David Ireland

Box of Angels, 1996, cast plaster figures, glass, and wood vitrine


David Ireland in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Dumb Ball, 1989. Concrete. Each: 4 inches diameter.


David Ireland, Angel-Go-Round, 1996, installation view from exhibition at Oakland Museum of California, 2003-04. Fiberglass and cast concrete figures, motor, and nyon belting. 22 x 25 feet diameter


Good Hope, 1990-1991, concrete, wire, copper, broom, painted wooden stool, 24 x 76.

David Ireland
"You can’t make art by making art" has been a guiding principle in the work of David Ireland, one of California's most important and critically acclaimed artists working in the challenging arena of conceptual and installation art. "Ideally my work has a visual presence that makes it seem like part of a usual, everyday situation," he says. "I like the feeling that nothing's been designed, that you can't tell where the art stops and starts."
An exhibition at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh