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2/11/2011

Ann Hamilton - David Ireland

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to present paired exhibitions by two artists who have been friends and collaborators. Ann Hamilton and David Ireland (1930–2009) each restored spaces in the Headlands Center for the Arts in the 1970's and collaborated on an exhibition in 1992 at the Walker Art Center. Both artists explored the beauty of activities and materials characterized by simplicity and repetition.

In 1994 Hamilton made a collaborative work with Ireland for the Fabric Workshop, a tin box containing two spheres: one a ball of wound horsehair made by her, one, a dumbball, Ireland's signature object of concrete set up by passing a clump of cement back and forth for hours.

The exhibition is both an opportunity to see new work by Hamilton and a series of never-exhibited works by Ireland, painting-like flat works on paper, cloth and screens which he made from dirt, cement and pigment in the 70's.

To complement the hand-made works by Ireland, Hamilton has chosen to show clapclap, a video projection produced at the Pulitzer Foundation, along with papier-mache hands.

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David Ireland - Artworks from 1974-1975

Artworks from 1974-1975 from the 500 Capp Street Foundation, Selected by Jock Reynolds.

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to present an exhibition of works by the renowned San Francisco artist David Ireland (1930-2009).

In the early 1970's, Ireland produced a number of flat works using cement, dirt and non-art-conventional materials using resin or other binder media. These visceral planes share qualities of painting, architecture and sculpture and are easily perceived as found remnants. Ireland's maxim, "You can't make art by making art" is exemplified here in the way the experience and discovery of the material is predominant, triumphing over the willful creation of the piece.

A group of these works from Ireland's studio will be presented for the first time in this exhibition.

Around the time of these works, Ireland began the historic transformation of the Victorian house at 500 Capp Street. Ireland's process of restoration (cleaning with brooms, stripping off old wallpaper, lacquering floors) became his hybrid equivalent to sculpture, performance and painting practice.

"Art lets us make observations of things that were always there." D. Ireland 1978

His metamorphosis of the house bridged art and everyday activities and ultimately 500 Capp became a living sculpture. After the artist's death it continues as the 500 Capp Street Foundation.

Ireland's work is now on exhibit in the Los Angeles MOCA exhibition, Under the Big Black Sun, until February 2012. Gallery Paule Anglim has mounted five solo Ireland exhibitions over the past twenty years, and featured his work in a series of exhibitions Solid Concept (I-IV), 1989-2003.

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Ann Hamilton - Recent Works

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to present recent works by Ann Hamilton.

Hamilton is celebrated for her large mixed media environments where architectural space is transformed through poetic evocations of the passage of time. Addressing history, community and the power of site animated by human activity, Hamilton works with the body's primary creative movements, focusing on hands and mouths as transmitters of signs and sounds. Her work describes essential human activities and communication.

Hamilton has worked parallel to and in collaboration with David Ireland at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Walker Art Center and the Mattress Factory. To complement Ireland's partner exhibition, she has chosen to show a new video work, Clapping Hands, produced with the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. The image projects onto two walls an oversized figure with elongated arms and papier maché hands sweeping across space in a clapping gesture. The artist will exhibit the paper hands, as well as a hypnotic single-channel video work with a hand repeating a circular motion.

Hamilton has been the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship (1993) and represented the United States at the 48th Venice Biennale (1998). She has presented major sculptural installations at La Maison Rouge in Paris, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, MASS MoCA, The Musee d'Art Contemporain in Lyon, The Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands, MoMA in NY, MOCA Los Angeles, The Chicago Art Institute and the DIA Center for the Arts.

Image: David Ireland, Table objects, left to right: Untitled (Africa/ear shape wire with cement base), n.d., 34.5" x 18.5" x 8" Untitled (cement painting), n.d., 41.25" x 36". Untitled (metal colander bowl with 7 dumbballs), n.d., 6" height x 13.75" diameter

Opening November 3, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Gallery Paule Anglim
14 Geary St. San Francisco
Hours: Tuesday through Friday: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM. Saturday: 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Admission free

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