That wild, jazz intensity shows up in the abstract paintings of Peterson’s “Queens in Motion” series, a collection that portrays black women who sometimes seem to dance off the canvas in a ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — If you are a jazz music and abstract art fan, there's a new spot in town to explore. The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art's new exhibition explores both art forms with American ...

Timed to coincide with the Atlanta Jazz Festival, Overstreet's "Storyville ... both included in "Something to Look Forward To: Abstract Art by 22 Distinguished Americans of African Descent ...

Based in Greenwich Village, Davis soon began to frequent bars where blues and nascent jazz were played ... his first true abstract painting. "My aim," he writes, "was ... to strip a subject ...

Wassily Kandinsky’s 1932 painting Decisive Pink, like much of the early abstract painter’s work ... turn into a trumpet that plays a brief jazz tune. But while this gives players a sense ...

“Abstract painting that addresses subject is what ... while remaining rooted in an African-American identity. “Jazz Band,” from 1948, is a masterpiece that simultaneously suggests the ...

Claude Lawrence in his exhibition ‘Reflections on Porgy & Bess’ at Venus Over Manhattan, 39 Great Jones Street, New York, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Venus Over Manhattan. For the self ...