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Les Yeux du Monde Gallery April 2015 Russ Warren gave a gallery talk on Sunday, April 19 at 2 p.m. in the Baker Gallery at Woodberry Forest school about his survey exhibition,Russ Warren WORKS, 1971-2015. There was a Closing reception there on Sunday, 3 May from 2 - 4 pm. March 2015 Susan Bacik's two venue survey exhibition at LYdM and Second Street Gallery is featured in an excellent article by David A. Mauer in the Daily Progress. Read the article here. She was also interviewed by Sandy Hausman on WVTF. Check out the interview here. January 2015 Sam Abell's recent powerful photos from Cuba are featured in a wonderful article,Sam Abell: Cuba Up Close by Elizabeth Meade Howard in the online arts magazine Streetlight. Thanks to the fantastic online arts magazine Streetlight's for recent blog on Lydia Gasman and the LCGA. December 2014 Anne Chesnut's art was featured in Jane Haslem's last public exhibition after an impressive run of 55 years as a major gallery in Washington D.C. The opening was Friday, December at the Jane Haslem Gallery. Sanda Iliescu has two shows opening this weekend. Her work is included in our current Picasso, Lydia and Friends 2014 exhibition and she has a solo show, Sanda Iliescu: In the Garden of (Plastic) Paradise opening in New York at the Gallery Molly Krom. October 2014 Sarah Sargent wrote a brilliant review of our Anne Slaughter exhibition in the current C-ville Weekly. Read more here. We recently found this excellent coverage of current exhibiting artist Anne Slaughter's 2006 retrospective at Second Street Gallery and Les Yeux du Monde in the online arts blog Streetlight. September 2014 C-Ville. "The Gasman archives pay homage to artistic passion" by Sarah Lawson, 9/23/2014. "In addition to her teaching, Gasman's work focused in sharp detail on the life and work of Picasso. Spending years decoding the artist's symbolism and texts, Gasman permanently changed the course of Picasso scholarship." Read more > August 2014 Congratulations to Dean Dass whose prints were chosen for the 7th International Printmaking Biennial in Douro Portugal on view from 10 August through 31 October. To view video excerpts from this Biennial click here. June 2014 "Artist Richard Crozier's works are subjects of change...change of seasons, change of light, change of landscape and skyline. Over the past four decades, he has produced more than 3000 "portraits" of the Charlottesville area in transition." Read more of Elizabeth Howard's great article about artist Richard Crozier in Streetlight, an online arts magazine that all who love art and literature will enjoy.
April 2014 "Trisha Orr's complex, tour de forces of fabric, objects, and flowers have earned high critical praise for many years. They are beautifully rendered, dispassionate works, and they reveal very little about the artist except that she is technically gifted and admires beauty." Read more > C-Ville. "Setting pretty: The 18 most beautiful places in Charlottesville" by C-VILLE Writers, 4/09/2014. "Stepping into Les Yeux du Monde, a contemporary art gallery owned by art dealer Lyn Bolen Warren and her husband, painter Russ Warren, one immediately understands the meaning of its name: the eyes of the world." Read more > March 2014 C-Ville. "Les Yeux du Monde welcomes color in 'Visions of Spring' by Elizabeth Derby, 3/25/14. "If you're tired of grey skies and slush, you might want to visit Les Yeux du Monde before the end of March." Read more > February 2014 Thanks to Maria Hallas on NBC29 for covering our Valentine's Event last Sunday! Also see the great interview with Ellen Hathaway, who is the featured artist at LYdM through February 16, by the online television network Earless Rabbit. January 2014 Anne Chesnut's print Winter Blackwork received a purchase award at the Delta National Small Prints Exhibition at Arkansas Sate University. Read more > December 2013 C-Ville. "Dean Dass works to evoke a beautiful loneliness on earth and above it", by Sarah Sargent, 12/11/2013. "The Dean Dass: New Paintings and Works on Paper exhibition on view at Les Yeux du Monde offers the double pleasure of Dass luscious landscapes paired with his more mystical media-rich works on paper. A professor of printmaking at UVA, Dass took up landscape painting in 1994 while on sabbatical in New Hampshire. He was drawn to the austerity of the lonely northern landscape, an affinity that continues to this day in his paintings of Virginia, Ireland, and Lapland." Read more > October 2013 Washington Post.. "Galleries: 'Objects of Desire,' 'A Question in Printmaking,' 'Temperament/Monolith'", by Mark Jenkins, posted 10/25/2013. "Both Anne Chesnut and Peter Milton employ digital technology to make their immaculate prints, but they use the process in different ways. 'A Question in Printmaking: Digital vs. Digital,' at Jane Haslem Gallery, contrasts the full-color imagery of Chesnut, who has always used computers, with the black and white visions of Milton, who came to them after decades of etching and engraving." Read more > June 2013 "David Summers' scholarly contributions are well known in the history of art and ideas. The titles of some of
his books reveal his wide-ranging and ambitious concerns: Michelangelo
and the Language of Art, The Judgment of Sense: Renaissance Naturalism
and the Rise of Aesthetics; Real Spaces. World Art History and the Rise
of Western Modernism;..." May 2013 Anne Chesnut April 2013 Lindsey Oberg February 2013 Elizabeth Bradford December 2012 Virginia Modern. Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, by Josh McCullar, Posted 12/03/2012. "On a sunny autumn Saturday afternoon in November, I took some time to visit Lyn Bolen Warren at her rural hilltop home and gallery twelve miles Northeast of downtown Charlottesville. It sits high and well away from the road leading up through a forest, and when rounding the final bend, what appears is the panorama of a Piedmont vista framed by two very unique modern buildings. On the left is villa-like series of residential pavilions for her family and on the right is a new art gallery designed by W G Clark sandwiched between walls translucent glass block and sheets of Corten steel. Beyond this is a gently sloping grassy meadow, and beyond that is a humble gable form horse barn set into the trees." "All in all, it's just an amazing place to be - a true respite for one's soul. I left with the sense that Lyn is a special person with a purposeful vision, and I am thrilled to share her mission with you here." Read interview > Susan Fleischmann October 2012 We're excited to announce that LYDM's summer exhibition and performance by Rob Tarbell and Douglas Boyce, Bird-Like Things in Things Like Trees, is headed to the Big Apple. It will show at the venerable White Box, a nonprofit art space in New York on October 27th. For more information and to support the project, see the Kickstarter.com campaign > September 2012 The Artizen Traveler Guide to Charlottesville, Virginia. Artist Profile: Russ Warren, Fall 2012, pages 11-19. "Russ Warren is a Charlottesville fine artist who has been producing drawings, paintings and mixed media pieces since the early seventies and has exhibited extensively both in the US and abroad, including the Whitney Biennial in 1981 and the Venice Biennial in 1984. In looking over the body of his work, you see overlapping themes that spiral and resurface throughout the years - Picasso influences, southwest American, Spanish and South American influences, montages of collected materials, autobiographical sources. One of the big themes is his love and passion for music. I've met so many artists who've had to make tough decisions about directions for their creativity, which isn't typically limited to just one sense. In our interview, he had a few warm and telling stories about how one's innate creative passions are carved by circumstances and seemingly small events and exposures can make or break a direction." Read interview > August 2012 C-Ville. "Picasso, Lydia and Friends" at Les Yeux du Monde, by Sarah Argent, 08/30/2012. "Friday's opening of Picasso, Lydia and Friends, features the work of Anne Chesnut, Dean Dass, David Summers, Rosemarie Fiore, Russ Warren, Sanda Iliescu, Lydia Gasman and last but not least, Picasso. The exhibition heralds the advent of the Lydia Csato Gasman Archives for Picasso and Modernist Studies under the leadership of Lyn Bolen Warren and Victoria Beck Newman." Read more > QR ArtGuide. Picasso, Lydia and Friends at Les Yeux du Monde. "Professor Lydia Gasman, who died in 2010, was a renowned scholar and teacher of art history with a profound understanding of Picasso and his role in 20th century art and culture. This exhibition, organized by LYDM gallery director Lyn Bolen, connects and combines Gasman's work to that of former students - and to Picasso's work, also on view." Read more and listen to interviews > July 2012 C-Ville. Rob Tarbell and Douglas Boyce fuse visual art and musical composition, by Sarah Sargent, Issue #24.28 :: 07/10/2012 - 07/16/2012. A collaboration between visual artist Rob Tarbell and composer Douglas Boyce, Bird-like Things in Things Like Trees was conceived two summers ago during an artist residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Auvillar, France. While there, both men became captivated by a distinctive birdsong. Their unsuccessful quest to identify the bird became a kind of metaphor for their