Jim Isermann
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1955
Lives in Palm Springs, California
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1977 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI; BFA
1980 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA; MFA
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- Solo Exhibitions
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2021
"Jim Isermann. Hypercube", Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
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2020
"Jim Isermann. Copy. Pattern. Repeat.", Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center, Palm Springs
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2019
"My Show On Your Arm". Open Arms, Riverside
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2017
“Jim Isermann Sculptures”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
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2016
"Jim Isermann. Constituent Components", Physical Information. Bloomberg SPACE, London
"Jim Isermann @ Placewares: Patterns & Products" Placewares, Gualala, California -
2014
Studio Blomster, Guerneville, CA
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Mary Boone Gallery, New York -
2013
Corvi-Mora, London
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2012
“Reunion”, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
The Workshop Residence, San Francisco, CA -
2011
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Corvi-Mora, London
“Paperworks”, St. Austell, UK -
2010
Praz-Dellavallade, Paris
Art Kabinett, Praz-Delavallade, Art Basel Miami Beach
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2009
“Plug In”, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles -
2008
Corvi-Mora, London
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2007
“Jim Isermann (Chairs & Paintings, 1987)”, Praz-Dellavallade, Paris
“Vinyl Smash Up 1999-2007”, Deitch Projects, New York -
2006
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles -
2005
Deitch Projects, New York
Corvi-Mora, London
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago -
2002
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
“Hammer Projects”, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Corvi-Mora, London -
2001
Feature Inc, New York
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles -
2000
“Logic Rules”, The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles -
1999
Camden Arts Centre, London
“Vega”, Le Magasin - Centre d'art Contemporain, Grenoble -
1998-99
“Fifteen: Jim Isermann Survey”, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Diverse-Works Artspace, Houston; The University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas; Santa Monica Museum of Art, California; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (curated by David Pagel) (cat)
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1998
“Herringbone & Houndstooth”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
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1997
Robert Prime, London
Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Project Space, Chicago Fine Arts Club, Chicago -
1996
Isermann/Pardo”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
“CubeWeave”, Feature, New York -
1995
“Weaves”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm -
1994
“Handiwork”, Feature, New York
“Handiwork”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
“Highlights”, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles -
1992
Feature, New York
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica -
1991
“Shag Paintings and Sculpture”, Feature, New York
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1989
“Shag Ptgs”, Feature, New York
“Shag Ptgs”, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles -
1988
“Matching Chairs and Paintings”, Feature, Chicago
Josh Baer Gallery, New York
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles -
1986
“Flowers”, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
“Nu-Flowers”, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego -
1985
“Starburst”, Onyx Cafe, Los Angeles
Installation at West Beach Cafe, Venice CA -
1984
“Suburban”, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
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1982
“Patio Tempo”, Artist's Space, New York
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
“Motel Modern”, The Inn of Tomorrow, Anaheim -
1981
“Modern Tempo”, Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles
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- Group Exhibitions
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2024
“Lost in Palms Springs”, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
“Joanne Greenbaum, Richard Hawkins, Jim Isermann, Pae White. Geometrie a mano”, CIRCOLO, Milan
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2023
“Shiny Happy People: Jim Isermann & Lily van der Stokker”, Leo Koenig Inc., New York
“Barrage | Bliss: Jessica Stockholder & Jim Isermann”, Leo Koenig Inc., New York
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2020
"Soft Vibrations", Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
