“Visited Realms” by Angelica Sanchez
& ”Fire in my Eyes” by Jack Malaby

on view: MAY - SEPTEMBER 2025

Bend into Tomorrow by Angelica Sanchez

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:

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 (2025)
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.

Ecstasy by Jack Malaby

 

Music Makers by Fabian Almazan

on view: January - April 2025

About the Exhibition

During a year and a half in Western Australia amid the pandemic, I captured images of endemic birds, often encountering the same cockatoo families. Each photograph in this exhibit juxtaposes these Australian birds with images of recently extinct species, underscoring the ongoing sixth mass extinction. Currently pursuing a PhD at Harvard, I am focusing on the intersection of music, climate change, and the Anthropocene. My aim is to highlight the interconnectedness of all Earth’s inhabitants. Through “Music Makers,” I encourage you to recognize these beings as co-inhabitants of our delicate planet, cultivating a deeper connection between humans and other living beings.

Small Prints, frame included: $250; $150 for students with valid ID
Large Print, frame included: $1500; $1000 for students with valid ID

Rudy Royston

A Drummer’s Perspective: Behind the Drums, Behind the Scene

on view: September - December 2024

About the Exhibition

For me as a performer there are two worlds: the world experienced by the audience and the one I experience as a performer.  My experience encompasses the entire macrocosm of a musician/performer.  I experience much of what the audience cannot.  Whereas the audience views and interacts with the musicians almost entirely from in front of the stage, my vantages and experiences are almost entirely from behind the drums and other private, more personal settings behind the scenes.  At events, when I am not presently playing I am generally watching and shooting photos from the side and back of the stage or in staging areas, greenrooms and other offstage spaces.

About the Artist

Sometime in early 2018, while dabbling with taking instagram photos with my android cellphone, I began to develop a love for photography. This love was solidified before the years end when I received a little Nikon point and shoot as a Christmas gift from my wife and kids. I thought of photography the same way I think of music: all styles and genres are good and they all help inform the style of music I play most. Photography for me was the same. I took photos of everything, experimenting with everything from still life to street to landscape to portraits…anything I could capture I captured…and still do.

Though I had been working as a professional musician since the late 80’s I didn’t start touring nationally or internationally until moving east from Colorado in 2006. By 2020, with a newer Fuji camera in hand, I began documenting the many people and places to which I now had access. 

I often found myself frustrated because I saw so many shots I wished I could take while I was in the process of playing the drums. I started keeping my camera close and sometimes, between songs or even between choruses, I would shoot (being careful to maintain a low profile and my professionalism as a musician!) From this vantage point I was able to capture a relatively unique perspective: the musicians and performance from behind the drums—you’ll notice a part of my cymbal in many of these photos. What started as a somewhat frustrating practice soon became a perspective that gifted me with an awareness of the human qualities of my peers and the excitement of capturing the exchange of energies between musicians and between musicians and audiences. Of course the time spent performing is just a small part of being a musician. Many other photographs in this show were taken in green rooms, backstage at festivals and clubs, and in rehearsals. 

Over the past five years I have had prints published in magazines, as album covers, for advertising products, restaurants, food, portraits, etc., but this is my first full scale show. I’m grateful to The Jazz Gallery for this opportunity to share my perspective with you and I look forward to more photos and the lessons the camera and those who inspire and teach me will bring about life, love, humanity, beauty and art.

The Rooms in Our Heads

The Rooms in Our Heads is a site-specific short animation project created for the Jazz Gallery based on the artist’s random conversations with musicians, artists, and patrons at the Jazz Gallery on the topic of “What is Jazz?”. The animation runs in small loops for different points of view and uses types of space as a representation. My work is mostly sketches, conceptual drawings, and model making. As It mainly focuses on capturing words, conversations, and feelings in which languages can not be well-explained. Trying to visualize or recreate them helps me understand myself and the world better. And it also challenges you to unlearn what you had always believed and look at things from different perspectives.

