Booth E07
Praz-Delavallade Gallery is proud to announce a solo presentation of renowned Los-Angeles artist Jim Isermann on its booth at Art Basel Miami Beach. A selection of works from the 1980′s, will be presented alongside new works made especially for the occasion.
Since 1980 Jim Iserman’s artistic output has chronicled the conflation of post-war industrial design and fine art through popular culture. Functional installations that reclaimed a utopian view of the future while revealing the pathos of that failed promise have maintained an unflagging belief in the beauty of utilitarian design. Through out the 1990′s, Iserman explored traditional handicraft technique to produce works that are unashamedly beautiful, a beauty that is integral to the limitations and specific characteristics of fabrication. In 1998, following a 15-year survey exhibition organized by David Pagel, Isermann began to use a computer to design manufactured elements. Realized installations and commissions have employed mass-produced thermal die-cut vinyl decals, plotter-cut mylar decals, ContraVision© ink jet printed vinyl and projects incorporating multiple vacuum-formed ABS plastic panels. Currently his practice is divided between producing labor-intensive studio work for gallery and museum exhibitions and designing and overseeing commissioned projects for public spaces that involve industrial manufacturing processes.
For Praz-Delavallade at Miami Basel Jim Isermann has produced a brand new, site-specific, vinyl decal work for the entire wall surface. A selection of recent and past work will be hung atop, and resonate with the decal work. For the last three years, in a strive to attempt to equate by hand both the sublime and the emptiness of optical abstraction, Jim Isermann has returned to meticulous, hard-edged painting. These new paintings have a direct relationship and build upon several sets of serial paintings from the 1980′s in which generic abstraction and stereotypic colorways were explored. These two bodies of work, separated by twenty years, will be exhibited together for the first time.
