REISS, ROLAND PERSONAL POLITICS: SCULPTURE FROM THE 1970s AND 1980s.

Author: Clothier, Peter;
Country: California
Language: English
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 80
Illustrations: 138 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 11”
Weight:
ISBN: 9781450790284
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh.
Code: 7134

Price: $49.50

Roland Reiss has been a major presence in the Los Angeles art world both as an artist and teacher for several decades. During the 1970s and 1980s, the artist created miniature sculptures/boxes of scenes from everyday life, which are among his most famous and groundbreaking works, despite the fact that he works primarily as a painter. Organized by the PMCA and curated by Kate Johnson, the exhibition featured close to thirty of these miniature scenes. Evoking stress, panic, ambition, fear, insecurity and delight through the narrative tableaux, Reiss examines our society’s semiotics, or codified signifiers of hidden meaning. In addition, the exhibition also included one of the artist’s most monumental works: a rarely seen life-size representation of a living room entitled, The Castle of Perseverance.