situation as strangers in a foreign land trying to figure out what people were saying and how to navigate an unfamiliar landscape. Read more > April 2012 C-Ville. A brush with spring at Les Yeux du Monde, by Sarah Sargent, Issue #24.14 :: 04/03/2012 - 04/09/2012. As spring rears its lovely head in Central Virginia, New Vistas at Les Yeux du Monde features five artists approach to landscape. Read more > January 2012 Rob Tarbell Stood in a face mask and fire-proof overalls, Rob Tarbell burns a series of everyday items – credit cards, sometimes, or photographs – and watches the smoke snake upwards." Anyone watching him might be tempted to call the fire service, unless they were to glance up and see what he's really doing –creating his latest batch of 'smoke art'." By skilfully manipulating the flow as it rises, Tarbell 'draws' images onto hanging pieces of paper." The results are these vivid portrayals of circus animals, a series he calls Smoke Rings." Read more > Rob Tarbell "At first glance, these works look like standard charcoal-smudged paintings." "That's close, but no cigar - because they have, in fact, been created by smoke." "The amazing pictures were created by Rob Tarbell, who achieved the effect by burning everyday objects, such as photos and credit cards, and then capturing the smoke on paper attached to the ceiling." Read more > December 2011 LYDM is happy to be part of the Virginia Tourism website. We are working together to bring visitors from all over the world to enjoy our Virginia's abundant natural and cultural resources. November 2011 Focus on the Print. "About Focus on the Print". During November and December, 2011 a group of galleries in Central Virginia, along the Route 20N corridor from Charlottesville to Orange, will host a "Focus on the Print," featuring the work of regional printmakers. Since ancient times the urge to replicate images has been a goal of artists. Before the invention of the printing press methods were invented to duplicate artwork, such as cast seals and relief carvings. They were often used to disseminate information, religious, political, and cultural, to the masses. Read more > August 2011 Russ Warren One night in 1973, Russ Warren went to his Houston home, pulled a large sheet of paper from a stack, and composed a grid—dozens and dozens of 1.5" squares. He sharpened one pencil, another, another. He gathered brushes, watercolor paints, and India ink at his kitchen table. "I said, 'I'm going to stay up all night long until I have a picture in every one of these squares,'" said Warren. It took all night. He started at 8pm, and finished at 4:30am, a half-hour before he needed to be at his next odd job. He left for work without looking at the paper. Read more > Kurt Steger "Ten Years After 9/11" will feature works whose contextual concerns from the ten year period since 9/11 create multiple points of view and conversations. The invited artists include inter-generational and established artists who have given generously to the greater metropolitan and international community. The exhibition gathers artists whose work explores the human condition with all its various tensions, uniting direct experiences, cultural paths, social and political concerns, and penetrating universal meanings and questions that our world(s) ask us to consider since September 11, 2001. The artists invited to exhibit are: Saadi Al Kaabi, Ahmed Alkarkhi, Shahla Arbabi, Ken Ashton, Billy Colbert, Combat Papermakers/Drew Cameron, Brian Counihan, Frank Hallam Day, Joan Danziger, Alexander Djikia, Bill Dunlap, William Dunlap, Michael D. Fay, Helen Frederick, Chawky Frenn, Ann Glover, Alison Hall, Pinkney Herbert, Victor Juhasz, Jeffrey Kent, Bridget Sue Lambert, Adam Lister, Despina Meimaroglou, Michael Pestel, Matt Pinney, Michael B. Platt, Phyllis Plattner, Annette Polan, Raoul Middleman, David Richardson, Patrick Sargent, Brian Sentman, Peter Sowiski, Kurt Steger, Erwin Thamm, Leonid Tishkov, Sean Watkins, Sue Wrbican, Workingman's Collective. July 2011 Each summer, Wintergreen Performing Arts presents the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy. The 2011 Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy will take place from July 6-August 7, 2011 at Wintergreen Resort in Wintergreen, Virginia. Other highlights: Picasso's Mediterranean Revels: Prints from 1946-62, presented in collaboration with Les Yeux du Monde in Charlottesville, Virginia. An exhibition of prints by Pablo Picasso from the years after World War II when Picassos art and life experienced a rebirth. Read more > May 2011 John Grant April 2011 John McCarthy "Blue Ridge vistas swaddle Les Yeux Du Mondes hilltop perch from all sides. Their subtle grace is evident in the way tidy fields