Bari Ziperstein assembles all manner of figurines, furniture and various other found objects to create elegant yet convoluted documentations of time and place. Setting up antique store-like vignettes, her site specific installations of ceramic and mixed-media sculpture pieces seem at once all too common (owing to the banality of the original parts they are made up of) and wildly whimsical. Recently, Ziperstein’s work was on view in a solo exhibition, entitled Perk, at See Line Gallery‘s new location at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. As part of the Los Angeles-based artist’s ongoing exploration of peoples’ relationships to architectural spaces and the idea of place, the show–curated by Janet Levy–featured a site specific installation in which Ziperstein transformed a design showroom into what the gallery called “an uncanny quintessential model domestic space.”

Bari Ziperstein lives and works in Los Angeles. She holds an MFA from CalArts, a WS (Women’s Studies Certificate) from Ohio University and a BFA in painting from Ohio University. Her work has been exhibited widely around Los Angeles and internationally, recently in the group show, Bitch is the New Black, curated by Emma Gray, at Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver City; Drama of the Gifted Child: The Five Year Plan, curated by David Burns, at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena; and Edge of Light, curated by Emily Newman, at C.A.G. Gallery in St. Petersburg, Russia.