JIM ISERMANN Born 1955, Kenosha, WI Lives Palm Springs, CA Education 1977 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI; B.F.A. 1980 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA; M.F.A. One Person Exhibitions 1996 "Isermann/Pardo," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA "Cube Weave,? Feature, New York, NY 1995 "Weaves," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm, Sweden 1991 "Handiwork," Feature, NY NY "Handiwork," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles CA "Highlights" Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles CA 1992 Feature, NY NY Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica CA 1991 "Shag Paintings and Sculpture," Feature, NY NY 1989 "Shag Ptgs," Feature, NY NY "Shag Ptgs," Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1988 "Matching Chairs and Paintings," Feature, Chicago IL Josh Baer Gallery, NY NY Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles CA 1986 "Flowers," Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles CA "Nu-Flowers," Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego CA 1985 "Starburst," Onyx Cafe, Los Angeles CA Installation, West Beach Cafe, Venice CA 1984 "Suburban," Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1982 "Patio Tempo," Artist's Space, NY NY "Motel Modern," The Inn of Tomorrow, Anaheim CA and Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles CA 1981 "Modern Tempo," Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles CA Selected Group Exhibitions 1996 "How will we behave?," Robert Prime, London "Some Grids," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Curated by Lynn Zeievansky and Carol Eliel "Ab Fab," Feature, New York "Mod Squad," Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, CA; Curated by Michael Darling 1995 "Crystal Blue Persuasion" Feature, New York "Smells Like Vinyl," Roger Merians Gallery, New York "The Moderns," Feature, New York; Curated by Tony Payne "Conceptual Textiles," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboyean, WI "Flowers" Boritzer/Gray/Hamano' Santa Monica, CA; Curated by Irit Krieger "I Gaze a Gazely Stare," Feature, New York NY ?Felicity" Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Phyllis Green "Gay Men Love Chairs" Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Curated by: Carey S. Leibowitz ?Very,? (with Steven Criqui and Lily van der Stokker), Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles "Division of Labor: Woman's Work in Contemporary Art" The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (catalogue). Traveled to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1994 "Guys Who Sew," Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara; curated by Elizabeth Brown and Fran Segal (catalogue) "Surface de Reparation," FRAC Bourgogue, Dijon France; curated by Eric Troncy (Catalogue) "LAX 94,? Los Angeles Municipa1 Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA "Forging Ahead," State University of Buffalo, Fine Arts Gallery, Buffalo NY; curated by Al Harris Three Person Exhibition (with Tom Friedman and Jennifer Pastor), Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles CA "Difficult Conceptualists," The Brewery, Los Angeies CA; curated by Paul Tzanetopoulos Angeles CA, "Sour Ball," Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles CA 1993 "Project Unite," Unite d'Habitation, Firminy, France; curated by Yves Aupetitaillot and Robert Fleck (catalogue) ?Technicolor,: The Future That Never Was, Christopher Grimes Gallery; Santa Monica, CA 1992 "Studio to Station: Public Art on the Metro Blue Line? FHP Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach CA "Primi Pensieri," Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica CA Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica CA "The Rosamund Felsen Clinic and Recovery Center," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles CA; curated by Ralph Rugoff 1991 "Office Party,? Feature, NY NY "The Legacy of Hank Herron," Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas TX "Presenting Rearwards," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles 1990 "Material Conceits" Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte NC; curated by Mark Leach (brochure) "Geometric Abstraction," Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles CA "Representation-Non-Representation," Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa; curated by Stephen Berens (catalogue) "Abstract Painting: Three Sensibilities," Siegfried Gallery, Ohio University School of Art, Athens OH; curated by Kimberly Burliegh 1989 "Temporary Installations 89,? Manhattan Beach Public Arts Program, Children's Section, Public Library, Manhattan Beach CA 1988 "Walk Out to Winter," Bess Cutler Gallery, NY NY; curated by Christian Leigh "LA CA Boys," Feature, Chicago IL "Recent Work from Los Angeles,? Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH; curated by Elizabeth Shepard "After Abstract," Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA (catalogue: essay by Stephen Nowlin) "The Home Show," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara CA (catalogue: essay by Betty Klausner) 1987 "Nature," Feature, Chicago IL "Avant-Garde in the 80's," (with Ilene Segalove), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA "A Different Corner," US Pavilion, I Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Museo de Arte Moderna, Cuence, Ecuador; curated by Christian Leigh (catalogue: essay, "Tomorrow Never Knows: Jim Isermann's Flowers," by Dennis Cooper) "CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s)," The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago IL; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach CA; curated by Suzanne Ghez (catalogue) "(of Ever-Ever Land i speak)," Stux Gallery, NY NY; curated by Christian Leigh "L.A. Hot & Cool,? List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA curated by Dana Friis-Hansen (catalogue: essay by Dana Friis-Hansen) 1986 "Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch...," Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles "A Southern California Collection,? Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles CA "California Chairs," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO "TV Generations,? LACE, Los Angeles CA; curated by John Baldessari and Bruce Yonemoto (catalogue: essays by John Baldessari and Bruce Yonemoto) "Greenberg's Dilemma," Loughelton Gallery, NY NY 1985 Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles CA "Fashion," LAICA, Los Angeles CA "Future Furniture," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach CA (catalogue: essay by Thomas Heller) 1984 "L.A. Apocalypse," Whiteley Gallery, Los Angeles CA "Furniture, Furnishings: Subject, Object,? Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI "Contextual Furnishings: Isermann, McMakin, Vaughn," Mandeville Art Center, University of California, San Diego CA "Spys and Boyfriends," Vickman's Restaurant, Los Angeles CA 1983 Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles CA "Cultural Excavations: Recent and Distant," Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles CA; curated by Robert Pincus (catalogue: essay by Robert Pincus) "Spy-Tiki-Modern," Fun Gallery West, San Francisco CA (installation with Jeffery Vallence and Mark Kroening) 1981 "Southern California Artists," LAICA, Los Angeles CA; curated by Barbara Haskell "Some Painters," Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles CA "Fictive Victims," Hallwalls, Buffalo NY; curated by Robert Longo "The Fix-It-Up Show," LACE, Los Angeles CA Work altered by Jeffery Vallence and Michael Uhlenkott 1980 "Furnishings by Artists," Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles CA "The Young/The Restless," Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles CA PROJECTS 1993 Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, Metro Blue Line, Fifth Street Station, Long Beach CA (permanent installation) commissioned 1993, completed 1995 "L'Endroit Ideal (Ideal Place)," edited by Eric Troncy, published by L'lie du Roy, Centre d'Art et Jardin, Val de Reuil, France (artist's project, pages 80-81) 1992 Calendar commissioned by Fuji Oil, Osaka, Japan 1991 Calendar commissioned by Fuji Oil, Osaka, Japan Silkscreen print edition published by Turner and Byrne Gallery, Dallas TX Book cover, "Hand Over Heart," writings by David Trinidad 1990 Calendar commissioned by Fuji Oil, Osaka, Japan Magazine cover, "Shiny," NY NY "T.V. Lounge," American Museum of Moving Image, Astoria NY Catalogue cover, "L.A. Hot & Cool," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA "T.V. Room," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA, video screening room (destroyed 1994) Book cover, "Monday, Monday," writings by David Trinidad Art Direction and sets for Lin Hixon's "Hey John, Did You Take the El Camino Far?," as part of LACE'S series "Art of the Spectacle," Video sets for MTVs "The Cutting Edge," for the Bangles and the Three O'clock Selected Bibliography 1995 Pagel, David, "Weaves That Weave A Magic Spell," Los Angeles Times, September 22, page F20 Atkins, Robert, "Lesbian & Gay Wahtzis," The Village Voice, June 20, pages 71-72 Knight, Christopher, "Women's Work Is Never Done at MOCA, " Los Angeles