Jeffrey Isaac

Jeffrey Isaac (* 1956 in New York) is a painter and video artist.

Life

He spent his childhood in Switzerland. He studied at the Rhode Iceland School of Design in New York and at the Camberwell School of Art in London. Since 1976, Jeffrey Isaac from his paintings in Switzerland, the USA, Italy and Germany. In New York he founded in 1979, the self-proclaimed smallest magazine in the world of its kind, the Public Illumination Magazine. In 1986 he moved to Umbria in the vicinity of the town of Spoleto. There he met the American artist Sol LeWitt, both shared a good friendship. In the years 1999 to 2006, Isaac devote more and more of video art. 2004, it comes in the town of Foligno, a scandal. Jeffrey Isaac chose the central procession to paint a banner showing the Holy Felicianus naked on a horse. In 2007 he designed an animation for the performance of Ellen Stewart of the play Gozzi e Goldoni europei at the 38th Biennale Teatro in Venice. 2009, a selection from this period was exhibited in the exhibition Detournement Venise the 53rd Biennale d' Arte in Venice.

Exhibitions

  • Portrait, art room T27, Berlin, Germany, 2010
  • Walking the Dog, Kunsthalle Dominican church, Osnabrück, Germany, 2010
  • Mediamorfosi 2.0, Sublab, Portici, Italy, 2010
  • OSTRALE'010, Centre for Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany, 2010
  • Nature - Man in 2010, the Harz National Park, St. Andrew Berg, Germany, 2010
  • Horizons, Altes Museum Neukölln, Berlin, Germany, 2010
  • Nord Art 2010, Art in the Carlshütte Büddelsdorf, Germany, 2010
  • LUST, 1 Bazon Nale, Weimar, Germany, 2010
  • Pressure figure, gallery Southern Friesland, Zetel, Germany, 2009
  • MANIFEST Destinies, 53th Biennale d' Arte, Venice, Italy, 2009
  • MAnATURE, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin, Germany 2009
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread ..., Galleria Civica d' Arte Moderna, Spoleto, Italy, 2009
  • I diavoli di Jeffrey Isaac, Villa Fabri o Boemi, Trevi, Italy, 2008
  • Dogs, Devils & Disasters, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Germany, 2007
  • Video Anti, c.a.l.m.a., Perugia, Italy, 2007
  • Profane & Sacred, Auditorium della Stella, Spoleto, Italy, in 2006
  • 10 Dog 's Tales, Festival dei Presidia, Orbetello, Italy, 1999
  • Umbrian Walk, Castello di Poreta, Spoleto, Italy, in 1998
  • Magic Show, Gallery Commercio, Zurich, Switzerland, 1998
  • Passage of Birds, Monti Associazione Culturale, Rome, Italy, 1997
  • Subway to Caserta, MediArte, Caserta, Italy, 1996
  • Animal Portraits, Planita, Rome; Palazzo Comunale, Spoleto, Italy, 1995
  • Per mari e monti, Macerata, Italy, 1995
  • Bestiario "Studio Cristofori, Bologna, Italy, 1994
  • Small retrospective gallery Commercio, Zurich, Switzerland, 1994
  • Subway to Italy, Salvatore Ala, NYC, USA, 1994
  • Panorama di Bazzano Superiore, Planita, Rome, Italy, 1994
  • Dina Carola, Naples, Italy 1993
  • 93 Olives, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy, 1993
  • Madonna del Pozzo, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy, 1991
  • Gallery Feusisberg Feusisberg, Switzerland, 1990
  • Panorama di Bazzano Superiore, Spoletosfera, Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, 1990
  • New gallery a16, Zurich, Switzerland, 1990
  • Nada Relic Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 1990
  • Palazzo Spada Rosari, Spoleto, Italy, in 1989
  • Nada Relic Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 1988
  • Gallery Murbach, Horgen, Switzerland, 1987
  • Edison Hall Gallery, Edison, NJ, USA, 1985
  • Phenix City Art Gallery, NYC, USA, 1985
  • Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, 1984
  • ZONA, Florence, Italy, 1982
  • Gallery 38, Zurich, Switzerland, 1979, 1977, 1976

Literature (selection )

  • Jeffrey Isaac, Theo Feig Vol 2, Berlin, 2009
  • Jeffrey Isaac: Dog, Devils & Disasters, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, Schwetzingen, 2007

Swell

  • 38th Biennale Teatro
  • Show Website Detournement Venise
  • Articles about Foligno
  • Kunstverein Schwetzingen
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