Eye to Eye Gardner

By Jim Schatz and Peter Souza Jr.

One work in two panels. More than 2,000 glazed ceramic tiles in eight colors, hung side by side: Jim’s eye on the left, Peter’s on the right. From across the room each panel reads as a photograph. Walk toward it and it comes apart into glaze, color, and grid.

Jim opened the door to the Ramrod and Peter was standing there. Eye to eye, the connection was sealed. The mural is the eyes of the artist and the lover, built and finished by hand in Detroit.

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By Jim Schatz

A photograph printed on Canson Platine Fibre Rag at 28 by 42 inches, mounted with archival removable adhesive in a black wood frame under glass. The view from the artists’ apartment: the towers Mies van der Rohe designed in their backyard in Detroit, at dusk, an eye in every window, surveilling the city.

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By Jim Schatz

A photograph printed on Canson Platine Fibre Rag at 28 by 42 inches, mounted with archival removable adhesive in a black wood frame under glass. The tile eye hangs in a gilded frame under the stone arches of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where people look in at the work and at who else is looking, and photograph each other in front of it — a Sargent replaced by the eye, in the rooms of a famous robbery whose empty frames still hang on the wall.

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by Jim Schatz

Three pairs of white glazed domes, one eye on each dome in sepia photographic transfer: Dolly Parton, Donna Summer and Madonna. A tribute to the divas who drive us to dance, their soulful eyes mirroring the songs we grew up with and danced to together, as a tribe of gay men and women.

Sold singly. Each pair is one of a kind, built and finished by hand in Detroit.

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by Jim Schatz

Twelve white stoneware discs, each with one eye in sepia photographic transfer and one name: Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Derek Jarman, James Baldwin, Jasper Johns, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Keith Haring, Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Rauschenberg, Sylvester, Wolfgang Tillmans. Twelve gay male artists, framed by the hole in the wall that gay men used in the back rooms and video booths of another era as part of their expression. A tribute that is both sexual and sincere.

Hung as a group and sold singly. Each disc is one of a kind, 4″ in diameter and ½″ deep, finished by hand in Detroit.

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By Jim Schatz

Eyes On You is about being watched all the time, and about what that awareness is and what you do with it. Nine videos of Jim's eye, each inside one of his fired ceramic spheres, talk in the gay banter of the universe Jim and Peter have made their own: the greeting at the door, the read, the verdict, the score, the come-on, and once in a while a kind word. The eyes stare straight ahead until someone enters, then turn together and follow. Step closer and you are clocked, read, and scored, and every so often told it is good to see you.

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