"Energy in All Directions", Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
"La terre est bleue comme une orange". Praz-Delavallade, Paris
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2018
“Softcore”, South Willard, Los Angeles
“Welcome to the Dollhouse”, MoCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
"West By Midwest", MCA, Chicago -
2017
"I Love L.A.". Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
"Color Block", Triple V, Paris, France
“Dress Me Up", Praz-Delavallade Paris, Paris -
2016
"Folklore Planétaire”, Curated by Arnauld Pierre, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
"Instilled Life. The Art of the Domestic Object from the Permanent Collection of the UCR Sweeney Art Gallery", UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California -
2015
“Jim Isermann & James and Tilla Waters, Corvi-Mora, London
"Cut From The Same Cloth", Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
"NOWHAUS: Domestic Objects in the Modernist Tradition", Harris Gallery. University of La Verne, La Verne
"Recent Acquisitions & Favorites" Masur Museum of Art, Monroe
"Seeing The Light: Illuminating Objects", Palm Springs Art Museum, Architecture and Design Center, Palm Springs
"radical art and architecture, SUPER SUPERSTUDIO" Curated by Andreas Angelidakis, Vittorio Pizzigoni and Valter Scelsi. PAC, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
"Geometric Obsession. American School 1965-2015." Curated by Robert Morgan. MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
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2014
“Decorum: Carpets and tapestries by artists”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (cat)
"california dreamin', Thirty Years of Collecting", Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs
"Philippe Decrauzat, Julian Hoeber, Jim Isermann, Johannes Wohnseifer", Praz-Delavallade, Paris
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2013
“Decorum: Carpets and tapestries by artists”, The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (cat)
“Made in Space”, Night Gallery, Los Angeles -
2012
“buzz”, Galeria Nara Roesler, Roesler Hotel #21, Sau Paulo
"Your History Is Our History", Praz-Delavallade, Paris
"Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
“Nouvelles boîtes!”, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
“Post Pacific Standard Time, Three Artists from Los Angeles in the 1980s”, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside -
2011
“Moment - Ynglingagatan 1”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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2010
“Haute”, Wignall Museum of Contemporary, California
“Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“The Artist’s Museum”, MOCA, Los Angeles -
2009
“Yield”, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, California
“Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection”, MOMA, New York
“Collecting California. Selections from Laguna Art Museum”, Laguna Art Museum, California -
2008
“These are the People in Your Neighbourhood”, Gallery 16, San Francisco
“Angles in America”, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
“Intervention/Decoration”, Various sites, Frome, Somerset
“A Colour Box”, Arcade, London
“Downtown Le Havre”, Le Volcan’s Cabaret Electrik, Le Havre
“Living Box”, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes
“Index: Conceptualism in California from the permanent collection”, MOCA, Los Angeles
“20 Years Ago Today, Supporting Visual Artists in LA”, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
“Art on the Underground: 100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art”, A Foundation Gallery, London
“Los Vinilos”, Zoo Art Fair, London -
2007
“POST DEC: Beyond Pattern and Decoration”, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
“Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals and More”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
“If Everybody had an Ocean. Brian Wilson an Art Exhibition”, CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux
“If everybody had an Ocean. Brian Wilson an Art Exhibition”, Tate St Ives, St Ives
“Plastic/ A proposal of John Trembley. Works in vacuum-formed plastic from the 1960s to Today”, Cabinet des Estampes, du Museé d’art et d’historie, Geneva
“Painting-Design”, Peggy Phelps and East Galleries, Claremont Graduate University
“Los Vinilos”, El Basilisco, Buenos Aires
“Stephanie Dafflon/Jim Isermann/ Olivier Mosset”, Le Spot, Le Havre
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2006
“Fondation Vasarely's Birthday Party”, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence
“Unit Structures”, Lisboa 20, Lisbon -
2005
“ETC.”, Le Consortium, Dijon
“op…ish”, Samson Projects, Boston
“Icestorm”, Kunstverein München, Munich
“L.A.”, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York
“Bidibidobidiboo”, LA Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rabaudengo, Milan
“Extreme Abstraction”, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
“In the abstract”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
“TRESPASSING: Houses by Artist”. Palm Springs Desert Museum -
2004
“Suburban House Kit”, Deitch Projects, New York
