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February 2010
Lydia Gasman
The New York Times. "Lydia Csato Gasman, Picasso Scholar, Dies at 84," by Roberta Smith, February 6, 2010.
"Lydia Csato Gasman, an art historian known for her groundbreaking scholarship on the work of Picasso, died on Jan. 15 in Charlottesville, Va. She was 84 and lived in Charlottesville..." Read more >
Lydia Gasman
C-Ville. "Works by Lydia Gasman, who died last month, show at Les Yeux du Monde: As it must, the show goes on, by
Andres Cedermark, Issue #22.06: 2/9/-2/15/2010.
“I went after last week’s snowfall to Les Yeux du Monde, the gallery Lyn Warren runs on the property of her Albemarle County home. She met me in a Jeep at the mailbox at the bottom of her driveway, and shuttled me up the snow-covered path to the home she shares with husband Russ Warren, where the W.G. Clark-designed gallery, covered in rust, stands. I went to see for myself an exhibit Lyn had arranged, called “Philosophers and Painters,” which features works by David Summers—a Renaissance expert at UVA and painter on the side, whose clever studies in light reference artists from Charles Wright to Caravaggio—but mostly the recent works of Lydia Gasman, a renowned Picasso scholar and popular professor of art history at UVA who died last month at the age of 84.”
”Contained in the exhibit is a series of 16 works that Gasman painted in 2009 alone, the last year of her life,…" Read more >
December 2009
Russ Warren
C-ville Weekly, "From Magic Mountain;" Russ Warren; Les Yeux du Monde, "He's a "Magic' man." Issue #21.50 :: 12/15/2009 - 12/21/2009
The title of Russ Warren’s show at Les Yeux du Monde, From Magic Mountain, alludes to the early twentieth century novel by Thomas Mann, wherein a young shipbuilder-to-be heads to a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps and winds up staying for seven years in a haze of indolent revelation. The experience of viewing Warren’s paintings is similar to Hans Castorp’s arrival: There is much to contemplate, and you wind up staying in Lyn Bolen Warren’s amazing gallery space, high up off of Route 20 with beautiful views of the Blue Ridge, for longer than you had intended.
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September 2009
LYDM Gallery
C-ville Weekly, "While we're talking art openings...." by Brendan Fitzgerald, Issue # 21:37, September 15, 2009
"Feedback bumped into artist Russ Warren and Les Yeux du Monde director Lyn Warren at the Bayly, and the couple shared that their new exhibition space–a W.G. Clark-designed building that will function as both a gallery and studio space for Russ–will open to the public on Friday, October 9. The first show? A collection of works by U.Va. Art Department chair Dean Dass. Looking forward to it, you two."
Dean Dass
Dean Dass just returned from Helsinki Finland where he participated in the 12th International Print Triennial at the Jyväskylä Art Museum. His collaborative group of artists, the "Printmakers Left" presented material from the second of their three volume project, Exquisite History (ex:hi), The New World. The book was published by the University of Virginia Press and is available through the gallery. The inaugural exhibition of the new Les Yeux du Monde will feature Dass's new paintings and prints, many of which also were inspired by his time in Finland and in the Lapland above the Arctic Circle.
John Grant
John Grant will have an exhibition of his latest series, Fairytales and Reveries at Second Street Gallery in October. For this show he is taking his process a step further, mounting his works on boxes which are then flood-coated with resin. The highly contemporary, frameless, mirror finish adds a sense of depth and drama to the imagery. The more traditional prints on paper which some will prefer, are available through LYdM. A portion of the proceeds will go to the non-profit Second Street Gallery.
Shelby Fischer
Shelby Fischer is busy as well. Check out her installation, L'esprit de l'escalier outside the V. Earl Dickenson Building at Piedmont Virginia Community College opening on September 11 through November 4. She will also be the featured artist's speaker at Second Street Gallery on October 6. She will also have a piece in the one night only exhibition at PVCC, on December 11, Let There be Light.
Robert Tarbell
Robert Tarbell's new work, Smoke Rings, is on view through October 31 at Gallery Imperarto, Baltimore.
November 2008
Sam Abell
Sam Abell will discuss his new book, The Life of a Photograph, at LYDM Gallery's Collectors Club as well as public slide show and talk on November 24 at the gallery. The book was recently reviewed; "Life Lit Up is the Essence of Photography", Daily Progress, November 16, 2008; by David A. Maurer who wrote:
"In more than 50 years of taking photographs, nearly 35 of them as a staff photographer for National Geographic, Abell has captured myriad memorable images. To his thinking only two have reached perfection, one of them being what has become widely known as the “Red Bucket” picture.
This piercing photograph, along with nearly 200 others from Abell’s public as well as personal body of work, appear in the just released book, The Life of a Photograph. Published by National Geographic, Abell’s words and images combine to answer the elusive question of what creates the spark that gives life to a photograph." Read more >
Nicole Noelle
Les Yeux du Monde hosted a holiday trunk show, Sabbatical Travels, featuring the new collection of Nicole Noelle's jewelry. Nicole traveled in Europe this spring for 4 months collecting wonderful materials for her signature pieces. A review of Nicole's recent designs appeared in The Daily Progress, Thursday, November 20, 2008; "Trunk show treasures have a string" by David Maurer.
