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Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin 
Lives in Los Angeles

Jim Isermann’s artwork explores the relationship between abstraction and design.  Using ordinary household materials like plywood, fabric, nylon, paint, cotton, glass, he hand crafts furniture, rugs, weavings, quilts and, stained glass incorporating vibrant patterns and tactile materials.

Selected solo exhibitions

1999     Fifteen: Jim Isermann Survey, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

1998     Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

Selected group exhibitions

1998     Pop Abstraction, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA

1997     Fake Ecstasy with Me, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Projects

1996     Art and The Home, Art & Design, edited by David Greene, Vol. 11, Nov-Dec, 1996.

1993     Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, Metro Blue Line, Fifth Street Station, Long Beach CA (completed 1995)

1988     TV Lounge, American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY