Sound and Image: Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors

Westbeth Gallery

55 Bethune Street at Washington Street

New York, NY 10014

(646) 391-4821

February 3 through February 24, 2018

Opening Reception: February 3rd, 6-8 pm

Music in the afternoon: February 11, 4-6pm Special guest: Andrew Bolotowsky, flutist with other fine musicians

Closing festivities: February 24, 4-6 pm featuring jazz vocalist: Molly Pope

Gallery hours: Wednesday, Sunday 1-6pm

www.fedart.org

Jacqueline Sferra Rada, president: 917 364-0973

Deborah Day, exhibition coordinator: 212 754-6767

The Federation of Modem Painters and Sculptors presents Sound and Image, an exhibition at the Westbeth Gallery on the theme of image and music.

In his On the Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky wrote: “Colour is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings.” Ever since Kandinsky likened paint to music, modernists have been thinking hard about the influential ways that visual and music come together.

This exhibition explores the sounds of paint, ink and other media through the works of a group that has been an ensemble for 78 years and whose artists have been and still are fascinated by the coming together of two an forms. founding member Mark Rothko's son Christopher writes about his father: “Music was central to my father's world-to his own aesthetic sensibilities, certainly, but also to the structure and expressive modes he found as a painter. I think it's fair to say he was a painter who aspired to be a musician.”

Interactive links to music are incorporated into the exhibition, as well as music events including an afternoon featuring Andrew Bolotowsky, flutist and son of Federation founder IIya Bolotowsky, on February 11, 2018, 4-6pm in the gallery.