‘Double Take’ celebrates the works of French artists Paul Alexis and Gully. In their re-contextualizations of classic images, both Gully and Alexis’s masterful appropriations evoke new meanings informed by conscious experience and challenge pre-conceived associations to the familiar. By removing works of art from the traditionally linear continuum of art history, Gully and Alexis provoke the contemporary viewer while meditating on the act of perception itself. Paul Alexis is a French artist born in 1947. In his large-scale steel structures, shadows of classic icons are suppressed to reveal ethereal reminders of images engrained in, but perhaps neglected by, our collective memory. While layers of metal sheets emphasize our distance from these icons, the faces lurking under the surface permeate through time and confront our relationship to history and context. Gully is known for his contemporary street art. His striking meta-paintings exhibited in ‘Double Take’ pay tribute to legends of the art world in facetious scenes of coexistence between art and observer. While playful, his works are a poignant examination of the influence of space, time and spectatorship on the transcendent meaning of a given work of art.