“TRESPASSING: Houses by Artist”, Blaffer Art Gallery, Huston; Palm Springs Desert Museum (cat)
“Formes + Signes”, Galerie Praz Delavallade, Paris -
2003
“Honey, I Rearranged the Collection”, 1a Kempsford Road, London
“On the Wall: Wallpaper by Contemporary Artists”, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
“Of the Moment: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection”, MCASD, San Diego
“French Collection”, Mamco, Geneva
“Contemporaries: Five Years of Grant Making in the Visual Arts/California Community Foundation”, RedCat Gallery, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles (cat)
“The LAPD Project: The Legacy of Pattern and Decoration”, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica
“Variance”, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
“Jim Isermann & Monique Prieto: Works on Paper”, Corvi-Mora, London
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2002
“Flatlines”, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
“On the Wall: Wallpaper by Contemporary Artists”, The RISDI Museum, Providence RI, touring exhibition (cat)
“Now Is The Time”, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY (cat)
“TRESPASSING: Houses x Artists”, Bellevue Art Museum, Washington; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, touring exhibition (cat)
“Deluxe”, Plaza de España Contemporary Art Centre, Madrid (cat)
“Five Years”, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
“The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London”, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
“Crisp”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York -
2001
“Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark (cat)
“Tele(visions)”, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (cat)
“The Magic Hour”, Neue Galerie, Graz (cat)
“Beau Monde: toward a redeemed cosmopolitanism”, The Fourth International Biennial, Site, Santa Fe (cat)
“Drawings”, Frith Street Gallery, London -
2000
“Pure De(sign)”, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles
“What If?”, Modern Museum, Stockholm
“Works on paper from California”, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
“From Rags to Riches”, Fondation de la Tapisserie, Brussels
“Haute de Forme et Bas Fonds”, Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angouleme, France
“Artworkers”, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales (cat)
“Made in California: Now”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
“Ultralounge: The Return of Social Space (with cocktails)”, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa -
1999
“Objecthood 00”, Hellenic-American Union, Athens
“This Season”, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
“In the Midst of Things”, Bournville, Birmingham, UK (cat)
“Post-Hypnotic”, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas (cat)
“Etcetera”, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK -
1998
“Lovecraft”, South London Gallery, London
“Michelle Grabner & Jim Isermann”, Gallery 16, San Francisco
“Roommates”, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam
“Weather Everything”, Galerie für Zeitgenönissische Kunst Leipzig
“Homemade Champagne”, Peggy Phelps Gallery and East Gallery, The Claremont Graduate University, Claremont (cat)
“Pop Abstraction”, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia (cat)
“L.A. Times”, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba (cat) -
1997
“Maxwell's Demon”, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
“Dramatically Different”, Le Magasin - Centre d'art Contemporain, Grenoble
“Thread”, Cristenrose Gallery, New York
“Fake Ecstasy With Me”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Women Work: Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting”, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, N.C
“Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A. 1960 – 1997”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (cat)
“Lovecraft”, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow -
1996
“Patterns of Excess”, Beaver College Gallery, Glenside, PA
“Just Past, Selections from the Permanent Collection 1976 – 1996”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“How will we behave?”, Robert Prime, London
“Some Grids”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
“Ab Fab”, Feature, New York
“Mod Squad”, Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, CA -
1995
“Division of Labor: Women's Work in Contemporary Art”, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (cat) travelled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Very”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
“Gay Men Love Chairs” Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
“Felicity”, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles
“I Gaze a Gazely Stare”, Feature, New York
“Flowers”, Boritzer/Gray/Hamano, Santa Monica CA
“Conceptual Textiles”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboyean, WI
“The Moderns”, Feature, New York
“Smells Like Vinyl”, Roger Merians Gallery, New York
“Crystal Blue Persuasion”, Feature, New York -
1994
“Sour Ball”, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles
