Tag Archive for ‘Music’
Words in Pictures: Mary McFarlane Espinosa
Mary McFarlane Espinosa’s music is an equal and bittersweet mix of triumph and sadness, exultation and struggle. Her visual art, especially the assemblage work, mirrors that.
Hot/Cool Combo: Kwanza Humphrey
There’s a good deal of both warmth and “cool” in Kwanza Humphrey’s work, which makes it entirely fitting to the subject matter.
Moved by Music: Scott Allen
Scott Allen’s music-themed work is laden with emotion — often augmented by lyrical text, as in today’s featured image, but also in the faces and body language of his subjects.
Contemplating Jazz: Harold Smith
Harold Smith’s jazz-inspired art is full of joy and pain, triumph and adversity and passion … the hallmarks not only of music, but of the lives of those who make it and are touched by it.
Sending out Dedications: Aaron Marable
There’s not a hint of irony in Aaron Marable’s “Heavy Rotation”; this is a straightforward dedication to the music Marable loves, and to those who made it.
Painting the Praises of Famous Men: Bill Griffiths
In another time, Bill Griffiths might have been a painter of icons, a printer of holy cards or a sculptor of saints. The objects of reverence he depicts draw (or drew) devotees to temples of a different sort … the houses of sports and rock ‘n’ roll.
Fragile and Enduring: Bryan Clark
Bryan Clark’s Belle Glass creations are proof, in a season of flash and glitz and ornaments that light up, play music and do everything but grate nutmeg over the holiday eggnog, that it’s the simple things … the timeless, well-made, beautifully constructed things … that resonate.
Acoustic/Mosaic: Cynthia Litwer
Cynthia Litwer’s guitar mosaics blend light, color, shape and pattern into a lovely visual chord.
Artistic Evolution: Jean Van Harlingen
No matter the medium, Jean Van Harlingen’s eye for shape, color and texture (even in the two-dimensional works) comes through loud and clear in her show at VALA Gallery in Mission.
Time Signatures: Kelly Porter
Some works are obviously influenced by straight, flowing rhythms, others by more irregular meters. The concept of repetition is pronounced at times, subtle at others, but always there.
Two Continents, Many Talents : Christina Vantzou
Christina Vantzou, a Kansas City native now living and working in Belgium, proves that the region’s strain of homegrown creativity can thrive anywhere.
The Music is Her Muse: Alexis Hejna
Hejna’s visual takes on various musical styles and individual songs range from the intricately cerebral to the smolderingly sensual.
Dances with Paint : Cynthia Hudson
Hudson’s father was a visual artist, and her mother owned a dance studio. So when Hudson describes her preparatory process as “choreographing a painting.” she comes by that description honestly on both counts.
(ARTKC365) A Marvell-ous Collection: Leslie Norman Hubble
Shadows play key roles in the acrylic paintings that make up Hubble’s portion of this month’s group show at Westport Coffeehouse. And in keeping with her penchant for working with a palette which includes the felt as well as the seen, those shadows are often emotional as well as visual.
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