Exhibition of new works on paper by Jason Moran on view at Luhring Augustine
Jason Moran: The Sound Will Tell You, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York (January 16 February 27, 2021).
NEW YORK, NY
.-Luhring Augustine is presenting The Sound Will Tell You, a presentation of new works on paper by Jason Moran, which marks the gallerys second exhibition with the artist. Internationally renowned as a jazz pianist and composer, Morans interdisciplinary and often collaborative visual art practice mines the history of music, and its social, cultural, and political subtexts.
To create these vibrant and textured works, Moran places a sheet of Japanese Gampi paper on a piano and records his various attacks on the keys. The motion of his hands is tracked in layered lines of saturated pigment, and washes of color spill across the compositions, tracing the pull of gravity, or charting the creases and natural fibers of the paper. Recalling traditions of gestural abstraction and automat
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New online exhibition at Shelburne Museum binds twenty works of art spanning two centuries
Caroline Carpenter Smith Persons (Northfield, Vermont, 1835-1902), Appliqué and Pieced Sunflower Quilt, 1860-80. Cotton, 77 3/4 x 85 1/2 in. Gift of Ethel Smith Washburn. 1987-19.
SHELBURNE, VT
.-Shelburne Museum presents 20 textile masterpieces dating from the first decades of the 1800s to the turn of the 21st century in the newest online exhibition, Pattern & Purpose: American Quilts from Shelburne Museum. The online exhibition opened Thursday, January 28.
Pattern & Purpose explores objects that expand our sense of what art can be, and recognize how invention and discovery can be found in the most familiar of places, said Associate Curator Katie Wood Kirchhoff who organized the exhibition. Today, quilt-making is recognized as an art form in its own right, revealing makers skills and personal visions from complex geometric designs that would feel at home in a gallery of pop art