500 Capp Street Foundation presents Another Lamp Show, a fundraiser in support of the historic David Ireland House in San Francisco's Mission District. 

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Co-organized with artist and union electrician Rico Duenas, the fundraiser invites more than 100 artists, including Chelsea Ryoko Wong, StudioAhead, Sahar Khoury, Mike Arcega, Roman de Salvo, Dana Hemenway, and David Horvitz, to reinterpret the lamp as Ireland himself once did: as a vehicle for sculptural invention. Through salvaged materials, experimentation, and playful humor, these artists have made one-of-a-kind functioning lamps that will be for sale in person at 500 Capp Street and online during the fundraiser. Throughout his home at 500 Capp Street, Ireland's idiosyncratic lamps set the tone for the space. In the parlor rooms, Ireland replaced an upstairs chandelier with a suspended light fixture composed of wire and blowtorches, which when lit creates a precarious and entrancing "Fire Drawing" that reflects off the home's high-gloss surfaces. Other oddly utilitarian lamps made by Ireland, often of concrete and copper piping, are functional pieces of art that continue to illuminate the exhibitions on display today. 

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Tickets: $10