"When I started to feel a need to do something creative I started making jewelry. Fairly quickly I knew I wanted it to be more than a hobby. When Lyn [Bolen Warren] opened Les Yeux du Monde, I brought in my jewelry.
"The art was going up and the jewelry just fit. So for eight years I've had my own little space for my jewelry and it has been wonderful."
Read more >
October 2008
Cary Brown
This is the last chance to see Cary Brown's exhibition, The Birds Sang Light and Other Messages of Wonder at the Washington Cancer Institute in Washington D.C. through November 4. Thirty-five % of sales will benefit the Smith Farm Center for the Healing Arts' artist-in-residence program.
Shelby Fischer
Laura Parson reviewed Shelby Fischer's exhibition, Eternal Now, on view at LYDM Gallery through November 1 in the October 16 issue of The Hook. She writes: "Meticulously composed, Fischer's often humorous works visually express her own mental ramblings, which wander through nursery rhymes, emotional quandaries, supernatural experiences, and spiritual speculation. The clipped images and small objects she incorporates are often laden with nostalgia. What emerges are fantastical moments of magical realism, in which humans and animals often interact as equals and the miraculous is commonplace.".
Anne Chesnut
Through November 20, gallery artist Anne Chesnut's work is included in Drawn to Washington at Pyramid Atlantic and co-presented by The Washington Print Club. Shelly Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, write in her exhibition essay: “Interestingly, both monotype and relief techniques require a directness in mark making that belies the latest printmaking technologies involving digital formats. One could easily perceive this as a conscious reaction against technological developments, however, may gastritis, such as Anne Chesnut (whose digital print Punctuated: Asterisk is on view here), interestingly employ lithography, woodcut, or other print media in the creation of their work which is digitally printed in its final form. So while some artists may be attracted to the immediacy of gouging into a block of wood, or applying pigment directly onto a sheet of glass or metal to produce a monotype, there seems to be a growing acceptance of exploring all print media as fodder for producing the desired image. Embracing digital techniques doesn't necessarily require the abandonment of more traditional ones.”
Her prints are also on view through November 7 at Xavier University Art Museum, Cincinnati.
September 2008
Martha Saunders
Martha Saunders' latest exhibition, Oscillating Vistas, is on view at Lorrie Saunders' ArtGallery, Norfolk VA through October 25. Saunders captures the layered subtleties of thought, embedding a variety of diverse media beneath the pigmented wax that encases her paintings, while simultaneously using this same dimensional composition to establish a strong physical terrain for the viewer to traverse.
July 2008
Cary Brown
Cary Brown's current exhibition, The Birds Sang Light and Other Messages of Wonder, is on the move too. It travels this summer to the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD) and can be seen there from July 4 – August 8, 2008. Then is will be at the Washington Cancer Institute (DC) from September 4 – November 4. The exhibition is curated by Lilllian Fitzgerald.
Anne Chesnut
Anne Chesnut's work is included in the exhibition New Prints 2008/Summer Artist’s Commentary at International Print Center New York (ICPNY), June 26 - August 1.
The exhibition is the twenty-eighth presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series highlighting contemporary prints made within the past year and represents a cross-section of some of the most exceptional printmaking today. For this presentation, print selections were loosely grouped around the theme of artists’ responses to the current social and political climate.
Her work can also be seen this summer at small works exhibition at The Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NY and in Celebration at the Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts, Fredericksburg VA. And, in the current issue of Piedmont Virginian.
Donna Mintz
Donna Mintz's latest paintings will be a featured exhibit at LYDM during the '08-09 season. Through July 12th some of her new work can be seen in Atlanta at Sandler Hudson Gallery. Catherine Fox, of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, writes about Mintz's drought-inspired painting, sculpture, and installation: "This show was inspired by what she discovered in the parched lake [Lake Lanier] bed when the waters receded over the past year. The porcelain shard, the arrowhead, the arm of a porcelain doll — these talismans of the past are the subject and materials of her installations and the impetus for a promising new direction in her paintings." Read more >
May 2008
John McCarthy
Les Yeux du Monde is very sad to report that one of our artists, John McCarthy, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home on Friday, May 9. Before he began his career in painting, he worked as an attorney in Richmond and then as a senior assistant attorney general for Virginia. His knowledge and love of art was unquenchable. He will be sorely missed.
Jeremy Slayton of the Richmond Times Dispatch writes: "Toward the end of his legal career, Mr. McCarthy became interested in art, and took workshops under artist Wolf Kahn. From there, Mr. McCarthy evolved into a prolific artist..." Read full article >
Daily Progress: "...Mr. McCarthy was also an accomplished artist known for his contemporary Virginia landscape." Read article >
April 2008
Irwin Berman
*The rejection of Irwin Berman's stool, The Great Seal Trophy Stool by the University of Virginia Art Museum for its exhibition
of his work entitled: Sedentary Pleasures: Uncommon Stools by
Irwin Berman and of the accompanying short film The Great "Seal"
of Virginia created with help from UVa alums Michael Wartella and
Sam Retzer and associate professor of art William Bennett has been
in the news.
