David Ireland - Pay What You Can @ 500 Capp St. in San Francisco’s Mission District

Originally posted on 2016.3.21.

I really loved this show!

1ST FLOOR

STAIRS

Stairs - the view from the second floor

Red cabinet

A ROOM

The wire sculptures were spread everywhere. 

It was very fun to find them and took photos of them.

The desk - books and stamp

The mint color chair

A flapper on the wall was very unexpected

The docent said they found this from his garage - 

she said it is not sure it is done or in progress.

WIRE SCULPTURES ON THE WALL

Wire sculpture &

The tiny sculpture on the wall

The reflections of the wall are even artistic

OTHER ARTISTS

Alfred Fitzgerald

The portrait of Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp and a little sculpture under the shelf

Joseph Beuys & more dumb balls - I heard from a docent that dumb balls are named like that because he made it without thinking; the balls were made by throwing in both hands until it hardens. According to the docent, it took about 12-24 hours to get hardened? Anyways, that is intense! Conceptually and physically.

A doodle on the wall - probably from the previous tentant of the house or not as a docent said David Ireland tried to keep the marks form the people lived there.

White and blue - I don't know what they are - maybe clays?

The concrete book end

The closet

The coner - stained beautifully

One of his later pieces - A docent said David Ireland took this piece as a painting and he used the paint box contained the yellow paint he painted on the box.

The window view from the house he used to live

Yellow celling with stains - beautiful

The aisle

LIVING ROOM

A tooth, right?

The fire place

A docent told that this was actually working - though I don't exactly remember how it worked - the bottles contained certain gases and when he put the fire on the tip of the bottles and they bounced violently. The docent said David Ireland did it just to scare some critics who visited him.

Visitors' book?

I would want to get one of his standing lamps

Some powder in jars in the Coca Cola box

BEDROOM

The bed and horns in his bedroom

Horns must symbolize his ambition - my interpretation

This little small detail - I admire the curators and artists who worked for this show!

There was this sticker on the wall of his bedroom

D I - David Ireland

BALCONY NEXT TO BEDROOM

Sit!

Tape recorder & Dumb ball! Tape recorder was playing a conversation. Too bad I couldn't really catch what was going on in that conversation.

Broom Collection with Boom

Broom Collection with Boom - A docent said David Ireland used the brooms from the former tenant who was a hoarder.

DOWNSTAIRS - KITCHEN

At the kitchen - he had a lot of animal bones because he went to Kenya for the military service? Not sure. I think I heard he served for pretty long time in the military. I need some research on him.

The concrete icecream - humor.

It is funny that the plastic globe is squeezed behind the bone

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I paid $10 for this exhibition. I kinda wished I had paid more, but at the same time I thought about how smart the curators to make audience feel they want to pay more.