Join us in celebrating our newest gallery exhibition on the evening of May 17th!
Visited Realms (2023)
A series of graphic scores by Angelica Sanchez
Visited Realms is a visual journey through the landscapes of sound and imagination. Each piece in this series is a graphic score—an abstract, intuitive map that attempts to notate the intangible. These works aim to show and capture the countless places, dimensions, and emotional terrains that the music carries me to. Rather than representing music in a traditional, linear format, these scores translate auditory experience into visual language. They are artifacts of listening, dreaming, and channeling; traces of where the music has taken me—realms both visited and remembered. These scores are not just instructions for sound, but meditations on presence, memory, and movement through inner and outer worlds.
About Angelica Sanchez
Pianist, Composer, and Educator Angelica Sanchez relocated to New York from Arizona in 1995. Since making the move to the East Coast, Sanchez has collaborated with esteemed artists such as Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Motian, Richard Davis, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Nicole Mitchell, and Rob Mazurek, among others. Notably, Sanchez leads various groups, including her latest ensemble, the Nonet.
Her musical contributions have garnered recognition in both national and international publications, including Jazz Times, The New York Times, The Wire, and Downbeat, among others. Sanchez received the 2024 Rockefeller Brothers Pocantico artist residency, the 2022 Civitella Fellowship in Italy and most recently the Jazz Gallery Composition Fellowship.
The piano duo project "How to Turn the Moon," featuring Marilyn Crispell, was voted one of the top 50 best recordings in 2020 by NPR critics. Additionally, her album "Sparkle Beings" was selected by The New York Times as one of the top ten Jazz recordings of 2022. Furthermore, her Nonet record, "Nighttime Creatures," was recognized as one of the "Best recordings in 2023" by Downbeat Magazine.
Angelica Sanchez holds a Master's Degree in Arranging from William Paterson University and currently serves on the faculty at Bard College.
Fire in my Eyes
Photography by Jack Malaby
Jack Malaby is a photographer based in the New York area, known for a style rooted in culture and color. Born and raised in Jersey City, Jack comes from a background shaped by his West Coast Chicano parents, who moved east to pursue jazz and brought with them a deep cultural influence that blended with the rhythms of inner-city life.
His first art show, DOG DAYS, held in Jersey City, was inspired by a trip to the barrios of Tucson during the summer of 2023. His second exhibition, PORTRAITS OF AZUL, presented in Philadelphia in 2024, explored his upbringing in Jersey City.
Jack Malaby’s third and upcoming exhibition, FIRE IN MY EYES, continues his exploration of childhood, community, and family. The photographs on display are drawn from this series and share its title, offering a deeply personal lens into the people and places that shaped him. He currently attends Bard College, where he continues to develop his artistic voice.
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SPONSORSHIP
The Jazz Gallery is a not-for-profit arts organization presenting emerging artists who challenge convention, take creative risks, and lead their field as performers, composers and thinkers. We provide a platform for artists to discover their unique voice and a home for established musicians to continue to experiment and grow. At The Jazz Gallery, artists and audiences come together from around the world to explore new creative ideas, collaborate and celebrate jazz as a dynamic art form that reflects our ever-changing world.
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