WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum presents Perception/Deception: Illusion in Contemporary Art, a compelling four-artist exhibition featuring 26 sculptures and site-specific installations that explore the mysterious relationship between reality and our sense of sight, on view May 21, 2011 through September 25, 2011. The Brandywine Tradition, which is represented in the Delaware Art Museum’s collections, includes in its history a style of art dedicated to “fooling the eye” or trompe l’oeil painting. Through the use of shadow play, lights, mirrors, and complex mathematical equations, the artists included in Perception/Deception expand past this earlier tradition, presenting three-dimensional objects and installations that “fool the mind,” as participating artist Mary Temple explains. This exhibition features the work of four internationally recognized contemporary artists including Temple, Chul