Chords and Progressions: Works on Jazz by Wren Panzella

For years now, in clubs, I have been sketching Jazz musicians performing, and I fill sketchbooks with gesture drawings of these artists making Jazz. Using these drawings as a starting place, I abstract from them, often employing a multi-point perspective and/or perspectives from different moments to give visual expression to the movement and connectedness of the music.

Jazz is America's most important contribution to international culture, and it is my hope that my work contributes in some way to the appreciation of Jazz.

I am interested in music of all cultures, and in the human figure moving through music in dance. It is my intention in my artwork to create a figurative, sensual, and visual art form.
--Wren Panzella