Brian McNiell writes in the Daily Progress, "UVa Mascot Fails the
Smell Test", May 2: "An exhibit opening Saturday at the University
of Virginia Art Museum will be missing one colorful piece — a short
film and sculpture that depict a pile of orange and blue dog poop."
Read more >
Breedan Fitzgerald follows the story for Cville, May 2: "Update: UVa
Art Museum was o.k. to "edit" fake poop, says artist." Read more >
And, reviews the film and exhibits in the May 6 Issue: "On a table
in the center of Les Yeux’s gallery stood a milking stool, modest in
size and design. On top of the stool, seated like the world’s most
obedient canine, was a mass of blue and orange..." Read more >
Aggie Zed
During May and June, gallery artist Aggie Zed's exhibition "Bestiary" featuring drawings and sculpture will be on view at Nina Liu and Friends. The gallery is located in the historic Poinsett House, 24 State Street , Charleston, South Carolina.
March 2008
Megan Marlatt & Anne Chesnut
Artists Megan Marlatt and Anne Chesnut will give Gallery talks on Tuesday, March 18 at 6 and 6:30 p.m in the gallery. There will be light refreshments served. Les Yeux du Monde is serving as the host gallery for Douglas Dunn while he is in Charlottesville. His performance in the Ix building at 8 p.m. on this same evening.
Read Dunn press release (pdf) >
Read Marlatt & Chesnut release (pdf) >
February 2008
Dean Dass
The Piedmont Virginian, the new quarterly celebrating the region, winter issue featured gallery artist Dean Dass in the article "The Land in Winter". See web slide show >
Anne Chesnut
Prints by gallery artist Anne Chesnut were featured in the Washington Post Express' Weekend Pass: "Animal Alphabets: Anne Chesnut makes digital prints then hand sews them together to create kinda wry, kinda delightful works such as this creature-crawly 'Toys'... Download (pdf) >
Lydia Gasman
Piedmont Council of the Arts notes, "Lydia Gasman recently published book, War and the Cosmos in Picasso's Writings will be available for purchase" during her exhibition, Homes of the Homeless on view through March, "and has been credited in The New York Review of Books as "the only Picasso scholar" to have deciphered his writings and paintings...". Download (pdf) >
January 2008
pshchoPEDIA features Les Yeux du Monde
Les Yeux du Monde Gallery was featured in the online magazine psychoPEDIA's story on Charlottesville with local actress and singer Schuyler Fisk. Read more >
Anne Chesnut
Gallery artist Anne Chesnut's current exhibit, "Conjunction | new media prints", is on view at Jane Haslem Gallery in Washington, DC through February 15, 2008. For more information on the exhibition, see Jane Haslem Gallery's website.
December 2007
Dean Dass
"Mesmerizing rivers run through solo show"
By Ruth Latter, Daily Progress, December 13, 2007
Among the most popular paintings in the history of art are those that pay homage to nature. We seldom tire of beautiful views gently caressed with sunlight. When sensitively executed, they invite our prolonged contemplation. Several paintings sumptuously rendered in oil pigments on linen by Dean Dass, a prominent professor of art at the University of Virginia, celebrate unspoiled scenes of various rivers in this region.
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Megan Marlatt
"Embracing the Imagery of Early Childhood"
By Benjamin Genocchio, New York Times, Sunday, December 23, 2007
Then there is Megan Marlatt, who paints broken and discarded toys piled up as if on a giant rubbish heap. Her paintings embody some of the more serious issues raised by this show, like consumerism, wastefulness and a reliance on cheap imports. Read more >
November 2007
Rob Tarbell
Rob Tarbell is currently exhibiting works at ADA gallery in Richmond. The show opened November 16, 2007 through the new year. In addition, Rob has recently published two pieces from the Les Yeux du Monde Gallery's August show, "Emerging + Established", in a new print exhibition publication Studio Visit, the same publishing house that distributes the New American Press.
October 2007
Lincoln Perry
"Fantasy Island. Perry doesn't fear the reaper"
By Brendan Fitzgerald, C'ville, Issue #19.42 :: 10/12/2007 - 10/18/2007
Fantasy Festival started in Key West, Florida, from a conversation between friends in 1978. For a week or so before Halloween, the city becomes a roving cast of characters....And, while nudity is explicitly prohibited in Key West, the costumes find innovative ways to suggest skin. As a result, the Fantasy Fest website offers this guideline for would-be photographers.... The festival planners didn't take Charlottesville's renowned muralist, Lincoln Perry
, into account when drafting the rules... Read more >
September 2007
Stefanie Newman
"First Impressions: What a relief to find the perfect Medium?"
By David Maurer, Daily Progress, September 27, 2007
Art can move people or stop them in their tracks. For nearly a month, pedestrians strolling by Les Yeux du Monde have dropped in just to get a closer look at the exhibit hanging in the Charlottesville gallery. "I've never seen anything like this before... Read more >
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