Kerry Schuss Gallery

About the Gallery
Kerry Schuss Gallery opened at its present location on Leonard Street in Tribeca in 1998. Over the years the gallery has developed a unique and idiosyncratic program showing a wide range of artists and sensibilities. This multi-generational diverse group of artists, including both trained and self-taught, range in age from Alice Mackler (b.1931) and Robert Moskowitz (b.1935) to the youngest artist, Julian Kent in his early 20's. The gallery specializes in introducing new work, or previously unseen historic work in thoughtfully installed exhibitions.

About the Presentation
Expanding upon her recent solo exhibition at Kerry Schuss, Mary Carlson’s solo presentation for Independent imagines an immersive garden of lightness, with spiraling vines, flora, and birds. Relating to  artistic motifs that date back 2000 years, Carlson considers how both the line of history and humanity’s connection to nature usurp any specific place or moment. While continuing her exploration with porcelain and metal, Carlson will add laminated bent wood to her artistic materials, the handmade techniques enabling accidents and random chance to emerge as unpredictable aesthetic flourishes. Finding comfort in the vastness and timelessness of beauty, Carlson considers how this force is greater than she, the artist, manifesting here as an expansive installation that envelops and transports the viewer.