“Difficult Conceptualists”, The Brewery, Los Angeles
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
“Forging Ahead”, State University of Buffalo, Fine Arts Gallery, Buffalo NY
“LAX 94”, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles (cat)
“Surface de Réparation”, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
“Guys Who Sew”, Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara (cat) -
1993
“Technicolor: The Future That Never Was”, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Project Unité”, Unité d'Habitation, Firminy, France (cat) -
1992
“The Rosamund Felsen Clinic and Recovery Center”, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Primi Pensieri”, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Studio to Station: Public Art on the Metro Blue Line”, FHP Hippodrome Gallery, Santa Monica, CA -
1991
“The Rosamund Felsen Clinic and Recovery Center”, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Primi Pensieri”, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Studio to Station: Public Art on the Metro Blue Line”, FHP Hippodrome Gallery, Santa Monica, CA -
1990
“Abstract Painting: Three Sensibilities”, Siegfried Gallery, Ohio University School of Art, Athens, OH
“Representation-Non-Representation”, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa
“Geometric Abstraction”, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles
“Material Conceits”, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC -
1989
“Temporary Installations 89”, Manhattan Beach Public Arts Program, Children's Section, Public Library, Manhattan Beach, CA
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1988
“The Home Show”, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (cat)
“After Abstract”, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (cat)
“Recent Work from Los Angeles”, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
“LA CA Boys”, Feature, Chicago
“Walk Out to Winter”, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
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1987
“L.A. Hot & Cool”, List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (cat)
“(of Ever-Ever Land I speak)”, Stux Gallery, New York
“CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s)”, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA (cat)
“A Different Corner”, US Pavilion, I Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Museo de Arte Moderna, Cuence, Ecuador (cat)
“Avant-Garde in the 80's”, (with Irene Segalove), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
“Nature”, Feature, Chicago -
1986
“Greenberg's Dilemma”, Loughelton Gallery, New York
“TV Generations”, LACE, Los Angeles (cat)
“California Chairs”, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
“A Southern California Collection”, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
“Meanwhile Back at the Ranch...”, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
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1985
“Future Furniture”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach (cat)
“Fashion”, LAICA, Los Angeles
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles -
1984
“Spies and Boyfriends”, Vickman's Restaurant, Los Angeles
“Contextual Furnishings: Isermann, McMakin, Vaughn”, Mandeville Art Center, University of California, San Diego
“Furniture, Furnishings: Subject, Object”, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
“L.A. Apocalypse”, Whiteley Gallery, Los Angeles -
1983
“Spy-Tiki Modern”, Fun Gallery West, San Francisco (installation with Jeffery Vallance and Mark Kroening)
“Cultural Excavations: Recent and Distant”, Japanese American Cultural and Community Centre, Los Angeles (cat)
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles -
1981
“The Fix-It-Up Show”, LACE, Los Angeles (Work altered by Jeffery Vallence and Michael Uhlenkott)
“Fictive Victims”, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
“Some Painters”, Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles
“Southern California Artists”, LAICA, Los Angeles -
1980
“The Young/The Restless”, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles
“Furnishings by Artists”, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles
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- Projects
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2013
"Paint Job", Craft and Folk Art Museum's Wilshire Blvd painted facade design, CAFAM, Los Angeles
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2012
“I-block”, a colour integrated concrete block system and “Utility (Happy) blanket” a custom screen printed moving/pet blanket. Two open edition products for The Workshop Residence, San Francisco.
“Untitled”, Limited edition digital print for the Albright Knox Art Gallery’s 150th Anniversary, Buffalo, NY
“Petit Five”, 40 roto-moulded polythylene seating modules for the courtyard of Hagerty Hall at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Commissioned 2011, installed 2012. -
2011
“Paperworks” Custom poster/multiple/wallpaper, temporary installation, St. Austell, UK
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2010
“Untitled”, Temporary decal lobby commission, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
