Thursday, March 8, 2018 500 Capp Street was proud to host notorious conductor and composer, John Kennedy and the Santa Clara University New Music Ensemble. Kennedy’s performance at The David Ireland House pays homage to one of David Ireland’s greatest influences, John Cage. John Cage’s diverse and varied musical output filled the rooms of the David…
K.R.M. MooneyThursday, March 1, 2018 Mooney’s work often inhabits a horizontal position, considering space and its inherited boundaries as an operative body. Their sculptural practice pursues abstraction and the agency of material bodies learned through the processes of jewelry and ornamentation. Using abstract forms that emerge through the interaction of various types of metals and…
Forrest Bess, Jason Dodge, Rodney Graham, Jo Hanson, Los Jaichackers, K.r.m. Mooney, Feminist Land Art Retreat, and Anicka YiFebruary 17 – June 9, 2018 View Gallery The 500 Capp Street Foundation is pleased to present, School of Chairs, the first group exhibition at The David Ireland House. The exhibition’s artists, through expanding and redefining their…
Thursday, December 21, 2017 The curtain opens with side A of the 1975 LP Solos Duets by Frank Wright, Bobby Few and Alan Silva. Frank Wright a key figure in the development of the Free Jazz movement had a uniquely expressionist saxophone style defined for being explosive, sensitive and most importantly, unpredictable. Wright collaborated, never…
November 18, 2017 – February 3, 2018 View Gallery The 500 Capp Street Foundation is proud to present Michael E. Smith, opening November 18, 2017. Detroit-born Michael E. Smith is the first Visiting Artist, since opening to the public in 2016, that The 500 Capp Street Foundation has invited to fully engage with David Ireland’s…
Phillip GreenliefFriday, October 13, 2017 The 500 Capp Street Foundation was proud to present Bellingham for David Ireland, a map score for improvising musicians created by Phillip Greenlief for The David Ireland House. Known for his explorations in sound and composition, Oakland-based musician Phillip Greenlief has been working with actual maps to create musical scores. With his most recent score, Bellingham for David Ireland,…