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SUMMARY:Lincoln Perry & David Summers: On Reflection
DESCRIPTION:Press ReleaseExhibition WorksInstallation Shots\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Opening with the Artists: Saturday\, February 28\, 4-6PM\nLes Yeux du Monde is pleased to announce On Reflection\, a two-person exhibition featuring new work by Lincoln Perry and David Summers. The exhibition opens with a reception on Saturday\, February 28th\, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM\, and will be on view through Saturday\, April 4th\, 2026. Together\, these artists’ work offers a nuanced meditation on reflection—both as a reflexive encounter between the viewer and the viewed\, and as the process through which seeing is refracted into image\, memory\, and thought. \nLincoln Perry presents a new series of watercolors set within museums\, depicting visitors as they encounter masterworks of art. Some viewers study closely\, others pass by without a glance\, while still others linger in moments of intimacy\, distraction\, or conversation. Perry’s works highlight the dynamic relationship between viewer and artwork\, capturing the museum as a space of reflection in multiple senses. Reflection becomes social as well as personal as Perry creates a mirror between viewers and painting\, illuminating art’s ability to offer back to us something of our own human experience. He writes\, “I’ve been moved by all the art depicted; our often reprehensible species can feel pride in the creations I’ve spent my life looking at and trying to emulate.” By positioning us as observers of other observers\, Perry creates a double-reflection: we are at once the audience in the room and the subject on the paper\, effectively turning the viewer’s own gaze into the final\, essential element of the composition.  His works convey the implicit connection between artist\, artwork\, and viewer\, the endlessly varied ways we see\, and what looking can reveal about ourselves.  \nDavid Summers shares new still life paintings that engage reflection as both an optical and philosophical phenomenon. By studying transparent and reflective forms\, Summers’ paintings capture the elusive properties of light and offer a window into the nature of sight itself. His work deeply considers seeing as a physical encounter with reflected color—an experience that only becomes thought and understanding through the mind’s own act of second reflection. Summers connects the exhibition’s title to John Locke\, who described sensation and reflection as the two “fountains of knowledge.” Summers writes: “We are much more familiar in our empiricist habits with the first ‘fountain\,’ but for Locke\, reflection was the way in which the mind is able to discover itself by seeing what consciousness does or has done with sensation.” For Summers\, painting itself is a reflection\, an immediate response in which an aspect of individual and human meaning may be made clear\, or brought into focus. In their quiet detail\, his works invite sustained inquiry into the mysteries of sight\, making both the initial reflection of light and its subsequent reflection in painting visible to the viewer. \nTogether\, Perry and Summers approach reflection from complementary angles: one through meta-narrative scenes of observation\, the other through rigorous studies of light and thought. On Reflection invites viewers to consider how our experience is shaped not only by what we see\, but by what the mind makes of seeing\, and the endless reflections that create our shared reality.  \nLincoln Perry attended Columbia University\, received his MFA from Queens College\, and has been a professor of art at the universities of New Hampshire\, Arkansas\, and Virginia. In addition to his work as an esteemed easel painter\, Perry has completed major murals at Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia; Lincoln Square\, 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue\, and One Penn Plaza in Washington\, D.C.; the Federal Courthouse in Tallahassee\, Florida; and the Met Life Building in St. Louis\, Missouri. He is the author of Seeing Like an Artist\, Lincoln Perry’s Charlottesville\, and a selection of his watercolors illustrates a 2012 edition of Henry David Thoreau’s essay “October\, or Autumnal Tints.” Perry’s work is also featured in the PBS documentary\, The Murals of Lincoln Perry. \nDavid Summers holds a B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from Yale University. A distinguished art historian as well as a celebrated painter\, he served as the William R. Kenan\, Jr. Professor of Art Theory and Italian Renaissance Art at the University of Virginia from 1984 to 2015\, following appointments at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pittsburgh. Summers was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 as both an art historian and an exhibiting painter\, and has written multiple books\, including the influential\, 700+ page\, Real Spaces: World Art History\, and his more recent manifesto for the Louvre Abu Dhabi\, A World Vision of Art.  \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Works to be posted after 2/28 exhibition opening. To request a preview\, email info@lydmgallery.com. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Installation shots to be posted after 2/28 exhibition opening.
