work by artist Tom Seltzer
Dizzys, 230 5th Avenue, Brooklyn
May 5 – November 3, 2013
Jazz performance , May 30 @ 7pm, Dizzys, 230 Fifth Avenue Brooklyn NY 11217

Artist Statement- The prints in this collection are the result of my lifetime love, and complete inability to play, jazz. Last year, in a moment of the inevitable frustration that comes with being an illustrator and graphic designer, I cast around to find a subject I could dig into that felt truly personal. I somehow hit upon the idea of Thelonious Monk. I wanted to capture both his likeness and come up with a visual equivalent for his chunky, angular music. It was so satisfying that I sought out other subjects – Mingus’s melodic abstractions, Duke Ellington’s modernist classicism, Charlie Parker’s whiplash virtuosity, Dizzy Gillespie’s whipsaw athleticism – and about a half dozen other favorites.