Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sol Studio Art Happenings
Sol Studio Art Happenings. 2008-2009
05/02/09.Underground Progressive Jazz with Sam Ezzeldin Trio, surprise guest on Bass. Art Works by Junko Otsu.
03/29/09. Jazz Night Out. Underground Progressive Jazz with Sam Ezzeldin Trio. Art Works by Ximena Mariel, Neva Everett & Fredo Salazar
02/09. Jazz Night Out with Sam Ezzeldin, Buddy Mahmed & Bo Thomas. House artist. Solange Mariel.
12/08. Pre-New Year House Concert with Sam Ezzeldin, Buddy Mahmed & Bo Thomas. House artist. Solange Mariel
10/08. Cat's Night Out. Tuesday Night Jazz with Sam Ezzeldin, Johnathan Fisher & Bo Thomas.
Past Happenings at Routh Street Studio.
2004-2006. Artists Night Out. Spoken Word with poet and MC Will Richie. Faint Image Back up band for spoken word performances. Vickie and Richard Blackwell. House artist. Solange Mariel
2005. "La muerte y la doncella". A play performed by Teatro de los Artistas. Directed
by Beatriz Mariel.
2005. A Reporter's Diary by Gustavo Mariel. Television Network & Correspondent speaks about the works he produced while covering some of his most impacting news events such as the EZLN uprising in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994; the Iraq War in 2003 where he was the only Spanish language television reporter embedded with the US military during the invasion and his work while covering the US-Mexico border for the last decade.
2005. Pulmoneto Scenic performance by Ana Celia Alvarez and Ignacio Guevara.
2004. Blues by Pops Carter.
05/02/09.Underground Progressive Jazz with Sam Ezzeldin Trio, surprise guest on Bass. Art Works by Junko Otsu.
03/29/09. Jazz Night Out. Underground Progressive Jazz with Sam Ezzeldin Trio. Art Works by Ximena Mariel, Neva Everett & Fredo Salazar
02/09. Jazz Night Out with Sam Ezzeldin, Buddy Mahmed & Bo Thomas. House artist. Solange Mariel.
12/08. Pre-New Year House Concert with Sam Ezzeldin, Buddy Mahmed & Bo Thomas. House artist. Solange Mariel
10/08. Cat's Night Out. Tuesday Night Jazz with Sam Ezzeldin, Johnathan Fisher & Bo Thomas.
Past Happenings at Routh Street Studio.
2004-2006. Artists Night Out. Spoken Word with poet and MC Will Richie. Faint Image Back up band for spoken word performances. Vickie and Richard Blackwell. House artist. Solange Mariel
2005. "La muerte y la doncella". A play performed by Teatro de los Artistas. Directed
by Beatriz Mariel.
2005. A Reporter's Diary by Gustavo Mariel. Television Network & Correspondent speaks about the works he produced while covering some of his most impacting news events such as the EZLN uprising in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994; the Iraq War in 2003 where he was the only Spanish language television reporter embedded with the US military during the invasion and his work while covering the US-Mexico border for the last decade.
2005. Pulmoneto Scenic performance by Ana Celia Alvarez and Ignacio Guevara.
2004. Blues by Pops Carter.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Sol Studio Art showcases works by visual artists: Ximena Mariel, Neva Everett & Alfredo Salazar
On March 29th, 2009 Sol Studio Art was proud to showcase works by three new young artists and students of Brookhaven Community College. All three have been accepted to the Art Institute Of Chicago.
Ximena Mariel works in fiber, her installation titled The Summer Game was inspired by an actual underwater game where the artist as the main character dives to the bottom of a pool taking with her an orange patio chair. Pushing the boundaries of the imagination, Ximena utilizes threads and photographs taken of herself underwater with the chair. The instalation has a web like quality thus enticing the viewer to a closer inspection. The piece is a part 1 of a line of stories Ximena intends to tell. According to the artist her work is about the process, the materials and the meaning they convey. She uses herself as the subject of her themes in a portrait like manner.
Alfredo Salazar is a sculptor working in wood and plaster, Salazar confronts us with hands and eyes peeking and poking through organic forms. There is a hidden message in every piece, their forms transform as you walk around them. There is a truth and respect to materials where their nature is not hidden, plaster is plaster and wood is wood. As stated by the artist "it is about the duality between conflict and resolution."
Neva Everett showcased drawings, paintings and b/w photographs. Her Self Portrait in charcoal exemplifies her drawing skills and complements her b/w photographs of people, places and things. Her paintings display a certain surrrealism as her themes. Her palette is warm and yet neutral, her subjects seem to stare at you from all angles.
Ximena Mariel works in fiber, her installation titled The Summer Game was inspired by an actual underwater game where the artist as the main character dives to the bottom of a pool taking with her an orange patio chair. Pushing the boundaries of the imagination, Ximena utilizes threads and photographs taken of herself underwater with the chair. The instalation has a web like quality thus enticing the viewer to a closer inspection. The piece is a part 1 of a line of stories Ximena intends to tell. According to the artist her work is about the process, the materials and the meaning they convey. She uses herself as the subject of her themes in a portrait like manner.
