Kerry Schuss Gallery

Anonymous, Mitchell Algus, Harold Ancart, Alex Bag, Leland Bell, Aaron Birnbaum, Josh Brand, Freddie Brice, Douglas Brown, Hannah Buonaguro, Robin Cameron, Mary Carlson, Matt Creed, Derrick Alexis Coard , Ele D’Artagnan, Pete Deevakul, Anne Doran, Dylan Eastgaard, Josh Feigin, Nadia Foerster, Glenna Foerster, Monica Forrestall, Silvianna Goldsmith, Robin Graubard, Ray Hamilton, Rand Hardy, Dmitri Hertz, Eric Hoyles, Chip Hughes, Hunter Hunt Hendrix, Miles Huston, Daniel Innes , Ken Johnson, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Kate Levant, George Mandel, Adam Marnie, Billy Miller, Zoë Mpeletzikas, Sophy Naess, Eric Palgon, Steven Parrino, PAZOS, Nikholis Planck, Adam Revington, Penny Rimbaud, Sven Sachsalber, Rafael Sánchez, Ben Schumacher, Max Schumann, Kerry Schuss, Will Stewart, Steel Stillman, TARWUK, John Tremblay , Janice Turner, Jocko Weyland, Ma Yo

Anarchy of the Imagination is the title of a book of interview notes written by Fassbinder. This show is not a tribute to him even though I like his movies. And I definitely like the energy he had to make stuff. This show is a celebration of the Imagination! This 69 work show mixes friends and family of mine with artists I met through Kerry - whose work I admire. This show mixes different scenes together trying to connect different imaginations and creations to show different stuff I’m interested in. I thought to install the show like a “wave." I swim everyday now in the morning and like the feel of the ocean and the current. This huge force that you're not in control of but you can move your way through. I like when my imagination over takes me and comes in like a wave and something comes from it. It’s indescribable but a great feeling—a rush. It’s exciting to see so much work together created by people from different places, showing their imaginations. Kerry and I worked lots on trying to lay this all out—showing things ping-ponging off each other. I think it worked out really good! I wanted the feeling of an uncontrollable force of energy with planets and waves and air all moving around. So that is what this is.

Funny—a side thing. When I was a teenager in Newmarket, Ontario, there was a free newsprint publication a guy started called "Imagination Magazine." This was extremely exciting because it was a free paper, like NOW and EYE that you could get in Toronto, which were just amazing—full of content and sources of information, like the VOICE—and it seemed very exciting that Newmarket was getting something like that. Ha! It only lasted maybe a couple issues—I hope I still have them. I tried to intern with the guy. Didn’t go anywhere, but I did steal a newspaper box for him that we painted and put back on the street so he could have a box for his paper. I was making zines then and really wanted to get into the magazine world—that never really happened. I do have my press RATSTAR now, that's a mix of different artists and many are in this show. -Ryan Foerster

 click on link below to read a poem by Hannah Buonaguro.