Artist David Ireland 'UNTITLED : D.I.' extended through 08 April 2016 at the Telegraph Hill Gallery

SAN FRANCISCO - March 23, 2016 - PRLog -- The Telegraph Hill Gallery extends the exhibition of San Francisco Bay Area artist David Ireland (1930-2009) through 08 April 2016. 'UNTITLED : D.I.' will feature Ireland's rarely seen works on paper dating from the 70s and 90s from the collection of his sister.

Ireland is one of the leading figures in conceptual art and he has blurred the line between life and art. He believed that art should take a second look at things that the world is accustomed to taking for granted and consequently ordinary and discarded materials became his primary tools. Working completely in the realm of personal inquiry he created art by experimentation and improvisation.  He regarded the process an integral part of his work and as art itself and valued the process as much as the finished work.

The show features paintings and print works. It includes an enamel paint series of pale blue and black meandering lines and the artist's initials subsumed in the composition. There is a suite of minimalist print works showing sinuous inked strings of varying lengths and colors. Among the landscape works are monotypes in reddish and grey hues, a heavily inked black piece that was repeatedly crumpled, inked, and put through the press twenty or more times, and a vibrant yellow plaster work on spiral sheet. Compositions in grey and the artist's initials using the plate tone and imperfections of the found plates are also on view among others.

Ireland was born in Bellingham, Washington in 1930. He attended Western Washington State University and received his BFA in Industrial Design and Printmaking from the California College of Arts and Crafts. He studied plastics technology and printmaking at Laney College in Oakland and earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Ireland's work has been exhibited in major museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Oakland Museum of California. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, among others.

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