URL:https://www.lydmgallery.com/events/lincoln-perry-david-summers-on-reflection/
LOCATION:Les Yeux Du Monde\, 841 Wolf Trap Rd\, Charlottesville\, VA\, 22911\, United States
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SUMMARY:Asa Jackson - Paradise Found: Where Heaven and Earth Meet
DESCRIPTION:Press ReleaseExhibition WorksInstallation Shots\n				\n				\n					\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Les Yeux du Monde is pleased to present Paradise Found: Where Heaven and Earth Meet\, an inaugural solo exhibition of work by new gallery artist Asa Jackson. The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday\, April 10\, from 5–7PM\, with remarks from the artist at 6PM. In his newest body of work\, Jackson turns toward landscape as a site of spiritual inquiry\, interrogating the boundary between the physical and the ethereal. \nKnown for a creative practice that explores textile as an anthropological record\, Jackson recontextualizes found materials from disparate countries\, time periods\, and personal histories\, transforming fabric into visual narrative. Using pattern\, repetition\, and tactility\, his fiber-based work reflects on time\, collective consciousness\, and the ways in which personal origins inform present understandings. \nThe works in this exhibition continue Jackson’s ongoing series\, The King’s Cord\, which investigates the materiality and symbolism of corduroy. Referencing the historical translation of the French Corde du Roi—or “Cord of the King”—the title positions the textile as a charged medium through which Jackson examines notions of sovereignty. The series meditates on autonomy as it pertains to both outer and inner life–with particular emphasis on the inner\, self-governed kingdoms of the mind. \nIn Paradise Found\, elements of nature anchor a visual language that Jackson creates to explore the interior landscape of the human spirit. Works in the exhibition employ a two-point perspective\, serving simultaneously as expansive horizons and intricate topographies of an imagined kingdom. Rather than depicting specific locales\, they represent vistas of the mind—visions drawn from an inner realm in which mountains\, temples\, starry skies\, and shifting waters coexist within a single symbolic terrain. Together\, these works function as maps that trace the contours of a world where the terrestrial and the transcendent meet. \nPer the artist: \n“These landscapes point toward the experience of returning to oneself—an awareness of oneness that many traditions describe as realization\, peace\, or communion with the divine. \nIn this sense\, imagination is not separate from reality but the catalyst through which reality is formed. The inner and outer worlds mirror one another; the landscapes of the mind shape the world we inhabit.” \nThe title of the exhibition references John Milton’s Paradise Lost\, which tells the story of humanity’s fall from grace. In contrast\, Paradise Found imagines a return. Jackson’s landscapes become a pathway back to unity\, suggesting that paradise is not a distant place\, but a state of awareness discovered within—the inner terrain where heaven and earth meet. \nAsa Jackson studied sociology at Boston University before establishing a career as both a celebrated artist and influential arts leader. His practice has earned international recognition\, highlighted by features with Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery of Luxembourg at EXPO Chicago and his 2025 European debut at Art Brussels. Jackson’s work is held in numerous significant private and public collections\, including that of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts\, the Mint Museum\, and the Rockwell Museum. A recent acquisition by the University of Virginia’s Contemplative Sciences Center marks another significant milestone for the artist. The works in Paradise Found originate from the same series as this institutional commission\, and share a deep conceptual connection to the mission of the Contemplative Sciences Center. As an arts leader\, Jackson is the former director of 670 Gallery and co-founder of the CAN Foundation in Newport News\, a nonprofit dedicated to building sustainable careers for artists. He currently serves as the President and CEO of the McColl Center\, the prestigious artist residency program in Charlotte\, North Carolina. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Exhibition works to be posted following 4/10 opening. To inquire for a preview\, email info@lydmgallery.com. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Installation shots to be posted following 4/10 opening.
URL:https://www.lydmgallery.com/events/asa-jackson-paradise-found-where-heaven-and-earth-meet/
LOCATION:Les Yeux Du Monde\, 841 Wolf Trap Rd\, Charlottesville\, VA\, 22911\, United States
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