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

R.M.Fischer's show at KS Art gallery gets a Fantastic review in Art in America.

The artist R.M. Fischer's show gets a fantastic review in Art in America. Congratulations R.M! And Kerry for designing such a powerful show.
In the words of the critic, Stephen Maine "The artist’s imagistic wit embraces Claes Oldenburg, teddy bears, lap quilts, inflatable sex toys and the antic bar scene in the original Star Wars movie." 

The perfect prelude to The Armory Show, which opens this Wednesday and will feature R.M. Fischer's new work.


http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/rm-fischer/

--Monica Forrestall

R.M. Fischer new sculpture opens at KS Art Gallery

An amazing show of sculpture this week by artist R.M. Fischer. The opening on October 29th was packed with artists of every generation, curators, friends and admirers of his work, who have been waiting to see this body of work which announced a distinctive, fresh direction for the New York based artist. 

To quote from the gallery press release: "Breaking with the functionalism of his earlier industrial assemblages and public sculpture, Fischer's new combinations of soft and hard forms evoke softly armored figures. Organic shapes crafted out of colorful vinyl, felt, and upholstery and sewn together with thread to suggest body parts. These seemingly upbeat, cartoon-inspired figures are tattooed, pierced, and adorned with metal amulets. Fischer's combination of the soft and the hard elements create a replicating army of fleshy machines suggestive of what William S. Burroughs called the human body: namely, "the soft machine". Fischer replaces utilitarian functionality with a Pop palette and playful figures and forms. The inclusion of orifices, tongues and other fetishes pushes the toy-like sensibility to a polymorphous perversity. This turn of the screw, at once mischievous and more menacing, explores the dark mechanics of popular culture and its sexual underbelly."

                  

R.M.Fischer, his daughter Dena and wife, Patti Page.     Tray of RMF initial cookies Patti made.

This is R.M. Fischer's first one-person exhibition here. For the past twenty-five years, Fischer has been blurring the lines between art, architecture and design. Fischer is acclaimed for his monumental site-specific public art commissions and he has had over 30 solo exhibitions, including an exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1984. His work is included in numerous public collections including, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Carnegie Museum of Fine Art.