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Jacob Cartwright
Harmonic Canon

May 10 - July 31, 2018
extended through August



Scholes Street Studio is pleased to announce
HARMONIC CANON, an exhibition of paintings by Jacob Cartwright.
 
Jacob Cartwright is an abstract painter who pursues a particular sense of painterly space and musicality in his works.  The work is characterized by a calculated balance between draftsman-like restraint and jazzy velocity.  Process and material are married to the image in a way that is indebted to craft traditions like geometric tilework and weaving.

In his Many Worlds series, the musical underpinnings are made explicit as his abstractions become design elements that integrate text in direct allusion to record sleeves and show bills.  These works reference specific musicians and artists but plant them in fictive groupings and situations, suggesting alternate dimensions filled with lost art and music.

The works in the ongoing series Love without Lovers are non-objective or, as the title suggests, disembodied.  The series takes its title from an un-filmed screenplay by Ingmar Bergman which was found after his death.  The screenplay itself tells the story of an incomplete film with a fragmented narrative.  Similarly, these paintings can be viewed as discrete scenes from a film with no clear beginning or end.

His recent Prismatic Arts Orchestra work pursues the vivacity and spatial dynamics of instrumental ensemble music.  The works are akin to Goethe’s description of architecture as “frozen music” and are in the tradition of  Kandinsky’s concept of painting as “visual chords”.

The shows namesake, the Harmonic Canon, was an instrument built by Harry Partch in 1953.  The instrument was designed with 44 strings, and because the strings were all unisons until a player arranged its mobile bridges.  Partch described the instrument as “like a white canvas to a painter”.

Opening reception May 16, 6pm

with music by
Sam Ospovat's Expressive Olympics

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ALL ABOUT JAZZ
interview

Meet Jacob Cartwright
August 6, 2018

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Installation in progress


Love Without Lovers No.16, 2017, 12x12in














Jacob with Free Jazz great saxophonist Joe McPhee


Francisco Mela rehearsing Anthony Coleman’s Sephardic Tinge for Le Poisson Rouge 10th anniversary concer
featuring Marc Ribot and Los Cubanos Postizos.Jacob Cartwright’s painting “Chang-a-Lang”

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The exhibitions can be seen during concert hours or by appointment.
We are usually on premises so call or text.
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