CANTILEVERS
KATY FISCHER / MARIE LORENZ
July 11th - August 23rd, 2026
Opening reception July 11th 4-7 pm, 2026
“The passions have been sufficiently interpreted; the point now is to discover new ones.”
-Guy Debord, The Situationist International, 1957
Roundabouts Now is delighted to present CANTILEVERS, a two-person exhibition of new sculpture by Katy Fischer and Marie Lorenz.
The exhibition is the fulcrum between two practices fueled by deep exploration, one pointed outward, the other inward. Both artists, who are longtime friends, share a formative history in the printmaking department at RISD in the mid-'90s and are now accomplished sculptors. Lorenz merges performance, printmaking, and sculpture. Her practice is rooted in an ongoing project she began in 2005 called the "Tide and Current Taxi." In boats she hand-builds, she brings friends and strangers to locations around New York Harbor, and on the way experiences New York City from a macroscopic standpoint; her work telescopes from her voyages in an ever-expanding orbit of discovery, manifesting in large sculptures and prints. The flotsam on the shores and waterways of the city connects her to the global pollution stream but also to exciting locations hidden in plain sight. For this exhibition, she created a fleet of bobbing kinetic sculptures at the prestigious Kohler Residency that take the form of steel armatures reminiscent of museum displays. They are metronome-like pendulums that balance a set of ceramic casts of objects from her voyages: construction debris, driftwood, and other familiar things gathered using her own inner compass. Like a mudlark, she collects what draws her and brings it into the viewer's sphere of focus.
Fischer, also a printmaker, ceramicist, and sculptor, explores within the hermetic petri dish of her own studio. Her practice is one of obsessive iteration and experimentation, in the spirit of which she has created a monumental collection of looping script-like forms that drift across the gallery wall like a cryptic inscription. Reminiscent of her heralded commission for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, this work situates viewers in a new world while allowing them to soak in the meditative details of each unique part. Also included in the exhibition are a series of new mosaic artworks that are born of her two year immersion into the approaches and motifs of classical mosaics. Informed by the double reverse Ravenna method, a 1,500 year old mosaic technique and the spatial logic of the “Roman rules”, her mosaics serve as archeological artifacts from our own precarious time.
KATY FISCHER is a New York–based visual artist whose work includes ceramic wall installations, porcelain and glass mosaics, and collaged works on paper. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at New Release Gallery in New York, Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, Lamp Gallery in Tokyo, Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, and Vedanta Gallery in Chicago. Solo exhibitions include Finders, Keepers, Losers and Weepers at 356 Mission in Los Angeles and Phrases, a site-specific ceramic installation presented at Frieze, New York in 2023. Fischer's work has been featured in The New York Times and The Boston Globe and is held in numerous public and corporate collections, including Fidelity, Progressive, Capital One, The Cleveland Clinic, and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. In 2017, she was commissioned by MTA Arts & Design to design the mosaics for the Bay Ridge Avenue R train station in Brooklyn, New York. Recent public art projects include two mosaics commissioned by Art in Embassies for the U.S. Consulate in Nogales, Mexico, and a four-panel glass artwork commissioned through New York City’s Public Art for Public Schools, opening in August 2026.
MARIE LORENZ is a visual artist based in New York City. In her ongoing project, The Tide and Current Taxi, Lorenz navigates with participants through New York waterways in boats she designs and builds, using tidal currents for propulsion. Recent solo exhibitions include Confluence at the Center for Contemporary Art in Montbéliard, France, Drift Tilt at Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, and Undertow at Watershed Art & Ecology in Chicago, Illinois. Lorenz's work has been featured in group exhibitions, including Shifting Shorelines at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts in New York and Women Reframe the American Landscape at the Thomas Cole Museum in Catskill, New York. Lorenz was recently awarded the 2026 Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2023, Lorenz received Creative Capital and National Endowment for the Arts grants for Newton Odyssey, a collaborative opera performed along Newtown Creek in New York City. She holds a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. from Yale.