underseers: Jason Lazarus

Date: May 29, 2026 - August 16, 2026

Gallery: Entel Family Gallery

For Lazarus, “the antonyms of the term ‘overseers’ disappoint—this exhibition is both journal and journalism, a turn away from foreclosure, and toward possibility.” Taking this premise as a point of departure, the exhibition explores alternative ways of seeing and recording the everyday.

Featuring new sculpture, concrete photography, and object-based archives, underseers revisits moments typically defined by a photographic encounter and translates them into other forms. By deliberately withholding images, Lazarus invites viewers to reconsider how vision is constructed—shifting perception from the immediate and visible toward something more intimate, reflective, and embodied.

As part of the exhibition’s summer programming, Lazarus will present a public reading of their new essay, Listening for Monuments, a meditation on a growing collection of used doorstops included in the exhibition.

Jason Lazarus

Jason Lazarus is an artist exploring vision and visibility. His work includes a range of fluid methodologies: photography, found and appropriated images, text-as-image, photo-derived sculptures made individually and collaboratively with the public, live archives, film, video, LED light images, and public submission repositories among others.  This expanded practice seeks new approaches of inquiry, embodiment, and bearing witness through both individual and collective research.  Currently, Lazarus is an Associate Professor of Art and Art History at the University of South Florida.