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"I like to produce drawings in response to musical recordings because they provide a set duration as well as a structured pattern that I can listen to and repeat over again to produce a series with a similar size, density and energetic quality. When drawing music, the tension and movements affect the mark-making directly."


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Claire Zakiewicz, The Aesthetics of Improvisation in Music and the Arts, 2020

This work was painted without sight while listening to a piece of recorded music by Steve Reich called Music for Eighteen Musicians.


 

 

 

 

 

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18 Musicians in Blue, on display in studio, 2021

 

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18 Musicians in Blue, 2021
Oil on canvas
73" x 80" (185.5 x 203 cm)

 

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18 Musicians in Blue, 2021
Oil on canvas
Detail

 

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