Times, October 1, Calendar, page 62 1994 Auerbach, Lisa Anne, review, Art Forum May, page 107 (repro) Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review," The New York Times, January 14, page C29 Duncan, Michael, review. Art in America, October, page 143 (reproduction) Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, "He Will Keep You in Stitches," Los Angeles Times, March 20, page 87 & 90 (reproduction) Greene, David A. "Critics Choice," Los Angeles Reader, September 29, page 14 Greene, David A., "Technicolor Hero," Los Angeles Reader, March 18, page 21 (reproduction) Kandel, Susan, Art reviews, "Isermann: Mutations of Art & Design, Los Angeles Times, March 25, page F20 Pagel, David, "Weavings That Weave a Magical Spell," Los Angeles Times, September 22, page F20 Knight, Christopher, "Suburban Bauhaus," Art Issues. May/June, pages 29-31 (cover) Levin, Kirn, "Art in Brief," The Village Voice, February 8, page 72 Myers, Terry, review, The New Art Examiner May, page 47 Myers, Terry, "Painting Camp," Flash Art, November- December pages 73-76 (reproduction) Rugoff, Ralph, "Fun with Formalism" LA Weekly, April 22-28, page 33 (reproduction) 1993 Decter, Joshua and Zahm, Olivier, "Back to Babel," Art forum, November, pages 91-92, 131, 138 (reproduction) Duncan, Michael, review (Technicolor), frieze, November/December, page 62 Jouannais, Jean-Yves, review (Unite), art press, July/August, pages 80-81 (reproduction) Pagel, David, review (Technicolor), The Los Angeles Times, April 15 "News of the Print World," Print Collector's Newsletter, September/October, page 143 Rattenbury, Kester, "Bringing New Life to LeCorbusier's Lost City," Blueprint, July/August Roberts, James, "Down With the People," frieze, September/October, pages 26-27 (reproduction) Scarborough, James, review (Technicolor), art press, July/August, page 89 (reproduction) Troncy, Eric, "Spotlight: Project Unite," FlashArt, October, page 117 (reproduction) Troncy, Eric, "Naakt en Kneedbaar," Metropolis M, number 3, pages 33-37 (reproduction) 1992 Pagel, David, "Jim Isermann's Windows on the Imagination,"The Los Angeles Times, September 24, page F4 (reproduction) Schjeldahl, Peter, "Trend: Sweetness and Light," The Village Voice, April 14, page 105 (reproduction) Stevens, Mark, "Design Invitational," Vanity Fair, December page 200 (reproduction) 1991 Mahoney, Robert, "New York in Review," Arts, April, page 105 Moody, Tom, review, Art Paper, July/August, pages 65f£ Moody, Tom, "What You See is What You Saw," Dallas Observer, May 9, page 19 (reproduction) Myers, Terry R., review, LAPIZ, March, page 77 (reproduction) Tyson, Janet, "Modern Muscle," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 26, section E, page 10 Anderson, Michael, review, Art Issues, February, page 24 (reproduction) Decter, Joshua, "New York in Review," Arts, February, page 95 (reproduction) Himmel, Eric, and others, editors, New Art, Harry N. Abrams,Inc., NY NY, pages 92-93 (reproduction) Johnson, Ken, review, Art in America, March, page 201 (reproduction) Seiwyn, Marc, review, Flash Art, January/February, page 136 (reproduction) 1989 Knight, Christopher, "Shags Show Vulgar Kind of Beauty," The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 13, page 34 (reproduction) 1988 Butler, Brian, "Irony Masked as Emulation,? Artweek, July 9, page 6 (reproduction) Knight, Christopher, "Jim Isermann's Latest is Richly Mixed-Up, ? The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, June 24 (reproduction) Rugoff, Ralph, "Pop Goes the Easel," LA Style, November, pages 135-138 (reproduction) Weinstein, Mathew A., review, Artforum, October, page 150 (reproduction) 1987 Cooper, Dennis, review, Art in America, May page 191 (repro) Cotter, Holland, "Eight Artists Interviewed," Art in America, May, pages 166-167, 199 (reproduction) Drohojowska, Hunter, "Artists Critics Are Watching, "ARTnews, May, page 80 (reproduction) Knight, Christopher, "The Return of Flower Power," The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, January 26 (reproduction) Pincus, Robert, "Flower Art Digs Into 60's," San Diego Union, December 18 Gardner, Colin, review, L.A. Reader, October 26 pincus, Robert, review, Artforum, October (reproduction) Pincus, Robert, review, Art in America, March, page 164 (reproduction) Cooper, Dennis, "Jim Isermann's Neo-Optimism, " L.A. Weekly, November 12-18, page 22ff (reproduction) Larsen, Susan C., review, Artforum, April (reproduction) AWARDS 1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist's Fellowship, Painting 1986 Art Matters, Inc., NY NY, Fellowship 1984 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist's Fellowship,Sculpture