Season Fair Announces Special Projects by Kat Quay and Jim Schatz

Two site-specific installations that explore the architectures of memory, presence, and liberation.

Detroit, MI — August 24, 2025 — Season Fair is pleased to announce its inaugural Special Projects program, featuring Memory Palace by Kat Quay and Lion’s Roar, Lover’s Whisper by Jim Schatz. These large-scale, site-specific works extend beyond the boundaries of traditional gallery and artist booths to engage audiences in immersive, conceptual environments.

In Memory Palace, Kat Quay interrogates the duality of memory as a technological construct and human experience. Constructed from server racks, LED lights, mirrors, plexiglass, and perforated metal, the installation builds an architecture that is both structural and allegorical. Plexi levels, layered in the serial language of server rack shelving, create grids that appear to scroll like code, only to reveal architectural plans drawn from Quay’s personal dwellings in New York, Austin, and Metro Detroit. By embedding autobiography into systems of abstraction, Quay exposes the tension between intimacy and depersonalization, and asks how meaning can be retrieved from memory stripped of its context.

In Lion’s Roar, Lover’s Whisper, Jim Schatz presents a site-specific stoneware installation composed of 100 hand-formed tiles. The work embodies themes of reverence, erotic honesty, and radical acceptance, positioning queer male embodiment as both sacred and transformative. Through its scale and materiality, the installation operates as a site of ritual and intimacy, where stoneware becomes both vessel and surface, grounding ephemeral gestures into lasting form. By reclaiming erotic energy as sacred rather than scandalous, Schatz exposes the tension between visibility and erasure, and affirms queer eroticism as a force of vitality, resilience, and healing.

All artwork is available for sale.

Location:

Michigan Central
2001 15th Street
Detroit, MI 48216

Fair Hours:

• Thursday, September 25: VIP Preview, 4 – 8 p.m.

• Friday, September 26: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

• Saturday, September 27: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

• Sunday, September 28: 12 – 6 p.m.

About Season Fair

Season is part exhibition, part commercial art fair, featuring leading galleries alongside Detroit's most promising artists.

Our mission is three-fold:

• Cultivate a dynamic marketplace for contemporary art, connecting world-class artists and exhibitors with collectors at every level—whether new, established, or emerging.

• Provide a powerful platform for Detroit-based artists to connect with influential collectors, curators, galleries, and art critics representing the broader art world.

• Support exceptional local galleries priced out of traditional art fair participation.

Season Fair traces its roots to Detroit Art Week, a citywide initiative launched in 2018 to celebrate Detroit-based contemporary artists, galleries, and cultural institutions. Organized by Detroit Art Week, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and produced by Olu & Company, the program presented two acclaimed editions in 2018 and 2019. While public programming has since concluded, its mission—to advance equity and access in the arts—lives on through a fundraising partnership with Season Fair.