11 Facts About Jim Isermann

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Jim Isermann was born on 1955, Kenosha, Wisconsin and is an American artist.

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Jim Isermann is based in Palm Springs and Guerneville, California.

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Jim Isermann's artwork has focused on post-war industrial design and architecture.

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4.

Jim Isermann has participated in numerous exhibitions in art galleries and museum, and has created large scale commissioned projects utilizing industrial manufacturing processes.

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Jim Isermann's work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Richard Telles, Los Angeles, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, Corvi-Mora, London, Mary Boone Gallery, New York and others.

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In 1997, Jim Isermann purchased a prefabricated steel and glass houses in Palm Springs that had been designed by Donald Wexler, and after refurbishing the building, eventually moved from Los Angeles to the property full time in 2000.

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Jim Isermann is a professor of Art at UC Riverside where he has taught since 2006, and has taught at Occidental College, Otis College of Art and Design, and UCLA.

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8.

In 1982 Jim Isermann created Motel Modern, an exhibition in a room at the Inn of Tomorrow, a hotel across the street from Disneyland.

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Since the 90s Jim Isermann's work has frequently been discussed as addressing issues of style and decoration at the intersection between art and applied design.

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Jim Isermann had spent the prior half-dozen years teaching himself a number of homespun craft techniques, gleaned from how-to handbooks.

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11.

Jim Isermann's work is frequently referred to as having a strong relationship queerness and camp.

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