Our Black is Beautiful Exhibition of New Works at Gallery Guichard
Medium: Acrylic Glaze on paper, Gold Leaf, Gold metallic ink, Collage on foam board
Artwork Label Information:
Title: Vibrational Sound Narrative "Wind Synthesizer"
Artist Name: Alpha Bruton
Dimensions: 30” x 42” x ¾”
Retail Price: $1500
A collage is an artistic composition of various materials (such as paper, cloth, or wood) glued on a surface. Some artists cut pictures from magazines to make a collage. I have taught this type of collage work to students in various workshops over the years. These outcomes are lovely. I have started to manipulate and cut my studies to make a composition. After ten years of wondering how I would present these studies, I have now decided to have fun and just go with the feeling that happens when I'm communicating with the work.
Study:
Black Rock Ensemble,
Nicole Mitchell,
Chicago Cultural Center –
11/19/2009
Study:
#21/200
"Per Aki Homeland" at
Elastic Arts
12/04/07
artist Kent Kessler/Fred Lonbertholm
Study:
#41/200
Brown Rice
12/10/08
artist Steve Hirsh, Joel Wanek
Vibration Sound Narratives was a five-year exploration of various musicians: jazz, improvisational jazz, creative music, electric music, and alternative sound, where she created over 1,000 archived abstract sketches in response to the sound streams of musicians. This was a visual transcription-recording of what she was feeling, hearing, and seeing during these performances. Vibration Sound Narratives are a comprehensive system of patterns or vibrations that teach our bodies at all levels how to have a new experience. They activate a practice similar to "Vi-bra Keys" associated with sound, shape, and image in the context of emotional response and unlock visual-spatial intelligence in the artists among us, who think in pictures.