13ThingsLA: May 29

Black & White, Polychrome & Pride for your art calendar

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Jim Isermann installation view at PDC Gallery (Photo by Shana Nys Dambrot)

Review: Jim Isermann: Wrapture public reception at the Pacific Design Center Gallery, Thursday, May 30, 3-7pm. Paintings by Jim Isermann are optically charged, hard-edge crisp, geometrical and supple works with candy-coated palettes and a mind-bending blending of machine-like precision and obvious joie de vivre. Any one of them—much less a room full of them—would be enough to activate your kaleidoscope eyes. But why stop there when you can also cover the walls and hallways (of the former MOCA outpost on the PDC side plaza) with monumental polychromatic vinyls that set the paintings off as though the building were an electrifying extension of them. Isermann’s ideas about the history of MInimalism, Hard Edge abstraction, Bauhaus, Op Art, and the Pattern & Decoration movement are expansive and nuanced, but the fundamental project is to evolve a practice grounded in that art history and proceeding from a Queer perspective. Which makes it even more fabulous that the public reception for this museological rainbow-vibe wonderland is an afternoon party that coincides with the kickoff of Pride Month. On view in West Hollywood through June 29; milesmcenery.com. —SND

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