In Forte, nine Creativity Explored artists transform sheet music into a beautiful new language of abstracted patterns and marks on paper. Symbols, notes, and chords intended to communicate sound are reimagined as 34 individual visual compositions in this group exhibition. Featured artists include Charles Cruz, Anthony Gomez, Kaocrew “Yah” Kakabutra, Taneya Lovelace, Edita Membreno, José Nuñez, Selene Perez, Hung Kei Shiu, and Ana Marie Vidalon.
At the opening reception for Forte on August 13, 2015, solo musician Danny Paul Grody will perform a unique set of guitar-based music inspired by some of the artworks in the exhibition. Grody will explore sound through the elements of texture, abstraction, and mood found in the drawings. In addition, Grody will provide a selection of recorded music that can be listened to throughout the duration of the exhibition.
According to Curator and Creativity Explored Executive Director Amy Taub, Forte was inspired by an earlier series of music-related prints in which Vidalon interpreted sheet music. Taub explains, “I was fascinated by Vidalon’s response to musical notations and became intrigued by what might happen when other studio artists used sheet music as their source material. The resulting artworks are incredibly sophisticated and innovative.”
For example, Selene Perez’s artworks on viewvividly contrast dark and light, and fine lines and densely black forms. In Cantra no LLores, 2014, marker and watercolor on paper, 30 x 22 inches, a thick black band, which resembles the top of an eighth note, separates two different registers. In the upper register, Perez repeats the half notes over and over. In the lower register, Perez twists and turns quarter and eighth notes.
While Perez rearranges notes on the page, Hung Kei Shiu deconstructs the notes entirely in works like Untitled, 2015, marker and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches. In taking apart the visual aspects of the source material, sheet music is turned into Shiu’s signature tiny marks, hatched lines, and miniscule circles to create energized compositions.
Ana Marie Vidalon takes a more gestural response to sheet music. Known for her compulsive repetition, Vidalon fills the entire picture plane with abstract typographical musical notation, accompanied by bold design and color. In works like Untitled, 2014, marker and watercolor on paper, 13 x 18 inches, Vidalon layers notes rendered in a loose style with washes of gray and blue watercolor.
Artworks in the exhibition are grouped according to artist with eight separate “bridges” transitioning one design approach to the next. (Each artist selected a different aspect of the source material in which to transform into their own personal artistic style.) The result is a rich and varied landscape of shapes, color, movement, and form.
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At the opening reception for Forte on August 13, 2015, solo musician Danny Paul Grody will perform a unique set of guitar-based music inspired by some of the artworks in the exhibition. Grody will explore sound through the elements of texture, abstraction, and mood found in the drawings. In addition, Grody will provide a selection of recorded music that can be listened to throughout the duration of the exhibition.
According to Curator and Creativity Explored Executive Director Amy Taub, Forte was inspired by an earlier series of music-related prints in which Vidalon interpreted sheet music. Taub explains, “I was fascinated by Vidalon’s response to musical notations and became intrigued by what might happen when other studio artists used sheet music as their source material. The resulting artworks are incredibly sophisticated and innovative.”
For example, Selene Perez’s artworks on viewvividly contrast dark and light, and fine lines and densely black forms. In Cantra no LLores, 2014, marker and watercolor on paper, 30 x 22 inches, a thick black band, which resembles the top of an eighth note, separates two different registers. In the upper register, Perez repeats the half notes over and over. In the lower register, Perez twists and turns quarter and eighth notes.
While Perez rearranges notes on the page, Hung Kei Shiu deconstructs the notes entirely in works like Untitled, 2015, marker and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches. In taking apart the visual aspects of the source material, sheet music is turned into Shiu’s signature tiny marks, hatched lines, and miniscule circles to create energized compositions.
Ana Marie Vidalon takes a more gestural response to sheet music. Known for her compulsive repetition, Vidalon fills the entire picture plane with abstract typographical musical notation, accompanied by bold design and color. In works like Untitled, 2014, marker and watercolor on paper, 13 x 18 inches, Vidalon layers notes rendered in a loose style with washes of gray and blue watercolor.
Artworks in the exhibition are grouped according to artist with eight separate “bridges” transitioning one design approach to the next. (Each artist selected a different aspect of the source material in which to transform into their own personal artistic style.) The result is a rich and varied landscape of shapes, color, movement, and form.
