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| Music To My Eyes Art Exhibition at Tabla Rasa Gallery Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, presents "Music to My Eyes, " visual artwork inspired by or related to music. The paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and installation art will make your heart sing, and your imagination soar. About the Artists: Onyedika Chuke, an iconoclastic emerging talent, presents a compelling interpretation of Miles Davis. He combines an original use of materials, giving texture and dimension to the painted surface. Cui Fei creates her own universal language from twigs and natural elements, forming lyrical compositions in her installations and Xerox transfers. Between 1970 and 1993 award-winning Filmmaker and TV producer-writer-director Tony De Nonno worked as a freelance photographer capturing some of the greatest stars of the 20th Century both behind the scenes and in performance. With early pictures of Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, Bette Midler, Carly Simon and David Bowie, De Nonno's one of a kind photographs have not been available for public viewing… untill now. John Jerard combines his skills as an artist, interior, theatrical, movie, scenic and prop designer and fabricator with his artistic vision, in the presentation of his unique dimensional work. Opera lovers will relish the stunning works of Winnie Klotz, official photographer for the Metropolitan Opera for 27 years. After beginning her career as a dancer on Broadway, and at New York's legendary Latin Quarter, her combined love of opera and performance brought her to "The Met." There she captured the drama, genius and passion of this exhilarating art form. Carter King is a self-taught sculptor who has developed a unique visual language borne out of the narrative traditions of his previous experiences as a writer. He presents painstakingly reconfigured works from guitars, sliced, reconstructed and refinished to become a completely new form. Sylvia Maier seduces us with her large scale drawings and paintings. Her bold and emotional work is powerful, enigmatic and always thought provoking. The figures are alive with drama, within a musical tableau. Meridith McNeal's work is intrinsically bound up in the ideas of memory and history. She uses antique paper and iconic objects, including shoes, bags, gloves and other personal accessories to layer time, and interweave the past with the present. The work included in Music For My Eyes is created from or on vintage sheet music. Janet Morgan's study and performance of Belly Dance has inspired the wild and colorful works presented here. Full of life, color and spirit, her mixed media pieces teem with joyful dancers and deities of her own creation. Matt Schwartz uses an enticing Polaroid transfer process to depict his version of the pin-up girl. His images of female models, decorated with lps and toy pianos, seem suspended in time. Inspired by the images of Romare Beardon, Willie Torbert has himself become a master of the medium of collage. Also, a sure and natural draftsman, the musicians in his black and white ink drawings, feel completely alive, true to the character of the American-born music form, Jazz. Emily Weiner presents intimate paintings from nature suggesting the staff and signature of musical notation. Brian Young is a published poet and oil painter. Through humor and his bold use of color, Young paints an absurdist vision of the world that resonates with quirky innocence and pathos. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |