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

Kerry's show "Scruffy" gets a GREAT review in the New York Observer today

At the small, surprisingly harmonious group show currently hanging at KS Art on Leonard Street, the elephant in the room is the figurative image. But actually, it’s a mammoth—not only because the show is called “Scruffy,” or because the image began as a cave painting, but because it functions here like an exhumed fossil, reconceived in a world it never imagined.

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http://www.galleristny.com/2011/11/avoiding-the-subject-‘scruffy’-at-ks-art-and-‘walking-forward-running-past’-at-art-in-general/

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

The drawings of Bill Adams at KS Art booth is named one of the 11 most original artworks at the art fairs by Black Book magazine

Art writer Nick Haramis of Black Book magazine named Bill Adams drawings as one of the 11 most original artworks at NADA, Miami's most original art fair.

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/the-11-most-original-artworks-at-nada-basels-most-original-art-fair/23733/P9

Congrats Bill and his gallery KS Art!

--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