Alfredo Salazar is a sculptor working in wood and plaster, Salazar confronts us with hands and eyes peeking and poking through organic forms. There is a hidden message in every piece, their forms transform as you walk around them. There is a truth and respect to materials where their nature is not hidden, plaster is plaster and wood is wood. As stated by the artist "it is about the duality between conflict and resolution."
Neva Everett showcased drawings, paintings and b/w photographs. Her Self Portrait in charcoal exemplifies her drawing skills and complements her b/w photographs of people, places and things. Her paintings display a certain surrrealism as her themes. Her palette is warm and yet neutral, her subjects seem to stare at you from all angles.
The Five Peace Band at the House Of Blues in Dallas
.March 31, 2009, Dallas Texas.
Featuring some of the greatest musicians on the planet: Chick Corea on piano, John Mclaughlin on guitar, Kenny Garrett on sax, Christian McBride on bass and Vinnie Colaiuta on drums in Europe while Brian Blade takes over the drum chair in Asia and on select dates in U.S. the Five Peace Band began playing a world tour in 2008 continuing into 2009.
How special it was for me to be able to go see and hear this jazz supergroup. It was an eclectic night of highly creative music, and what more appropriate timing, two nights after a night of underground progressive jazz at Sol Studio Art. I was finally getting a chance to hear these giants, I now clearly see the influence Chick Corea plays on our house musician and piano player Sam Ezzeldin.
Here I am in a room filled with fans and aspiring jazz musicians all looking up to these giants in a humble and respectfull way. Chick Corea and his Five Peace Band leave another legacy, another inprint, a testimony to both young and old listeners, a call to embrace the sounds that come from within. I am humbled by the experience and gratefull to have been there in the presence of so much talent. I was very lucky to have had the chance to shake hands with Chick Corea and Kenny Garrett which so kindly posed with the few fans that stuck around in the back door waiting for them to come out. But the night was going to surprise us and we were asked to step in and into the VIP room with Christian Mc Bride, it seems he felt he could trust my daughter and I, he needed someone to take some pictures of him with a friend in the vip room. Well the gods have been smiling at us and in we go, following McBride into this hall and into the room. As we enter John Mclaughlin is standing to one corner talking to an old friend it seems, Christian presents us to his friend who gestures with approval, Ximena starts to connect with them in a professional manner and starts the photoshoot. I step back and turn my digital camera to the right, where John with his back to me converses with an Indian man, a musician. I keep my camera on recording the gestures not really paying attention to the conversation yet aware of what they were saying. The musician spoke of John's influence on his music and how John was the main reason to his return to his indian roots, musically speaking. Then, with an utmost reverance he bends down to touch John's shoe as a symbol of respect. John lifts him up and embraces his head in a gentle way telling him not to do that, they seem to understand one another. John realizes that I am recording these moments and turns to the camera asking me if I have recorded it, I confirm, kindly he asks me to stop, he says "no more, i am only telling him a story."
I turn the camera to Christian Mc Bride.
Featuring some of the greatest musicians on the planet: Chick Corea on piano, John Mclaughlin on guitar, Kenny Garrett on sax, Christian McBride on bass and Vinnie Colaiuta on drums in Europe while Brian Blade takes over the drum chair in Asia and on select dates in U.S. the Five Peace Band began playing a world tour in 2008 continuing into 2009.
How special it was for me to be able to go see and hear this jazz supergroup. It was an eclectic night of highly creative music, and what more appropriate timing, two nights after a night of underground progressive jazz at Sol Studio Art. I was finally getting a chance to hear these giants, I now clearly see the influence Chick Corea plays on our house musician and piano player Sam Ezzeldin.
Here I am in a room filled with fans and aspiring jazz musicians all looking up to these giants in a humble and respectfull way. Chick Corea and his Five Peace Band leave another legacy, another inprint, a testimony to both young and old listeners, a call to embrace the sounds that come from within. I am humbled by the experience and gratefull to have been there in the presence of so much talent. I was very lucky to have had the chance to shake hands with Chick Corea and Kenny Garrett which so kindly posed with the few fans that stuck around in the back door waiting for them to come out. But the night was going to surprise us and we were asked to step in and into the VIP room with Christian Mc Bride, it seems he felt he could trust my daughter and I, he needed someone to take some pictures of him with a friend in the vip room. Well the gods have been smiling at us and in we go, following McBride into this hall and into the room. As we enter John Mclaughlin is standing to one corner talking to an old friend it seems, Christian presents us to his friend who gestures with approval, Ximena starts to connect with them in a professional manner and starts the photoshoot. I step back and turn my digital camera to the right, where John with his back to me converses with an Indian man, a musician. I keep my camera on recording the gestures not really paying attention to the conversation yet aware of what they were saying. The musician spoke of John's influence on his music and how John was the main reason to his return to his indian roots, musically speaking. Then, with an utmost reverance he bends down to touch John's shoe as a symbol of respect. John lifts him up and embraces his head in a gentle way telling him not to do that, they seem to understand one another. John realizes that I am recording these moments and turns to the camera asking me if I have recorded it, I confirm, kindly he asks me to stop, he says "no more, i am only telling him a story."
I turn the camera to Christian Mc Bride.
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