Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Keico Watanabe 'Jazz Sounds of New York City #1082' mixed media on canvas $3,400 The horizontal placement of skyscrapers bleeding into the sky leads our gaze to blue and yellow stars that illuminate and transform the skyline, with hearts, flowers, musical instruments, and human and animal figures scrawled into the buildings. Our eye is then drawn to the center of the canvas, where light creates a welcoming entry into the joyful, lyrical narrative, and then to the ground which appears almost aquatic, with green tones hinting at lily pads. Tokyo-born Keico Watanabe , who recently began focusing on live art performances in collaboration with a jazz pianist, celebrates her love of New York City in a blue, yellow, and green iteration of Jazz Sounds of New York City #1082 .
The mixed media on canvas is a highlight of the 32nd Annual National Arts Club (NAC) Roundtable Exhibition, showcasing a wide array of works by members and their guests, including established and emerging artists. It’s an excellent opportunity to purchase works directly from artists at accessible prices. The exhibition is on view at the NAC ’s Trask Gallery at the club in the Tilden Mansion in New York’s charming Gramercy Park, through June 28.
Last year’s show included an oil painting by Billy Dee Williams. On separate walkthroughs of the gallery last Wednesday night, my 14-year-old son Michael Alexander, and I were both captivated by Watanabe’s wor.
