Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
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NEW LIMITED EDITION BY JIM ISERMANN
PUBLISHED BY CONTEMPORARY EDITIONS LOS ANGELES
All proceeds benefit Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Jim Isermann, Untitled, 2003, Vacuum formed plastic, 48 x 48 inches (four 17 x 17 inch panels), Edition of 50 in white; edition of 50 in silver
“Jim Isermann’s utopia is local, domestic, personal, and right now.” Dave Hickey
Southern California artist Jim Isermann is well known for liberating formal and conceptual parameters around art and design. His work explores the language of both worlds and finds the comfort zone between high art and functionality. Isermann has long been interested in, and his work centered around the process of production, from mechanization to craft such as needlepoint, weaving, and stained glass. The artist’s new limited edition, produced by Contemporary Editions Los Angeles to benefit the programs of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, fuses economy of form with personal ingenuity and flair.
Deceptively simple in its design, this four-part object looks stately and sophisticated but feels friendly. This two-fold quality is experienced often in his work. In this case, the colored plastic material is at once absorbent and reflective, and although the pieces themselves are lightweight, the work looks and feels substantial. When installed, four identically contoured, vacuum-formed plastic tiles combine to form one modular diamond shape, creating a minimalist structure doused in a sense of its own freedom.
This limited edition presents a rare opportunity to collect a work at a very reasonable price by this prominent California artist, who has been exhibiting in the U.S. and internationally since 1980, the year he received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Jim Isermann is represented by Richard Telles Gallery (Los Angeles), Feature Inc.(New York), and Corvi-Mora (London). His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including “Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism,” The Fourth International Biennial, Site, Santa Fe (2001), and “Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (1997), to name just three. The artist has had solo exhibitions at UCLA Hammer Museum (2002), Centre d’art Contemporain, Grenoble, France (1999), Santa Monica Museum of Art (1999), among many others. Recent commissioned public projects include permanent installations at The University of California, San Francisco (2003), and L.A. Eyeworks, Los Angeles (2002).
The production of this edition was organized by Tony Payne for Contemporary Editions Los Angeles, which is an entrepreneurial initiative inaugurated by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in May 1998 as part of the organization’s efforts to sustain its fiscal health.
Contemporary Editions Los Angeles includes editions and multiples by other well-known Los Angeles artists Kevin Appel, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Sam Durant, Katie Grinnan, Evan Holloway, Martin Kersels, Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Paul McCarthy, Jorge Pardo, Raymond Pettibon, James Welling, and Pae White.
For more information about our editions’ program and to check availability, please visit www.artleak.org or contact Julie Deamer at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions at 323.957.1777 ext. 17.