Tom Fairs / David Schoerner Woods
January 21 - February 25, 2023
installation images selected works thumbnails
Tom Fairs Kimble Wood 4-4-04
pencil on paper
5.5 x 4.125 in ( 14 x 10.5 cm)
Press Release
Tom Fairs / David Schoerner
Woods
January 21 - February 25th, 2023
The subject of trees, in black-and-white, unites artwork in two mediums in this new exhibition at Kerry Schuss Gallery. This show combines the small pencil drawings by British artist Tom Fairs (1925-2007) drawn plein air in small pads in Hampstead Heath, with photographs by New York artist David Schoerner (b. 1984) of trees with birdhouses, taken on annual visits to his grandparents farm in rural Sweden.
A concurrent exhibition of paintings by Tom Fairs at Van Doren Waxter, New York runs through February 11, 2023
Tom Fairs (1925-2007) was born in London, England and lived in Hampstead, England. He studied at the Hornsey School of Art from 1948 -1950 and at the Royal College of Art from 1950 - 1954. He taught fine art and stage design from 1967 to 1987 at the Central School of Art and Design (now Central Saint Martin’s) in London, England. His work has been on view in solo exhibitions internationally, such as Tom Fairs (2012) at The Modern Institute in Glasgow, Scotland and Tom Fairs: Homage to Bonnard (2008) at The Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, Yorkshire and The New Grafton Gallery in London, England. He received solo exhibitions in New York City at Kerry Schuss Gallery (2011-2015) and Van Doren Waxter (2017-2023). Fairs has been included in numerous group exhibitions, such as Drawn Together Again (2019) at Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY; and Outside (2016) at Karma, Amagansett, NY, curated by Matthew Higgs. His work has been reviewed and featured in publications such as Artforum, Bomb, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.
David Schoerner (b. 1984, Reno, NV) is a New York-based artist who works primarily with photography. In 2007 he founded Hassla Books and has since published more than eighty books and worked with over sixty artists. Recent exhibitions include Coffee at Situations, New York (2019) and Sculptures: a Project by Erik Lindman with Photographs by David Schoerner at Emmanuel Barbault, New York (2019).