“Untitled”, Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texas
“Untitled, (Screen/Sculpture)”, Private Collection, McKim, Mead & White Mansion, New York -
2009
“Crump”, Installed at Stanford University, California
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2008
“Untitled (SEAS/ORFE)”, Installed at Sherrerd Hall, Princetown University, New Jersey
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2007
“Damn Everything but Sister Corita”, An email conversation between Pae White and Jim Isermann, Afterall.org
Piccadilly Line Tube wrap, Platform for Art, London
“Untitled (Love Letter to Louis Kahn)”, Yale University Art Museum. Commissioned construction fence consisting of 15,000 put-in-cups and nine 8 x 10 chain link sections, temporary installation -
2006
“Untitled (Greek Key)”, 200 foot long chain link and 40,000 put-in-cup construction fence commissioned for the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
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2005
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center – Cyber Café Ceiling Project, New York
LA Metro Customer Service Center at Wilshire and LaBrea, Los Angeles
UCR Genomics Building, Modular metal and light wall sculpture, Riverside
Vinyl Link Entrance Mats, commission for the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
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2004
“IT House”, custom vinyl graphic applique for TK Architecture's off-the-shelf featherweight aluminium and glass house, Los Angeles
“Upholstery Textile”, commissioned by Rosenthal Einrichrung, Germany for the “Flying Carpet” Chair
“I - tile design 2004”, 10 balcony facades and residential lobby, 11023 McCormick Street, Los Angeles -
2003
Art + Architecture, portfolio and postcard, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
Vacuum form multiple; 4 panel multiple (edition of 50 white and 50 silver), Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
“Chandelier Project”, commissioned by The Mission Bay Art Planning Committee of the University of California, San Francisco -
2002
Wallwork, (commissioned permanent installation), L.A Eyeworks, Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles
Three Silkscreen Print Suite, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
Elevator floor indicators, commissioned permanent installation in 8 cans, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, Flom, New York -
2000
Contravision Vinyl Window Treatment, Shopfront window, Corvi -Mora, London
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1999
Jim Isermann, “Jim Isermann's Top Ten”, Artforum, April, p.40
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1996
“Art & The Home”, Art & Design, edited by David Greene, Vol.11 Nov-Dec, 1996, p 82 - 89 (plus cover)
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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, L'Ile du Roy, Centre d'art et Jardin,
Val de Reuil, France (artist's project, p.80-81) -
1992
1992 Calendar commissioned by Fuji Oil, Osaka
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1991
1991 Calendar commissioned by Fuji Oil, Osaka
Silkscreen print edition published by Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, TX
Book cover, “Hand over Heart”, writings by David Trinidad -
1990
1990 Calendar commissioned by Fuji Oil, Osaka
Magazine cover, "Shiny", New York -
1988
“T.V. Lounge”, American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY, (permanent installation)
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1987
Catalogue cover, “L.A. Hot & Cool”, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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1986
“T.V. Room”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, video screening room (destroyed 1994)
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1985
Book cover, “Monday, Monday”, writings by David Trinidad
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1984
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
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1982
Video sets for MTV's “The Cutting Edge”, for the Bangles and the Three O'Clock
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- Selected Publications
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2019
Maria C. Gaztambide, "On Site. 50 Years of Public Art of the University of Houston System" Scala Arts Publishers, Inc. pp. 20, 120-33, 269
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2015
Andreas Angelidakis ; Vittorio Pizzigoni; Valter Scelsi, "Super Superstudio" Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Silvana Editoriale, 2015. (336 pages) pp. 17, 299 & 316
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2014
“Decorum: Carpets & tapestries by artists”, Shanghai Moca, Shanghai, p.37
Joshua Decter, Helmut Draxler, "Exhibition as Social Intervention 'Culture in Action' 1993" Exhibition Histories, An After all Book. (224 pages) pp. 60 + 61
Nikki Columbus, "Live the Art. 15 Years of Deitch Projects" Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. (450 pages) pp. 160, 180, 181, 183, 226, 227, 294 & 295
