Jim Isermann at Bloomberg SPACE

22 June to 10 September 2016

Solo exhibition Jim Isermann - Constituent Components at Bloomberg SPACE, London.

Constituent Components is an exhibition of six sculptures and one wall work that play out the possibilities of an isometric cube in order to create new forms. Applied to the walls as a graphic vinyl pattern and arranged across the gallery floor as double-stacked, modular cubes, these newly commissioned works explore Jim Isermann’s career-long conflation of industrial design, craft production and art. Performing a fragile balance between these modes of operation, the exhibition proposes a dialogue between high and low, hand and machine, analogue and digital creation...

Jim Isermann at MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires

17 October 2015 to 6 March 2016

Included in group exhibition Geometric Obsession. American School 1965-2015 at MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fifty years ago the curator William Seitz presented at the Museum of Modern Art of New York an exhibition of optical art entitled The Responsive Eye. With this proposal, he presented a panorama of contemporary pieces that globally brought together works by artists and groups from Italy, Argentina, the United States, England, and Poland among others. With the help of one of the most important experts of the period and of geometric art, gallery owner Denise René, the exhibition revealed perceptual investigations and retinal effects associated with pure form, color and line...

Jim Isermann in Desert Magazine

February 2015

Article by Kimberly Nichols Beyond Modernism with artist Jim Isermann in Desert Magazine.

Isermann's three-plus decades of work chronicle the conflation of post-war industrial design and fine art through popular culture alongside an unflagging belief in the beauty of utilitarian design and a fervent experimentation with material. Early furniture pieces and tableaus were envisioned as prototypes for mass production. Thermal dies were created for large-scale vinyl decals. The decals in turn led to vacuum formed styrene wall panels. Stained glass works and fabric wall paintings continued his exploration of pattern and repetition. Many of his site-specific installations, like the façade of the Los Angeles' MTA Customer Center, referenced the vernacular solution of transforming out-of-date architecture into a dialogue within the community. In the past 15 years he has been utilizing digital technology to design elements for commercial manufacture. Overall, his work has matured from didactic representations of the failure of modernism to the physical embodiment of pure design...