Spanning 300 years and featuring more than 20 works of decorative and fine art from diverse locations—Brazil, France, Italy, Sweden, and the U.S.—Glass Subjects serves as an homage to the French artist Serge Roche and his 1930s gallery of mirrors and mirrored objects on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris.

Roche—a historian, collector, and dealer of rare and important mirrors—authored two canonical books on the subject, and his exhibitions and mirrored rooms reflected the period’s burgeoning preoccupation with Versailles, Surrealism, and the human psyche, themes echoed throughout this exhibition.

Glass Subjects examines the enduring fascination with reflective surfaces and their role in art and design, drawing inspiration from Roche’s work, the concept of reflection, and its inherent psychological associations. “We found ‘Glass Subjects’ to be interesting terminology in that it intentionally twists the ‘object’ and the ‘subject,’ a phenomenon that mirrors are similarly capable of recreating. We are presenting mirrors, fine art, and decorative art as the subjects of the exhibition—but when it comes to the mirror, the individual looking in is actually the subject.” – Adam Charlap Hyman.