Minnesota Street Project for the 2022 Artist Residency Program. Focusing on Bay Area performing arts, resident artist(s) can additionally showcase their concepts at Minnesota Street Project in Spring 2022.

We're also announcing the jurors for the residency program!

María Elena González
Internationally renowned scuptor, educator, and current Chair of the Sculpture Department at San Francisco Art Institute.

Aay Preston-Myint
Founder of artist partnership No Coast, co-director of Chicago Art Book Fair, DJ and organizer of Chances Dances, and Program Manager at Headlands Center for the Arts.

Julie Phelps
Artistic & Executive Director at CounterPulse, internationally touring performer and social practice artist.

As we announced on our story yesterday, the deadline has been extended until December 31st for the ten-week residency which begins February and ends in May 2022. The final project can be a performance work, exhibition, public intervention with the house/surrounding neighborhood or a presentation of research through a talk or symposium. We encourage a public education component in collaboration with our education team as well.

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The House has learned that Alvin Lucier passed December 1st from a fall in his Connecticut home. He was 90

Lucier, a highly regarded experimental composer, is best known for his 1969 work I Am Sitting in a Room. The work helped inspire @zakkubalan works for this past exhibition Under the Lighthouse is the Darkest Part of Night, who’s namesake work can be viewed in the accordion room

Albert Tholen, half of Zakkubalan, stated “The work we were doing with feedback, especially the feedback shots in the Accordion Room video where we created the loop between camera and projector, was inspired in part by Lucier's I Am Sitting in a Room. The way that the repeated recording/playing back of the audio in Lucier's piece drew out the natural resonances and sonic characteristics of that room seemed like a good analog for how we were using the camera and projector to explore the luminescent properties of the 2nd floor walls.”
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David Ireland

1930 – 2009

American artist David Ireland is admired internationally for a diverse body of work concerned with the beauty inherent in everyday things and the making of art as a part of daily life.

The David Ireland House

David Ireland’s residence at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco’s Mission District is widely considered the centerpiece of his prolific career.