ELLEN PRIEST
ELLEN PRIEST Jazz: Edward Simon’s ‘Venezuelan Suite’ #3 © 2006, Oil and flashe on collaged paper, 42” x 42”
“Jazz: Edward Simon’s ‘Venezuelan Suite’ #1-10” is a series of 10 large paintings. Simon's composition brings Venezuelan song forms and rhythms into jazz.
The four-movement ‘Venezuelan Suite’ was commissioned by Chamber Music America and written in 2005-2006. The first 10 paintings in this series are based on the first two movements: the Joropo and the Merengue.
All of these pictures were completed in 2006, all are oil and flashe on collaged paper, each is 42” x 42.”
On February 24, 2007, Edward Simon’s 7-piece jazz Ensemble Venezuela performed the full Suite in the Main Gallery of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where the paintings were on exhibit.
About Simon’s music: www.edwardsimon.com
Paintings photographed by Rick Echelmeyer.
The four-movement ‘Venezuelan Suite’ was commissioned by Chamber Music America and written in 2005-2006. The first 10 paintings in this series are based on the first two movements: the Joropo and the Merengue.
All of these pictures were completed in 2006, all are oil and flashe on collaged paper, each is 42” x 42.”
On February 24, 2007, Edward Simon’s 7-piece jazz Ensemble Venezuela performed the full Suite in the Main Gallery of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where the paintings were on exhibit.
About Simon’s music: www.edwardsimon.com
Paintings photographed by Rick Echelmeyer.
