Brett De Palma
RM Fischer
Judy Glantzman

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, 2026. 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.

About the Artists

RM Fischer (b. 1947, New York, NY) is a sculptor whose practice spans assemblage, public art, and works on paper. Known in the 1980s and 1990s for creating lamp sculptures from wholesale kitchen equipment and various fasteners, Fischer's work evolved from an early practice of deconstructing photographic images drawn from popular culture His renowned public art works appear in cities across the United States and Japan. His work is held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Tamayo Museo Cultural Center for Contemporary Art, Mexico City.

Judy Glantzman has lived and worked in New York City since 1978, and moved to Chatham, NY in 2022. A member of the East Village art scene in the early and mid-1980s, she was represented by Civilian Warfare Gallery and Gracie Mansion Gallery, and is currently represented by Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York. Glantzman is a National Academician at the National Academy of Design and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman, Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, and the New York Foundation for the Arts award.

Brett De Palma is a painter and educator based in Nyack and Roscoe, New York. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts award (1988) and Rockland County Executive Visual Artist of the Year (2013), De Palma has exhibited nationally and internationally, with work held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Permanent Collection of the Hotel Chelsea, the Eli Broad Family Foundation, among others. His work has been written about in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, and Flash Art. He has been on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New York City, for thirty-five years.