Simon Clarke, "Print: Fashion, Interiors, Art" Laurence King Publishing Ltd. (272 pages) pp. 214 – 221
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2013
Ian Berry, Michael and Duncan, "Someday is Now, The Art of Corita". The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, NY. (254 pages) p. 178
"DECORUM, Carpets and Tapestries by Artists". Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, Paris, France. Skira Flammarion. (224 pages) p.18.
Steven A. Nash, Daniell Cornell, Christine Giles, Mara Gladstone, Katherine Plake Hough, Sidney Williams, "75 years, 75 artworks: selections from the permanent collection, celebrating the diamond anniversary of the Palm Springs Art Museum". Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA. (176 pages) pp. 100 &101
"The MOCA Index 2010-13" The Museum of Contemporary Art, (212 pages) p. 14
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2012
Douglas Dreishpoon; Louis Grachos; David Pagel; Heather Pesanti, "Decade:
Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Tamsin Dillon, "The Roundel, 100 Artists Remake a London Icon", Art on the Underground, Art/Books -
2011
Jeff Davis, “Foundations of Design”, Wadsworth Cengage Learning
Ken Johnson, “Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art”, Prestel Publishing
“Yinglingagatan 1. 1993-1999”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden -
2010
Nancy Spector, “Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Michael Auping, David Dillon & David Pagel, “Cowboys Stadium, Architecture, Art, Entertainment in the Twenty-First Century”, Rizzoli International Publications
Christiane Berndes, “Plug In to Play”, Vanabbemuseum, Eindhoven, p.70 -
2009
“Hammer Projects 1999-2009”, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, pp. 158-161
“Collecting California: Selection from Laguna Art Museum”, Laguna Art Museum, p.107
Christian Rattemeyer, “The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection. Catalog Raisonné”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
2008
Dave Hickey, “Utopia Now”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Jessica Hough, Monica Ramirez-Montagu, “Revisiting the Glass House, Contemporary Art and Modern Architecture”, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut, pp.90-93, 130
Barbara Glasner, Petra Schmidt, Ursula Schöndeling, “Patterns 2. Art and Architecture”, Birkhäuser Verlag AG, Basel, pp.172-175 -
2007
Tamsin Dillon, “Platform for Art, Art on the Underground”, Black Dog Publishing Limited, London, pp.41 & 110
Charlotte Laubard, “Masterpieces”, CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, pp. 210-211
Joe Houston, “Optic Nerve, Perceptual Art of the 1960s”, Columbus Museum of Art/Merrell, Columbus, pp. 159 &160
David Pagel, “PaintingDesign”, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, pp.31-34 -
2006
Amos Klausner, “Heath Ceramics, The Complexity of Simplicity”, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, p.118
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2005
Yves Aupetillot, “Magasin 1986-2006 – Centre National d’Art Contemporain”, JRP/Ringier, Zurich, pp.70-73, 157
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2003
Joseph Rosa, “Next Generation Architecture: Folds, Blobs and Boxes”, Rizzoli, New York, pp.6-7, 68-71
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2001
“Jim Isermann: Vinyl Works”, Portikus Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt
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1998
“Fifteen”, Insitute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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1995
“Failed Ideals”, Apple Graphics, Los Angeles Country Metroploitan Transportation Authority, Los Angles
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- Selected Bibliography
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2021
“Jim Isermann, Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800”, The Modern Art Notes Podcast, Episode No. 527
Christopher Knight, “The Cube Redefined”, Los Angeles Times, November 21
Christopher Knight, “In 1997 Jim Isermann slipcovered a Minimalist cube. The rest is queer art history” Los Angeles Times, November 12
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2020
Steve Biller, “Come on, Get Happy! Jim Isermann’s wildly bright, sunshine-y approach to abstraction nods to the modernism of midcentury Palm Springs”, Palm Springs Life, January 27
Brian Bluesky, "Patterns at play" The Desert Sun, February 2, section C, pp. 1 & 7 -
2017
Christopher Knight, “A balancing act of industrial form”, Los Angeles Times, February 27
Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, “Joe Zucker and Jim Isserman” Art talk KCRW 89.9 FM, March 2 -
2016
Henry Coleman; Jim Isermann; Rupert Norfolk, “Jim Isermann. Constituent Components”
Physical Information, Bloomberg SPACE, 24 pages
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2015
Kimberly Nichols, “Beyond Mod with artist Jim Isermann”, DesertSun.com, January 26
Craig A. Shutt, "Aggregate Innovation" ASCENT Designing with Precast. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, Spring 2015. pp. 48 - 51 -
2014
Christopher Knight, "Review: Jim Isermann gives paintings a fresh dimension", Los Angeles Times, May 2
