“Delving means touching too deeply. Pressing your hand instead of using that lovely light flickering touch you just showed me. It sometimes happens unintentionally, when dream-givers become too interested in what they are touching. When they start to like it too much.” -Lois Lowry, Gossamer, 20061 There is a terrible heaviness of life in all…
Almost tripping, I read the plaque on the sidewalk outside of The David Ireland House, “Art lets us make observations of things that were always there.”1 Walking up and down Twentieth Street a few months before moving to the Bay Area, I was visiting Oakland to help install the second leg of Basic Essentials, an…
David Ireland is not often considered a colorist. In his work, Ireland used muted subdued tones meant to play with light, and sometimes would add a vibrant pop of red or blue. One such color, Battleship grey, coats the house’s exterior façade and is so innocuous that passersby could miss the structure nestled on the…
The Accordion Room at The David Ireland House is a working hybrid. It preserves the past in marks and evidence of prior inhabitants, while also making space for new projects, installations, and perspectives. I’m dreaming of a space like this room as I have been living under quarantine as a result of Covid-19. I’ve learned…
Reflections on the exhibition “There is no such thing as a perfect circle” by Felipe Dulzaides “Draw a line everyday,” exclaimed 500 Capp Street Foundation board member Jane Reed. She brought this to our attention as an exercise of creativity in our artistic practice during recent shelter in place orders due to COVID-19. A simple…
Saturday, March 7, 2020 12-5pm The House opens with newly installed David Ireland works from the late 70s and early 80s, including his newly restored copper window. There is no such thing as a perfect circle Featuring works by Cuban-born artist Filipe DulzaidesMarch 7-June 27, 2020 Special performance by Jasmine Perfume, 1pm As a tribute to Dulzaides,…