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Syria Before the Storm
Photographs by Ed Kashi
3 June - 3 July 2016

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First Friday
Friday, 3 June, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Opening Reception with the photographer Ed Kashi and author Don Belt
Tuesday, 14 June, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Lunch with the Artist
Thursday, 16 June, noon - 1 p.m.
Reservations required.
$15, Free for Collectors Club

Look3 Festival Closing and Screening: Syria Before the Storm with Ed Kashi, Don Belt and Julie Winokur
Sunday, 19 June, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
at the Old Metropolitan Hall, 101 East Main St, Charlottesville
Free and open to the public

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Ed Kashi, Palmyra, Syria
Photograph, edition of 7, 24.5 x 36"

Road from Damascus to Palmyra, Syria

Ed Kashi, Road from Damascus to Palmyra, Syria. 1995.
Photograph, edition of 7, 34 x 48"

Postcard Seller at Palmyra Ruins, Syria by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Postcard Seller at Palmyra Ruins, Syria. 1995.
Photograph, edition of 7, 24.5 x 26"

Greco-Roman Ruins of Palmyra, Syria by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Greco-Roman Ruins of Palmyra, Syria. 1995.
Photograph, edition of 7, 24.5 x 36"

Day Laborers in the village of Erry Shamaly, Syria by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Cotton Fields, Erry Shamaly, Syria. 1995.
Photograph, edition of 7, 17 x 24"

Erry Shamaly, Syria by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Cotton, Erry Shamaly, Syria. 1995.
Photograph, edition of 7, 34 x 48"

The Qalat Sharif neighborhood in Aleppo’s Old City by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, The Qalat Sharif neighborhood in Aleppo’s Old City. 1995.
Photograph, edition of 7, 17 x 24"

A Bedouin Family on the way to al-Ghab Valley to graze their Herds by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, A Bedouin Family on the way to al-Ghab Valley to graze their Herds. 1995.
Photograph, edition of 7, 24.5 x 36"

Hilltop Citadel in Aleppo by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Hilltop Citadel in Aleppo
Photograph, edition of 7, 24.5 x 36"

Damascus, Syria by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Damascus, Syria.
Photograph, edition of 7, 17 x 24"

Christian Quarter of the Old City of Damascus, Syria by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Christian Quarter of the Old City of Damascus, Syria. 2009.
Photograph, edition of 7, 17 x 24"

Sacks of grain in a city of wheat that rises from the Syrian Desert near al-Qamishli, Syria by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Sacks of grain in the Syrian Desert near al-Qamishli. 1995.
Photograph, edition of 7, 24.5 x 36"

Omayyad Mosque in Damascus by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Omayyad Mosque in Damascus. 2009.
Photograph, edition of 7, 17 x 24"

Sayida Zainab Mosque, Damascus by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Sayida Zainab Mosque, Damascus. 2009.
Photograph, edition of 7, 17 x 24"

A view of Damascus from Mount Qassion by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, A view of Damascus from Mount Qassion. 2009.
Photograph, edition of 7, 24.5 x 36"

Syrian Catholics prepare for Easter, Christian Quarter of the Old City of Damascus by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Syrian Catholics prepare for Easter, Christian Quarter of the Old City of Damascus. 2009.
Photograph, edition of 7, 17 x 24"

Syrian Catholics prepare for Easter, Christian Quarter of the Old City of Damascus by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, Children playing among the domed-roofs of Am Al Aboud, in the Halab region of Syria.
Photograph, edition of 7, 24.5 x 36"

The Night of Power, at The Umayyad Mosque in the Old City of Damascus by Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi, The Night of Power, at The Umayyad Mosque in the Old City of Damascus. 2009.
Photograph, edition of 7, 17 x 24"

 


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Gallery news

On view through May at the Lower Walker Gallery of the Walker Fine Arts Center at Woodberry Forest School is a show of Russ Warren's livestock marker paintings, Russ Warren: Bull! .

Don't miss Kathy Kuhlmann's beautiful show at Miossa.

We are excited to report that gallery artists Susan Bacik and Millicent Young are included in the current show at the Taubman Museum of Art, Homeward Bound.

Thanks to Raenna Lorne and C-ville weekly for great coverage of John Borden Evans' recent work at Les Yeux du Monde. Read the whole article here. here.

Raenna Lorne reviews Manger Scene at Chroma in its new upstairs gallery on the downtown mall in this week's C-Ville Weekly. Some of Russ Warren's sculpture makes a debut in this great exhibition.

Annie Harris Massie's beautiful art-filled home was featured as the cover story of the May 2016 British House & Garden.

Great review by Sarah Lawson in C-ville Weekly about Christophe Vorlet. Read it here.

Thanks to Sarah Sargent and C-ville Weekly for her great review of Visions for 2016. Read it here.

New City Arts and LYdM. For more info click here.

Great review by Mark Leach in the Charlotte Observer of Russ Warren's, exhibition, Russ Warren: WORKS, 1971 - 2015 now on view at Davidson College. Read here.

Thanks to Catherine Malone and the beautiful new publication Charlottesville Wine and Country Living for the great article and spread about Les Yeux du Monde and Herb Jackson,the first artist we exhibited in October 1995. Read more on their blog.

Thanks to Sarah Lawson and C-ville Weekly for the great article on Dean Dass's current exhibition The Kingdom. To read, click here.

Priscilla Whitlock's latest paintings are featured in a beautiful article in the current Wrightsville Beach Magazine.

Dean Dass's exhibition Animals and Clouds will inaugurate New City Arts' new space at 114 3rd St NE in Charlottesville. Stay tuned for September First Friday opening

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.

Thanks to Sarah Lawson and C-ville Weekly for the great article on Russ Warren's recent exhibition Zaragoza. To read more click here.

Sam Abell's powerful photos from Cuba are featured in the great article,Sam Abell: Cuba Up Close by Elizabeth Meade Howard in the online arts magazine Streetlight.

Grateful to Sarah Lawson and C-ville Weekly for excellent article about the Lydia Csato Gasman Archives and our current show, Picasso, Lydia and Friends. Read more here.

Thanks to the fantastic online arts magazine Streetlight's for recent blog on Lydia Gasman and the LCGA.

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.

Thanks to Andrea Hubbell and the design experts C-ville Weekly invited to choose the most beautiful places in Charlottesville. Les Yeux du Monde is humbled and grateful to have made the list.Thanks to our great architects W.G. Clark and Josh Stastny for this too. Read more here.

Congratulations to gallery artist Anne Chesnut whose print "Winter Blackwork" won a purchase award at the Delta National Small Prints Exhibition at Arkansas State University.

"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;..."
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Recent press

"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. ... 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."
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