BELLOW | IN PALE LIGHT OF THE SHADOW | December 17, 2026 - January 30, 2027

500 Capp Street presents BELLOW, a solo exhibition by San Francisco-born artist Charles Goldman, in the Accordion Room at The David Ireland House in the Mission District. The exhibition is on view December 16, 2026 through January 30, 2027, with an opening reception on Saturday, December 19. It remains open through San Francisco Art Week and FOG Design+Art.

For Goldman, the show closes a circle that began more than 35 years ago. As an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz in the late 1980s, he assisted David Ireland on [the installation of David Ireland: A Decade Documented 1978-1988 at the Sesnon Gallery]. Ireland spent three decades turning his Capp Street home into a work of art built from ordinary materials and daily routine. Goldman now returns to that house with work of his own.

The exhibition presents recent work centered on BELLOW, a large sculpture built from wood, carpet, steel, ratchet straps and RE>CRETE, a recycled material of Goldman's own devising. Alongside it are a sculptural edition cast in cement, a limited edition book, and a sound piece Goldman made in collaboration with his sister, Jennifer Graves.

Goldman's practice spans sculpture, installation, photography, drawing, sound and performance, and is concerned with the cycles of daily life and standard units of measurement. RE>CRETE in particular draws a direct line from Ireland's process-based practice of turning ordinary materials such as dirt, concrete and wire into art; Goldman makes it from pulped newspaper and junk mail, shredded CDs and credit cards, electronic wire, dryer lint and packing foam.

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Studio AHEAD and Tyler Cross, from design duo Cross Lypka, present “In Pale Light of the Shadow” an exhibition at 500 Capp Street bringing together a small group of artists whose work deals in shadow and light.

When thinking about the history of the David Ireland House as living sculpture, studio, gallery, and archive, a space whose infrastructure blurs the line between art and function, we wanted to reconsider that most noticeable element of the conventional gallery: lighting. This exhibition eschews bright overhead lights, representing to us the clear-cut, the decisive, the chauvinistic last word. Instead, we are embracing shadow, ambiguity, mystery, intimacy, openendedness. The works presented here will cast shadows across the gallery space that are in dialogue with the work itself. In Pale Light of the Shadow will run December 17th 2026 to January 30th 2027.

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Untitled (RE>SIGN>) 2026 Wood, carpet, RE>CRETE>, paint, bio-resin, photo by Alan Wiener