Three Tenors on Fire II

Fluid Acrylic on Paper

15" x 11"

2015

My jazz artwork is a visual interpretation of rhythm, movement, and improvisation. I use a simplified Cubist approach to fragment musicians and instruments into geometric shapes, lines, and overlapping forms. Rather than depicting the musicians realistically, I rearrange the forms to capture the energy and spontaneity I hear in jazz. Black, white, gray, and touches of red create a visual rhythm that echoes the contrast between sound and silence. I am not trying to illustrate the music; I am trying to make the music visible.

Three Tenors are a tribute to my favorites; alto, tenor and bass saxophones; and the great masters like Brandford Marsalis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Parker, Stanley Turrentine, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon…

This series of works can be framed with double mats to increase size.

No mat

No frame