Katherine Plake Hough, "california dreamin': Thirty Years Of Collecting", Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA. (48 pages) pp. 26 + 27.
Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, "Jim Isermann at Telles and Renee Petropoulos' Public Art" Art Talk on KCRW 89.9 FM. Thursday, May 15
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2013
Alexa Hotz, “Artful Utility Blankets from an Artist in Residence”, Remodelista, Issue 80, July 12
Andrew Russeth, "'Made In Space' at Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan". online at GalleristNY. July 23
Roberta Smith, "Made In Space", The New York Times. August 1
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2012
Jeff McCallister, “Arts and Memorials Committee Revs Up Its Work”, oncampus.osu.edu, May 16
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2011
Skye Sherwin, “Jim Isermann”, The Guardian Guide, June 18, p.40
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2009
David Pagel, “Culture Monster”, Los Angeles Times, May 8, p.D12
Annie Buckley, "Jim Isermann", Artforum.com, May
Christopher Miles, “Jim Isermann at Richard Telles Fine Art”, LA Weekly, May 15. p.44
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2008
Judicaël Lavrador, “Qu-est-ce Que La Peinture Aujourd’hui?”, Beaux Arts Éditions, November, p.13
Colin Glen, “Intervention/Decoration”, Art Monthly, June, pp.30-31
Dominic Bradbury, “Modernist Masterpiece”, Telegraph Magazine, July 5 -
2007
Bridget L. Goodbody, “Jim Isermann”, The New York Times, July 13, p.E31
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2006
Fredrik Nilsen, “Art to Live With, Full of Wonder”, Los Angeles Times, January 10, p.E26
Lynne Heffley, “Once-proud façade gets a saving grace”, Los Angeles Times, October 8, p.E38
Natasha Boas, “Conversation: Patterned Perfection”, Dwell Magazine, June, pp.122-126
David Pagel, “Art to live with, full of wonder”, Los Angeles Times, January 20, p.E26 -
2005
Andrea Bellini, “New York Tales”, Flash Art, November-December, pp.84-85
Faye Hirsch, “Abstract Generations”, Art in America, October, pp.122-129
Kalte Fusion, “Über die Ausstellung “Icestorm” im Kunstverein München”, Texte zur Kunst, September, pp.199-204
Lynne Heffley, “In the NoHo Arts District, 'I' stands for Isermann”, Los Angeles Times, June 1, p.E18
“iT House”, Metropolitan Home, May, p.9
Pablo Lafuente, “Jim Isermann”, ArtReview, May, p.102
Jennifer Thatcher, “Jim Isermann”, Art Monthly, April, pp.18-19
“iT House”, Wired, April, p.27 -
2004
Alistair Gordon, “Absolutely Prefab”, The New York Times, Home Design Magazine, Spring, pp.100-103
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2003
Barbara Lamprecht, “Three Classic Houses, California”, Architectural Record, November, pp.158-163
Joseph Rosa, “Next Generation Architecture: Folds, Blobs and Boxes”, Rizzoli, pp.6,7,68-71
Vincent Pécoil, “Op Stars”, Art Monthly, October, pp.7-10
William Middleton, “The New Mod Squad: Reviving the 60's”, Harper's Bazaar, September, pp.384-389 -
2002
Undine Prohl, “Come Back to the Springs”, DECORS, September-November, Front cover, pp.137-148
Michael Webb, “Los Angeles Insight”, Domus, October, Issue 852, pp.136-143
Jan-Willem Poels, “L.A. Eye Candy”, Frame, September/October, pp.72-77
David Pagel, “Jim Isermann, The Playful Wallpaperer”, Los Angeles Times, August 30, pp.F1,F26
Paco Barragán, “La Obra Total de Jim Isermann”, Lapiz, Issue 184, pp.56-61
Paco Barragán, The Art To Come, pp.142-143
Martin Coomer, “Jim Isermann”, Time Out, February 20-27, p.51
Morgan Falconer, “Jim Isermann”, What's On, February 13-20, p.24
Louisa Buck, “Jim Isermann”, The Art Newspaper, February, p.14
David Bussel, “Born to Be Plaid”, i-D, February, p.175
Stephen Mitchell, “Jim Isermann”, Evening Standard, January 14, p.51 -
2001
Carmine Iannaccone, “Jim Isermann”, Art Issues, November/December 2001, p.45
Charles Dee Mitchell, “Making the Case for Pleasure”, Art In America, November, p.122-129
Michael Duncan, “Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism”, Artforum, October, pp.153-154
Rosetta Brooks, “Artists Run Space”, Frieze, March 2001, p.63 -
2000
Valerie Reardon, “Artworkers”, Art Monthly, April 2000, p.22-23
William L. Hamilton, “New Art's Interior Motive”, The New York Times, February 3, Design Notebook Section -
1989
Holland Cotter, Review (“15”), The New York Times, October 29, p.B37
Vena-Mondt, “Jim Isermann at the scale of Magasin”, Mag, October, p.2-3
Jody Zellen, “Fifteen: Jim Isermann Survey”, d'art International, Spring/Summer, p.25
Michael Duncan, “From Bauhaus to Jim's House”, Art in America, p.100-103,137 (cover)
Bruce Hainley, “Fifteen”, Artforum, Summer, p.159-160
Weather Everything, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Cantz
Christopher Knight, “The Material Pleasures of Sculptor Isermann”, Los Angeles Times, April 3, pp.F1-F12 -
1988
Frank-Alexander Hettig, “Sooner or Later, Everything comes Back”, Metropolis M, December/January 1998/1999, pp.54-57
David Bonneti, San Francisco Examiner, Friday, December 18, p.B2
Rhonda Lieberman, “Handled with Care”, Frieze, No.41, June/August, pp.58-61
Claudine Ise, Los Angeles Times, May 1, p.F24
