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from Auction House Records.
Elephant Stool with Shade
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from AskART:
| An installation and conceptual artist whose materials include fiberglass, concrete, copper, wire, dirt, talcum and and motors with belts, David Ireland is from Oakland, California. He was born in Bellingham, Washington.
On the occasion of his Oakland Museum exhibition titled "The Art of David Ireland: The Way Things Are" , (November 22, 2003-March 14, 2004) Ireland said: "Ideally my work has a visual presence that makes it seem like part of a usual, everyday situation. . .. I like the feeling that nothing's been designed, that you can't tell where the art stops and starts." His goal is to "activate space" and create relationships among the works he chooses to occupy that space.
The exhibition included a video program featuring Ireland and his home, described by one writer as an "environmental-sculpture-in-progresss". In fact, one of the artworks for which he is best known is his own home, a run-down Victorian house when he purchased it, and located at 500 Capp Street. He worked on the remodeling for three years, and video-taped as artistic performance some of the activities including the repair of the sidewalk in front of the place. The house now features his sculptures made of "non-art" materials such as old brooms, bent wire, cement and wet paper.
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown said of Ireland's work, "David Ireland is one of this country's most influential conceptual artists, an artist of the enigmatic commonplace whose provocative, idiosyncratic art is like a Zen Koan. He makes us see that art is all around us and we need only to stop and look.''
Ireland earned a bachelor's degree in industrial design and print making from Oakland's California College of Arts and Crafts in 1953, and in the early 1970s, he studied plastics technology and print making at Laney College. In 1974, he received a master of fine arts degree in print making from the San Francisco Art Institute.
"He did not fully commit himself to art until he was in his early 40s, after traveling extensively around the world and working as an architectural draftsman, carpenter, designer, businessman and African safari guide. The Oakland Museum exhibition looks at how these early life experiences have been influential, resulting, for example, in the reference to elephants in his works, the claiming of architecture as art, and the open-ended sense of exploration that is the foundation for his work."
His work has been exhibited in over 40 solo exhibitions
Source:
The website of the Oakland Museum
http://www.museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_ireland.html
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