In Forte, nine Creativity Explored artists transform sheet music into a beautiful new language of abstracted patterns and marks on paper. Symbols, notes, and chords intended to communicate sound are reimagined as 34 individual visual compositions in this group exhibition. Featured artists include Charles Cruz, Anthony Gomez, Kaocrew “Yah” Kakabutra, Taneya Lovelace, Edita Membreno, José Nuñez, Selene Perez, Hung Kei Shiu, and Ana Marie Vidalon.
At the opening reception for Forte on August 13, 2015, solo musician Danny Paul Grody will perform a unique set of guitar-based music inspired by some of the artworks in the exhibition. Grody will explore sound through the elements of texture, abstraction, and mood found in the drawings. In addition, Grody will provide a selection of recorded music that can be listened to throughout the duration of the exhibition.
According to Curator and Creativity Explored Executive Director Amy Taub, Forte was inspired by an earlier series of music-related prints in which Vidalon interpreted sheet music. Taub explains, “I was fascinated by Vidalon’s response to musical notations and became intrigued by what might happen when other studio artists used sheet music as their source material. The resulting artworks are incredibly sophisticated and innovative.”
For example, Selene Perez’s artworks on viewvividly contrast dark and light, and fine lines and densely black forms. In Cantra no LLores, 2014, marker and watercolor on paper, 30 x 22 inches, a thick black band, which resembles the top of an eighth note, separates two different registers. In the upper register, Perez repeats the half notes over and over. In the lower register, Perez twists and turns quarter and eighth notes.
While Perez rearranges notes on the page, Hung Kei Shiu deconstructs the notes entirely in works like Untitled, 2015, marker and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches. In taking apart the visual aspects of the source material, sheet music is turned into Shiu’s signature tiny marks, hatched lines, and miniscule circles to create energized compositions.
Ana Marie Vidalon takes a more gestural response to sheet music. Known for her compulsive repetition, Vidalon fills the entire picture plane with abstract typographical musical notation, accompanied by bold design and color. In works like Untitled, 2014, marker and watercolor on paper, 13 x 18 inches, Vidalon layers notes rendered in a loose style with washes of gray and blue watercolor.
Artworks in the exhibition are grouped according to artist with eight separate “bridges” transitioning one design approach to the next. (Each artist selected a different aspect of the source material in which to transform into their own personal artistic style.) The result is a rich and varied landscape of shapes, color, movement, and form.
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At the opening reception for Forte on August 13, 2015, solo musician Danny Paul Grody will perform a unique set of guitar-based music inspired by some of the artworks in the exhibition. Grody will explore sound through the elements of texture, abstraction, and mood found in the drawings. In addition, Grody will provide a selection of recorded music that can be listened to throughout the duration of the exhibition.
According to Curator and Creativity Explored Executive Director Amy Taub, Forte was inspired by an earlier series of music-related prints in which Vidalon interpreted sheet music. Taub explains, “I was fascinated by Vidalon’s response to musical notations and became intrigued by what might happen when other studio artists used sheet music as their source material. The resulting artworks are incredibly sophisticated and innovative.”
For example, Selene Perez’s artworks on viewvividly contrast dark and light, and fine lines and densely black forms. In Cantra no LLores, 2014, marker and watercolor on paper, 30 x 22 inches, a thick black band, which resembles the top of an eighth note, separates two different registers. In the upper register, Perez repeats the half notes over and over. In the lower register, Perez twists and turns quarter and eighth notes.
While Perez rearranges notes on the page, Hung Kei Shiu deconstructs the notes entirely in works like Untitled, 2015, marker and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches. In taking apart the visual aspects of the source material, sheet music is turned into Shiu’s signature tiny marks, hatched lines, and miniscule circles to create energized compositions.
Ana Marie Vidalon takes a more gestural response to sheet music. Known for her compulsive repetition, Vidalon fills the entire picture plane with abstract typographical musical notation, accompanied by bold design and color. In works like Untitled, 2014, marker and watercolor on paper, 13 x 18 inches, Vidalon layers notes rendered in a loose style with washes of gray and blue watercolor.
Artworks in the exhibition are grouped according to artist with eight separate “bridges” transitioning one design approach to the next. (Each artist selected a different aspect of the source material in which to transform into their own personal artistic style.) The result is a rich and varied landscape of shapes, color, movement, and form.
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