This two-person exhibition brings together the works of Kevin Zabasky Perkins and Gaspard Girard d’Albissin, two painters whose practices engage deeply with the phenomenology of memory, photography, and the ambiguities of temporal and spatial representation. With human faces rarely appearing—and when they do, remaining elusive and transient—the artists redirect attention to the ethereal essence of experience, exploring the delicate interplay between the archival and the imaginary.

​

Kevin Zabasky Perkins draws from a repertoire of sun-bleached postcards and thrifted photographs, their once-vivid imagery eroded by light and time. His paintings occupy an in-between space where specificity dissolves into atmosphere: figures and settings emerge and recede in equal measure, their forms veiled by a patina of nostalgic abstraction. The effect is one of temporal disorientation—Zabasky Perkins’ works could depict any number of liminal geographies. Some elements—bridges, boats, and trees—offer familiar cues yet remain unmoored, inviting the viewer to traverse landscapes that resist definitive placement.

​

In contrast, Gaspard Girard d’Albissin constructs his compositions with a calculated stillness. His works evoke the controlled mise-en-scène of a staged photograph, where the central subject commands the gaze. Yet despite their formal clarity, Girard d’Albissin’s paintings resist narrative closure. Textural nuances—rendered in the softness of hair or the quiet precision of shoes—imbue his figures with an elusive intimacy, amplifying their enigmatic quality. Time in these works feels suspended, a tableau vivant that invites the viewer to linger in the interstices of the moment.

​

Together, Zabasky Perkins and Girard d’Albissin offer complementary explorations of temporality and perception. While Zabasky Perkins captures the entropy of time’s passage through the faded traces of nature and humanity, Girard d’Albissin seems to freeze time in its most contemplative state, directing the gaze toward the quiet gravity of presence. 

​​

​

Email info@irl-nyc.com if you would like to receive the exhibition catalogue.