Martin Coomer, “Jim Isermann”, Time Out, January 14-21, p.44
Kate Bernard, “Jim Isermann”, Evening Standard "Hot Tickets", January 8, p.41 -
1997
Christopher Knight, “Lots of Sunshine, Very Little Light”, Los Angeles Times, July 27, pp.4,5,85
David Pagel, Jim Isermann “The Best of Both Worlds”, Art & Text, No.57, May - July, pp.66-73
Carmine Iannacone, “Jim Isermann & Jorge Pardo”, Frieze, March/April
Maia Damiancovic, “Painting Beyond Limits”, Tema Celeste, March/April, p.111 -
1996
Rosetta Brooks, LA Weekly, December 27-2 January, p.41
Elizabeth Kley, Artnet Worldwide, HTTP://www.artnet.com, December
David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, November 29, p.F30 -
1995
Christopher Knight, “Women's Work is Never Done at MOCA”, Los Angeles Times, October 1, p.62
David Pagel, “Weaves That Weave A Magic Spell”, Los Angeles Times, September 22, p.F20
Robert Atkins, “Lesbian & Gay Wahtzis”, The Village Voice, June 20, pp.71-72 -
1994
Terry Myers, “Painting Camp”, Flash Art, November/December, pp.73-76
Michael Duncan, Art in America, October, p.143
David A. Greene, “Critics Choice”, Los Angeles Reader, September 29, p.14
David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, September 22, p.F20
Christopher Knight, “Suburban Bauhaus”, Art Issues, May/June, pp.29-31 (cover)
Lisa Anne Auerbach, Artforum, May, p.107
Terry Myers, The New Art Examiner, May, p.47
Ralph Rugoff, “Fun with Formalism”, LA Weekly, April 22-28, p.33
Susan Kandel, Los Angeles Times, March 25, p.F20
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Los Angeles Times, March 20, pp.87,90
David A. Greene, “Technicolor Hero”, Los Angeles Reader, March 18, p.21
Kim Levin, “Art in Brief”, The Village Voice, February 8, p.72
Holland Cotter, “Art in Review”, The New York Times, January 14, p.C29 -
1993
Joshua Decter and Olivier Zahm, Artforum, November, pp.91-92,131,138
Michael Duncan, “Technicolor”, Frieze, November/December, p.62
Eric Troncy, “Spotlight: Project Unité”, Flash Art, October, p.117
James Roberts, “Down With the People”, Frieze, September/October, pp.26-27
“News of the Print World”, Print Collector's Newletter, September/October, p.143
Kester Rattenbury, “Bringing New Life to Le Corbusier's Lost City”, Blueprint, July/August
James Scarborough, “Technicolor”, art press, July/August, p.89
Jean-Yves Jouannais, “Unité”, art press, July/August
David Pagel, “Technicolor”, The Los Angeles Times, April 15
Eric Troncy, “Naakt en Kneedbaar”, Metropolis M, No.3, pp.33-37 -
1992
Mark Stevens, “Design Invitational”, Vanity Fair, December, p.200
Janet Wiscombe, “A Line of Vision”, Press-Telegram, October 4, pp.J1,J5
David Pagel, , The Los Angeles Times, September 24, p.F4
David Pagel, “New York Fax”, Art Issues, May/June, pp.25-26
Peter Schjedahl, “Trend: Sweetness and Light”, The Village Voice, April 14, p.105
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1991
James Lewis, “Home Boys”, Artforum, October, pp.101-105
Tom Moody, Art Paper, July/August, p.65
Janet Tyson, “Modern Muscle”, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 26, section E, p.10
Tom Moody, “What You See is What You Saw”, Dallas Observer, May 9, p.19
Terry R. Myers, LAPIZ, March, p.77
Ken Johnson, Art in America, March, p 201
Robert Mahoney, “New York in Review”, Arts, April, p.105
Michael Anderson, Art Issues, February, p.24
Marc Selwyn, Flash Art, January/February, p.136 -
1990
Ken Johnson, Art in America, March, p.201
Michael Anderson, Art Issues, February, p.24
Joshua Decter, “New York in Review”, Arts, February, p.95
New Art, eds., Eric Himmel and others, Harry N.Abrams Inc., New York, pp.92-93
Marc Selwyn, Flash Art, January/February, p.136 -
1989
Sponsored page, dialogue, November/December, p.65
Christopher Knight, “Shags Show Vulgar Kind of Beauty”, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, June 24
Dennis Cooper, Artscribe International, January/February, p.83 -
1988
Ralph Rugoff, “Pop Goes the Easel”, LA Style, November, pp.135-138
Mathew A. Weinstein, Artforum, October, p.150
Brian Butler, “Irony Masked as Emulation”, Artweek, July 9, p.6
Christopher Knight, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, June 24 -
1987
Jean-Yves Jouannais, “unite”, art press, July/August, pp.80-81
Dennis Cooper, , Art in America, May, p.191
Holland Cotter, “Eight Artists Interviewed”, Art in America, May, pp.166-167,199 -
1986
Robert Pincus, “Flower Art Digs Into 60's”, San Diego Union, December 18, p.C-8
Michael Duncan, “Technicolor”, Frieze, November/December, p.62
Hunter Drohojowska, “Artists Critics Are Watching”, Artnews, May, p.80
Christopher Knight, “The Return of Flower Power”, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, January 26 -
1984
Colin Gardner, L.A. Reader, October 26
Robert Pincus, Artforum, October -
1983
Robert Pincus, Art in America, March, p.164
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1982
Dennis Cooper, L.A. Weekly, November 12-18, p.22
Susan C. Larson, Artforum, April
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- Permanent Collections
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Le FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Poitier, France
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands