Brooklyn-based Rob Fischer draws deeply on the vernacular forms and architecture of his native Minnesota in his sculptural installations, painted photographs and paintings. His most ambitious to date, Fischer’s project addresses the tension between transience and memory and the specifics of site. His hybrid sculptures are amalgamations of parts (transport vehicles, including boats, airplane parts, flatbed trucks, and dumpsters) that have seemingly discordant functions. Made of industrial materials like steel and glass, the sculptures remain at once utilitarian and intensely personal, elucidating a deeply human and personal relationship to space, place, and origin. They explore both our desire to escape—our eternal wanderlust and need for mobility—and our contradictory impulse to root ourselves to an exact place.