SITE SANTA FE TO PRESENT JIM ISERMANN AND SUSAN YELAVICH IN DISCUSSION SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 29, 2001
Santa Fe, NM -- In conjunction
with its Fourth International Biennial exhibition, Beau Monde: Toward
a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, SITE Santa Fe is pleased to present a
discussion between Biennial artist Jim Isermann and design expert Susan Yelavich,
Assistant Director for Public Programs at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum,
Smithsonian Museum, on Saturday, September 29, at 5 pm. The event is
part of the Art & Culture series. General Admission is $5; students, seniors:
$2.50; SITE Santa Fe Members at Friend and Family levels: $2.50, SITE Santa
Fe Members at Supporter level and above: Free.
Jim Isermann's art combines retro influences with modern details in
furniture reminiscent of the 1950s and painted works that suggest OP Art from
the 1960s and '70s. Isermann received his MFA from the California Institute
of the Arts and has been showing actively since 1980 in both solo and group
exhibitions. He has received several prestigious awards, among them two National
Endowment for the Arts--Visual Arts Fellowships and the California Community
Foundation's J. Paul Getty Fellowship for the Visual Arts. Isermann was commissioned
by SITE Santa Fe to create a new façade for the building for the Fourth
International Biennial.
Susan Yelavich is the Assistant Director for Public Programs at Cooper-Hewitt,
National Design Museum, Smithsonian Museum, in New York, and is responsible
for the museum's exhibitions, publications, and educational programs, as well
as its design department. In 1997, she co-curated the exhibition Design
for Life: A Centennial Celebration. Her publications include Design
for Life (1997) and The Edge of the Millennium: An International Critique
of Architecture, Urban Planning, Product and Communication Design (1993).
She is a member of the Board of the American Center for Design. A frequent
writer and lecturer on design, Yelavich is a graduate of Brown University
and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
SITE Santa Fe's Art & Culture series is partially supported by The
Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston, Lannan Foundation, Madelin Coit and Alan
Levin, Bobbie Foshay-Miller and Chuck Miller, and Marlene Nathan Meyerson.
Concurrent with this event is SITE Santa Fe's Fourth International Biennial
exhibition, entitled Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism,
curated by Dave Hickey, on view through January 6, 2002.
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Jim Isermann
Susan Yelavich
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