Hirsch Perlman

Move. At Blum & Poe Gallery in Los Angeles. He is represented by Blum & Poe Gallery in Los Angeles, California

Hirsch Perlman studied at Yale University. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture, fine-art photography and stop-motion. Employment is recorded with University of California, Los Angeles. Work by Hirsch Perlman is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago and Whitney Museum of American Art.

Perlman attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Hirsch Perlman’s oeuvre spans sculpture, scripted film, stop-motion animation and photography. His experimental, accumulative, and often time-based practice draws the viewer into his rigorous tests of visual and literal, and the limits of control. He implements simple materials and clichés, reworked to produce poignant and unexpected results. His large silk-screen prints of cat drawings entitled Schrödinger Cats are named for the Austrian physicist’s experiment to illustrate the paradox of quantum mechanics and the contingencies of physical context. The emblematic cat trapped in a box, and simultaneously dead and alive has been co-opted by popular and science-fiction writers from Robert Anton Wilson to Douglas Adams. In the early 1990s, Perlman produced a series of works around the theme of evidence, several of which were included in the 1992 exhibition Exhibit A, held at the Serpentine Gallery, in London.

2009 Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan 2007 ergo despero, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain The Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Drammens Museum, Drammens, Norway Saint-Gaudens Memorial Picture Gallery, Cornish, NH 2005 Gimpel Fils, London, UK Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan Drammens Museum, Drammen, Norway 2004 Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA