David Ireland (artist)
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David Kenneth Ireland was an American
artist
and co-founder of the Capp Street Project artist residency.
Born in Bellingham, Washington
, he studied Printmaking
and Industrial Arts
at California College of Arts and Crafts, prior to joining the Army in the early 1950s. After leaving the Army Ireland traveled Europe extensively, working as an illustrator, and eventually traveled to Africa to lead safaris. It was not until his 40s that Ireland decided to dedicate himself to work as a full-time artist. He returned to the United States and returned to school, this time at the San Francisco Art Institute
. Upon graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute
Ireland spent a year working in New York, before returning to settle in San Francisco.
Ireland is most well known for creating site-specific installation art
pieces; most notably, his former residence at 500 Capp St.
In 1999, Ireland collaborated with sound artist GX Jupitter-Larsen
remixing and re-recording tapes from the audio achieves of 500 Capp St. The outcome was released as a CD on Vinyl Communications.
United States
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artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and co-founder of the Capp Street Project artist residency.
Born in Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the twelfth-largest city in the state. Situated on Bellingham Bay, Bellingham is protected by Lummi Island, Portage Island, and the Lummi Peninsula, and opens onto the Strait of Georgia...
, he studied Printmaking
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...
and Industrial Arts
Industrial arts
Industrial Arts is an umbrella term originally conceived in the late 19th century to describe educational programs which featured fabrication of objects in wood and/or metal using a variety of hand, power, or machine tools...
at California College of Arts and Crafts, prior to joining the Army in the early 1950s. After leaving the Army Ireland traveled Europe extensively, working as an illustrator, and eventually traveled to Africa to lead safaris. It was not until his 40s that Ireland decided to dedicate himself to work as a full-time artist. He returned to the United States and returned to school, this time at the San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
. Upon graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
Ireland spent a year working in New York, before returning to settle in San Francisco.
Ireland is most well known for creating site-specific installation art
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
pieces; most notably, his former residence at 500 Capp St.
In 1999, Ireland collaborated with sound artist GX Jupitter-Larsen
GX Jupitter-Larsen
GX Jupitter-Larsen is an artist, based in Hollywood, California, who's been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s. Jupitter-Larsen has been involved in punk rock, mail art, cassette culture, the noise music scene, and zine culture...
remixing and re-recording tapes from the audio achieves of 500 Capp St. The outcome was released as a CD on Vinyl Communications.
External links
- Headlands Center for the Arts
- Capp Street Project artist residency, at CCA's Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Video Tour of David Ireland's 500 Capp St. project, from the UC Berkeley Bancroft Archives.
- Oral History of 500 Capp St., from UC Berkeley's Bancroft Archives.
- KQED Arts Spark Profile
- The Way Things Are: The Art of David Ireland Artist monograph, published by UC Berkeley Press
- The Way Things Are: The Art of David Ireland Exhibition page from the Oakland Museum of California, summarizing the 2004 retrospective exhibition of Ireland's work.
- Selected works by David Ireland in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
- Interview with David Ireland by Terri Cohn
- 500 Capp Street Foundation