underseers

a solo exhibition by Jason Lazarus

5/29/2026 – 8/16/2026
Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL

“the antonyms of overseers disappoint…”

underseers debuts new work from artist Jason Lazarus. Featuring new sculpture, concrete photography, sound, and object-archives, this solo exhibition presents newly practiced modes of seeing for the artist. By withholding representational images, Lazarus searches for methods of rewiring vision more intimately.

As part of the exhibition’s summer programming, Lazarus will debut a public reading of their new essay Listening for Monuments, a meditation on their growing used doorstop collection. In addition, the artist will engage the Dunedin Art Center’s summer youth arts program in the creation of new work.

Part of the artist’s current practice is looking down when walking through public door thresholds.

Used doorstop live archive (4/23/25 – Present) started days after the mass shooting at Florida State University in April 2025. “Two university employees were killed and six others wounded in an attack lasting approximately three minutes near and inside the Student Union building…” As a result, new rules were instituted at the University of South Florida requiring that no doors be propped open. Well-worn door stops from around the art building became the first entries into this archive, which for over a year has posited door stops collected from across the country as a commons, an urgent witness, and as monuments often are–a center.

The archive continues to grow alongside an essay titled Listening for Monuments, a series of episodic meditations featuring the collection moments as prisms for larger stories of intimacy, violence, the body, and notions of seeing.

The Brock String, invented by Frederick W. Brock (1899–1972), treats stereo blindness (seeing in 3 dimensions), also known as steropsis. Critically, the Brock String–typically a 5-10 foot string with colored bead focal points at regular intervals–proved over time that ‘seeing in stereo’ could be achieved in adulthood. Here the Brock String is reimagined by the artist as a wall drawing tool and a pedagogy–the plastic beads replaced by custom sculpted pastel beads (in collaboration with Mount Vision Pastel Company, Tampa, FL). The artist posits each colored bead as a personal corrective vision prompt and offers workshops for the public to collaborate on forming their own corrective vision prompts.

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“…originally trained as a photographer in the early 2000s, i see used white noise sound screens as a surrogate for a subject–mental health–that is largely unphotographable and personal, while widely public in scope and implication…” more here at this link

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Version History (June 8, 2025 – April 27, 2026) traces every adaptation to the artist’s Accessibility Statement over 10 months and is designed as a resource for others in the culture industry. Download the 121 page publication HERE. As part of the artist’s current practice, he’s offering free editing and support to anyone who would like to write one for the first time; please email all requests to

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