give way to trees, which give way to hills building, to the horizon like overlapping banter in a gauzy southern drawl. Its a landscape hard to capture in words and, I imagine, even harder to paint." "John Montgomery McCarthy took to the challenge with the focused discipline of a lawyer preparing for trial. From the mid-1990s, when the well-regarded litigator retired from the state attorney generals office, McCarthy channeled his intellect into capturing the colors and sensations of central Virginia in paintings and prints." Read more > March 2011 Sarah Sargent published an article about architect W.G. Clark who designed the new LYDM gallery. Read article > December 2010 Megan Marlatt I went to the Athenaeum in Alexandria, Virginia this week to see Megan Marlatt's show, Molded from Complicated Mixtures, which includes her tondos of various cartoon characters, and drawings and large-scale paintings of toys. Read more > November 2010 The Hook. Known for combining unusual media, ranging from cut Japanese paper to gold leaf and rust, Witt creates complexly layered paintings that center on archetypal religious symbols. Read more > C-Ville. Clay Witt's images stand out, not just for his painstaking approach to creating them, but in the literal sense... Read more > September 2010 Russ Warren will given a gallery talk entitled From Allen's Landing to Magic Mountain in which he will discuss his latest paintings within the larger context of his 40+ year career at Hodges Taylor in NC on September 30th. More details > Sanda Iliescu has a major site-specific piece, Lines of Darkness and Light, at the Rotunda for the Day of Dialogue at the University of Virginia on Friday, September 24. For details about this public art project, see event website > June 2010
Daily Progress, "Adding Myth and Magic to Art," by Wendy Edwards, June 24, 2010. "People always ask you where your influences come from and where your first exposure to art comes into play,' says Russ Warren, a Charlottesville-based artist who has painted magic realism for more than half his life. Warren's first impressions arrived at a very young age when what was only meant to keep a wall from looking bare became a springboard for his curiosity." Read more > May 2010 Gallery artist John Grant is featured in The Light Factory's Third Juried Annuale through August 15 in Charlotte. "Grant's luscious images, with their seductive, glossy surfaces, are probably the most attention-grabbing in the show..." Read more > February 2010 Lydia Gasman "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 I went after last weeks 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 > January 2010 Check out the great Charlottesville blog, Scout, Susie Matheson has started and what she says about Les Yeux du Monde. Read blog > December 2009 Russ Warren The title of Russ Warrens 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 Warrens paintings is similar to Hans Castorps arrival: There is much to contemplate, and you wind up staying in Lyn Bolen Warrens amazing gallery space, high up off of Route 20 with beautiful views of the Blue Ridge, for longer than you had intended. September 2009 LYDM Gallery "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 John Grant Shelby Fischer Robert Tarbell November 2008 Sam Abell "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 Abells public as well as personal body of work, appear in the just released book, The Life of a Photograph. Published by National Geographic, Abells words and images combine to answer the elusive question of what creates the spark that gives life to a photograph." Read more > Nicole Noelle "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." October 2008 Cary Brown Shelby Fischer Anne Chesnut Her prints are also on view through November 7 at Xavier University Art Museum, Cincinnati. September 2008 Martha Saunders July 2008 Cary Brown Anne Chesnut 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 May 2008 John McCarthy 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 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 > Aggie Zed March 2008 Megan Marlatt & Anne Chesnut February 2008 Dean Dass Anne Chesnut Lydia Gasman January 2008 pshchoPEDIA features Les Yeux du Monde Anne Chesnut December 2007 Dean Dass 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. Read more > Megan Marlatt 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 October 2007 Lincoln Perry
September 2007 Stefanie Newman 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 >
2006See this excellent coverage of Anne Slaughter's 2006 retrospective at Second Street Gallery and Les Yeux du Monde in the online arts blog Streetlight. |
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