Lot 13
Jim Isermann
Untitled
2000
silkscreen on paper
value $1,800-$2,000
34 3/8 x 34"
courtesy of the Artist and
Richard Telles Fine Art

“A number of artists today are directly engaging with contemporary design, and [southern-California-based] Jim Isermann has long been at the forefront of these concerns. Since receiving his MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1980, Isermann’s work has traced the conflation of postwar industrial design and fine art in popular culture through wall-hangings, hand-woven rugs, fabric-covered sculptural cubes, and vinyl-patterned murals. Isermann has never been ashamed to embrace the possibility of utopia in all its aesthetic and functional forms, and indeed his works are as likely to make reference to stained glass, patchwork quilts and latch-hook shag rugs as they are to Minimalist sculpture and hard-edged painting.” (from calfund.org) A former member of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions’ staff and board, Isermann is represented by Richard Telles Fine Art in Los Angeles.