Lucky No.7 on NYTimes art critic Roberta Smith top 9 shows of 2011 is Kerry's show of Tom Fairs drawings at KS Art.

Thrill to have such a quiet, elegant yet riveting drawing show of small pencil drawings of northern London gardens and buildings be recognized.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/12/18/arts/design/12182011_RSMITH-7.html

Tom Fairs exhibition gets a rave review in the New York Times!

     The exhibition of Tom Fairs sketchbook drawings at KS Art gets a rave review in the New York Times on June 2nd, 2011.
Follow the link below to the story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/arts/design/tom-fairs-drawings.html?scp=1&sq=Tom%20Fairs&st=cse

Maxwell Projects gets a couple of nods in New York Times review of the Outsider Art Fair today

The Outsider Art Fair is on this long weekend in NYC at 7 West 34th Street location. My husband Kerry's outsider/folk art business Maxwell Projects has a booth there, and today got a nice mention in the New York Times review of the fair by Martha Schwendener. Follow the link below to the story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/arts/design/12outsider.html?ref=design

Aaron Birnbaum's "Two peacocks in  tree"

"Outsider art also accommodates the late bloomer. Aaron Birnbaum, a retired New York tailor, started painting at 65. His lovely “Two Peacocks in Tree” from 1985 at Maxwell Projects is framed by painted pieces of a wooden crib found in the street." writes Ms. Schwendener in the N Y Times.

Gallery owner/director Kerry Schuss of Maxwell Projects and KS Art in his O.A.F booth.

Artist Chris Murray's NYC inspired artworks line Maxwell Projects booth walls. 

Artist Chris Murray's NYC cab work on paper at Maxwell Projects booth.

Opening night benefit event on Thursday, February 10th drew a wonderful crowd.

Kerry and Monica at the benefit opening night of The Outsider Art Fair.

Artwork from around the show:

Howard Finster sculpture.

Carved shoe soles and bicycle seats.

Many wonderful examples of collage work from different outsider artists.

"Four Seasons"

The Electric Pencil  yellow house drawing.

Miami Art Fair--NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) at Deauville

Toured the NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) art fair in Miami Dec 3-5th.

Here are some of the different booths Max and I saw.

above: Crawling red-suited figure at Workplace Gallery booth # 315.

        

Max in a Nada co-winning Best Booth.

above: Max in Wen Fang's painted knife display at La B.A.N.K booth.

above: Wacky science experiment pieces, at Museum 52 booth seem to have big boy-appeal. 

above: One of the two winning Best Booth winners, Kate Werble Gallery, NYC of the Nada art fair.

Max sees through sculptures.

Visiting dad in KS Art booth featuring Bill Adams work. 

left: Director of NADA Heather Hubbs (old friend of Max's), Max and Lisa Cooley, gallery owner Lisa Cooley, NYC (another old friend of Max's)

---Monica Forrestall

Gallery of Rock: James Hamilton's first show of photographs of music world luminaries at KS Art

The room was packed with a downtown musicians, film makers, writers and editors on November 12th, all gathered to celebrate and pay homage to one of the (THE?) greatest documentary photographer of the American rock scene, James Hamilton who opened his first exhibition of B & W photographs of music world luminaries at KS Art in Tribeca.  This uber glam party was in conjunction with the launching of his monograph published by Ecstatic Peace Library. All of the images included in this book were edited by musician Thurston Moore, who working closely over a period of weeks with James. The exhibition was curated by Elisabeth Biondi, editor of images at The New Yorker.




The scene:

Book editor Thurston Moore chats with writer Catherine Greenman, Kim Gordon and film director Tamra Davis. 

Below: Mary Barone, Artnet writer looks at James monograph.

Kerry Schuss (left) and curator of this exhibition, New Yorker Images Editor, Elisabeth Biondi at the opening.

above: Kerry Schuss and exhibition curator Elisabeth Biondi.

---Monica Forrestall

R.M. Fischer at KS Art at The Armory Show 2010

Kerry Schuss and Sadie Laska hang out in the booth KS Art.

KS Art was again accepted this year into the prestigious Armory Show at Pier 94 in New York City, this year to display the new sculpture work of R.M. Fischer. The show runs March 4th to 7th, 2010.

This year, 289 international galleries from all over the world feature the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

A new sculpture by R.M. Fisher dominates the booth! 

Kerry Schuss and Monica Forrestall in KS Art Booth at The Armory Show 2010.


Here's a snapshot of other interesting 3-D work in the show. 

Jonathan Seliger's stacking of oversized take out containers.

A mobile of reference books.

Bird cage of porcelain bird figures attached to a metal armature.

Major Bloomburg did a radio show announcing that the art fairs and events that run over these 5 days draw 60,000 people to Manhattan to look at art! The entire city is talking about art, it is so exciting to see people so excited about looking at art.

--Monica Forrestall

Tom Forrestall and his family geneology by film maker Chuck Lapp

Researching, while writing magazine articles, always takes one down interesting paths. One can learn so much about topics you never knew much about. Part of an upcoming magazine feature, that I am working on, will involve the Forrestall family history and how they came to be in Nova Scotia. Our family history is a little sketchy pre-1800's, but up till then there is a wealth of documentation that exists on where we came from, lived, married, had children and passed away. My aunt Kitty Forrestall (my dad, Tom Forrestall's younger sister) had done a lot of research and has the most amazing memory of family folklore
above: Tom Forrestall, Chuck Lapp, Bob                                               and facts. My aunt Winkie DeVries (Patricia, Tom Forrestall's older sister) has a great sense of the family history. Both of my aunts are extraordinary story tellers: humorous, detailed and thorough. But well known Canadian filmmaker Chuck Lapp, a member of the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative, who has been working on a documentary on our dad for the last couple of years, has taken all of the family folklore and fueled by his passion for geneology (and need to research the Forrestall background for his film) has amassed some fascinating family history.  Chuck manages, without any family emotion, to sift through fact and fiction. And he has been very generous with sharing his research. Our long talk today was something I wanted to share. The Forrestall family are so lucky to have so many talented, creative, kind hearted and generous people in our lives.

In July 09, when Canadian filmmaker Chuck Lapp and his cameraman Bob traveled down to the Annapolis Valley with dad to do some filming at Three Oaks (our family summer home) I hosted a barbecue for them at our summer house.
                                              

Tom Forrestall, Kerry Schuss, Max Schuss, Monica Forrestall

Chuck Lapp, Kerry Schuss, Monica Forrestall; Tom Forrestall, Max Schuss with baseball bat.

                            Walk on the path to our Karsdale beach; dad, Kerry Schuss, Chuck Lapp & Max.