Tag Team Mixed Taste Lectures On Unrelated Topics
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver has a fascinating lecture series with the catchy title of Tag Team Mixed Taste Lectures On Unrelated Topics.
I attended one of the lectures in mid July with Hilliard More, Art Dealer and owner of Great Western Art Gallery where I show my paintings. The topic was Fractals and Vance Kinkland.
Both Hilliard and I are members of the Vance Kirkland Museum so were eager to hear its’ Director and Curator, Hugh Grant, talk about his friend Vance.
The supposedly unrelated topic on Fractals was presented by Nicholas Ormes, a Math Prof. at Denver University. From my perspective these topics were uncannily more related than one would generally think.
To quote from the succinct overview of Vance Kirkland on the museum web site, he “saw musical explosions and vibrations, mysteries and forces, rhythmic and discordant, in his imagined galaxies and had the artist’s drive to capture these visions on canvas.”
The reason for my deep interest with the paintings and unusual techniques of Kirkland is that both of us have been blessed with the gift of Synesthesia.
My particular gift allows me to see music as colors, shapes and texture in layers as I hear it. This works both ways: I can see certain art (abstract and non objective) paintings and hear music.
Paintings of Kirkland were imaged on the wall during Hugh Grant’s lecture. When I saw his works depicting his vision of the Nebulae I heard very clearly “The Music Of The Spheres.”
The image here is Vance Kirkland in front of one of his paintings. Can you see the Music of the Spheres in his painting?
Awesome, to say the least.