Jan Suphitcha - Bio

Suphitcha Jan Donsrichan is a Bangkok-born, multidisciplinary artist with an architectural background. She received her MPS from the Interactive Telecommunications Program - ITP, Tisch School of Art, NYU in 2021 and is currently interested in how new media can help us to improve storytelling and the way we communicate with each other. Suphitcha now lives and works in New York.

 
 

 The Jazz Gallery Benefit Art Sale is now on!
April 16 - 27, 2024


With all proceeds supporting our new Educational Program!

Artwork is either available for sale in-person
unframed for $50 or framed for $100 (or pay more = support more!), see some of what we have below!

or by auction (with bids starting at $100)
online & in-person in our lounge!

VISIT THE ONLINE AUCTION & PLACE YOUR BIDS HERE!

All Artwork has been generously donated to The Jazz Gallery over the years, and we hope it will all find a happy home so that we can continue our work of sharing jazz with the youngest generation of musicians, listeners, and supporters!

Come to The Jazz Gallery to check out what we have
during Box Office hours (7pm - 10pm on evenings we have shows)
or visit the Online Auction!

The Jazz Gallery - Where The Future Is Present!

 

$100 SALE!

All of these items are for sale for $100 (pay more if you wish!). If you would like to purchase one online, please pay here and send a screenshot of the item to declan@jazzgallery.org. All items will need to be picked up at The Jazz Gallery, NYC.

$50 SALE!

All of these items are for sale for $50 (pay more if you wish!). If you would like to purchase one online, please pay here and send a screenshot of the item to declan@jazzgallery.org. . All items will need to be picked up at The Jazz Gallery, NYC.

    THIS WOMAN’S WORK
A Celebration of Women in Music
Part Two

I love music . I’ve always loved music. It gives us life. It comforts us in our time of need. Music has always had a huge presence in my life, my mom sang me Beatles songs and my grandmother sang me folk songs. My first concert was at the age of 4. The radio in our house was always on, playing anything from jazz, blues, country, to folk and rock n’ roll.  I spent my childhood listening for my favorite songs to come on so I could record them.

Most of what I heard came from men, not all, but most. I collected records, went to hundreds of concerts, and eventually began to photograph them. My love for music continued to grow but something was missing. Where was my voice?  My perspective?  There has to be more women.  I began my search and discovered that they were there, I just had to dig a little.   

When I think of a lineup at a music festival, or a club’s listing of performances, they are filled with remarkable talent, but it’s unbalanced.  Where are the women?  I know they are out there, because I’ve seen them, heard them, and bought their music.

As I looked through my catalog of photographs, I realized I had so many images of prolific women; they had always been there. That’s why I began this project, to shine a light on women. This is one of what will be a three to four part series of photographs taken over the years of inspiring women working in the music business.  This second part focuses on women in music.  There are so many stories to tell.  I want to hear more.  I can only hope that this inspires you to seek out their voices.  

This project is dedicated to my mother who first introduced me to the joy of music.
Candace Gallagher 1948 - 2021

KYRA KVERNO

Kyra Kverno is a New York City based photographer who is widely known for her music and portrait work.

Kyra was born and raised in California.  As a young girl, she spent a lot of time with her grandmother, who would become the first person to ignite her passion for photography.  One summer her grandmother had gifted her a camera she had found at a rummage sale, a film camera, and so began the love affair with photography - most especially black and white.  Primarily self taught, her career began shooting friend’s bands, stills for independent movies, and anything else she could find to hone her skills.

Kyra has a keen eye for capturing those tiny and precious moments that happen so fast, most of us miss them.  Because of the astute observer that she is, and her love and respect for her subjects, she is able to truly embody the essence of each person within her images.

She has spent the last 20 years traveling all over, from New Orleans to Iceland, shooting incredible artists, some who are internationally recognized, and some just making a name for themselves, in several of the most renowned clubs and music festivals.  She has covered the Siren Music Festival, Outside Lands, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans Voodoo Fest, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Brooklyn’s Afropunk Festival, MerleFest and Iceland Airwaves.  Her work has been featured in Jazz Times, Uncut, Q, CNN, Guitar Player magazine to name a few.  Her years of experience and unique style continue to attract some of today’s most accomplished musicians.

Kyra lives in Brooklyn with her dog Dinah. 

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