Evelyn & Jerome Ackerman at Craft Contemporary
Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman at their ERA Industries showroom, Los Angeles, early 1970s. Photo: Bob Lopez The joint career of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman almost demands comparison to that of a better-known designing couple, Charles and Ray Eames. Like the Eameses, the Ackermans went to art school in Michigan, became partners in life and art, and headed west for Mid-Century Los Angeles. Their work combines sophisticated abstraction with a Brady Bunch palette and excursions into middlebrow ditsy. The Ackermans are only now being rediscovered, and Craft Contemporary’s "Material Curiosity by Design: Evelyn & Jerome Ackerman" is a worthy introduction. Installation view, "Material Curiosity by Design" Jerome Ackerman, Cups (about 1953–54) and Bottle with Stopper (1955) Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman, Angel with Lyre platter, 1954 Jerome Ackerman was a studio ceramicist, and Evelyn was the idea woman, mistress of all media. She got first billing (unlike Ray Eames, whose c...
