LIVINGSTON MANOR — Catskill Art Space (CAS) is pleased to present a three-person exhibition featuring Brett De Palma, RM Fischer, and Judy Glantzman, on view September 5 through October 24.

The exhibition opens with an Artist Talk on Saturday, September 5 from 3–4pm in the River Gallery, followed by a reception from 4–5pm in the Main Street-facing galleries. Working across sculpture, painting, and works on paper, the exhibition brings together three artists whose practices span decades of making — rooted in process, material discovery, and an abiding belief in the expressive and revelatory power of art.

RM Fischer returns to early works stored in an art storage shed on his Catskill Mountain property — photographic deconstructions from the early 1970s that laid the groundwork for the lamp sculptures and public art for which he is widely known. Beginning with images drawn from popular culture, sociology textbooks, and travel brochures, Fischer constructed objects that responded to and transformed their source material, a process that remains at the core of his practice.

Judy Glantzman approaches painting as a playground, her canvases populated by invented characters treated with utmost sincerity. For Glantzman, paint becomes radiant and remains an object simultaneously — the dichotomy between illusion and materiality beating at the heart of her practice. In 2005 these paintings were finished; twenty years later, she has returned to them, reworking each canvas in a return to the playground of a younger self. Her paintings are accompanied by ceramic works that explore subjects of a similar nature, each at once undone and luminously resolved.

Brett De Palma constructs sardonic, psychedelic visual puzzles that resist easy resolution, embracing the raw, the funky, and the deliberately impure as tools for truth-telling. His compositions hold contradictory elements in productive tension — hard edges and soft forms, humor and darkness, sensuality and roughness — standing in for real life in all its quirkiness. Together, the three artists share a commitment to discovery over certainty, to standing before the work and finding out what it wants to be.

Long-term installations on view include James Turrell’s light installation Avaar (1982) and two site-specific wall drawings from Sol LeWitt, as well as solo presentations of well-established artists from the local area, Francis Cape (through 2027) and Ellen Brooks (through 2027). Catskill Art Space is located at 48 Main St. Livingston Manor.