SHOWS

ART/SONG @ FigmentNYC

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 22:03:35 -0400

Visual Music Exhibition by Lisa Ingram | www.lisaingram.com & composer Jay Alan Zimmerman | www.jayalanzimmerman.com June 11 & 12th at figmentnyc. 
On June 11th and 12th, Lisa Ingram and Jay Alan Zimmerman will be exhibiting a traveling version of their ART/SONG installation recently seen in Times Square.

Focusing on audience participation, this version will let visitors have their voices converted into paintings based on actual frequency analysis imagery generated by special computer programs.

To see the kind of art that will be created, visit the ART/SONG flickr pages.

ART/SONG

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:50:09 -0400

Visual Music Exhibition & Performances by Lisa Ingram | www.lisaingram.com & composer Jay Alan Zimmerman | www.jayalanzimmerman.com February 23 - March 16, 2010 at chashama TIMES SQUARE. 
more info from the article at BROADWAY WORLD:

“Broadway singers will have their voices converted into imagery during a free performance and exhibition series at chashama's Times Square Gallery, Feb. 23rd through March 16th.
Using layered video projections of real-time frequency analysis software, deaf composer Jay Alan Zimmerman (Incredibly Deaf Musical, Smokin!, J@Z at the Zipper) will rehearse and present songs from his shows while attempting to re-train his brain to "hear" the shapes created by the voices of Ryan Allen, Raissa Katona Bennett (Phantom), Melvin Bell III (Black Nativity), Emily Cramer, Andrea Dora (Tarzan), Kelly Ellenwood (Phantom), Matt Lutz, Sierra Rein, Gabrielle Stravelli, and violinists Blair Lawhead, Bryony Straud-Watson, and Heather Vixler.
Called Art/Song, the project is a collaboration with abstract painter Lisa Ingram, who has further interpreted these vocal images of vowels and phonemes into a series of watercolor paintings and collaborated with Zimmerman on an installation of his destroyed synthesizers.
Open rehearsals will be every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon with free performances at 7pm. The gallery will be open Tuesday through Saturday, 2-7pm, with some artworks and multimedia installations on view 24 hours a day.
For more information, visit www.musicbyJAZ.com and www.chashama.org.
Jay Alan Zimmerman is the composer and author of several original musicals including his Incredibly DEaF Musical, which was a Washington Post "Pick of the Fringe" at DC's Capital Fringe Festival. In addition he composed the music for the plays Booth and Our Brutus which were both Fringe First Award winners at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the award-winning score for the dancefilm Do Not Call It Fixity featured at the Pompidou in Paris, and a multi-media symphony, Roboticus, created during a residency with the LEMUR musical robots.  Lisa Ingram paintings were recently exhibited in New York at FusionArts Museum and Al Johnson Art in Greenwich Village, and are represented by the art dealers SoHo Myriad in Los Angeles and Atlanta. Her numerous corporate collectors include Disney, Guggenheim Productions, and Mariott.”

VISUAL CONVERSATIONS

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:30:34 -0400

CHASHAMA 461 GALLERY is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by resident artist, Lisa Ingram. “Visual Conversations” explores the patterns, rhythms, and dynamics of speech, music, and daily activities. Ingram’s interest in these elements of sound heightened when her longtime collaborator and husband, the composer Jay Alan Zimmerman, became deaf.
The exhibition features a 20 foot installation of watercolors—covering the east wall of the gallery—as well as several oil paintings. Each work explores sound through various nuances of color, pattern, and shape, and shows a playful exuberance through bright pigments and textural layering.
The opening reception will embrace this playful perspective with a party atmosphere of drinks, food, and music. At 8pm, Mr. Zimmerman will premiere his new 20-minute musical film, EVIL EYE — a vibrant adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe‘s “The Tell Tale Heart” with integrated captions for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
CHASHAMA supports emerging and underrepresented artists by providing one of the most elusive commodities in New York City: space to create. Chashama works with landlords and developers to identify underutilized real estate, which the owner is willing to donate on a short-term, temporary basis, preferring to see underutilized space put to good use, looked after, and maintained while they are awaiting commercial tenants.