Issac Layman
Untitled - IL 159, 2018
photographic construction
34 x 35" image
35.75 x 36.25" framed
Edition of 8, 2AP
Untitled (cardboard box), 2018
photographic construction
34 x 42" image
35.25 x 43.75" framed
Edition of 5, 2AP
BIO
Isaac Layman is a photographer who consistently pushes the limits of how an image can be constructed while using his immediate domestic surroundings as subject matter. Layman has exhibited at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, MA), Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA), Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX) and Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL), among others. He was awarded the Betty Bowen Award from the Seattle Art Museum and the Contemporary Northwest Art Award from the Portland Art Museum. His work is in many collections including the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse (Miami, FL), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX), and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN).
EXHIBITIONS
ARCHIVED:
Isaac Layman | Funeral
August 1 - September 21, 2013
Isaac Layman | Selections
April 7 - May 28, 2011
NEWS
Three works by Isaac Layman have recently been donated to two museum collections
Airing April 7, 2020, Joseph Gallivan interviews Elizabeth Leach on KBOO Art Focus.
Isaac Layman’s exhibition Never Was A Thing was reviewed in the Oregonian.