BIOGRAPHY
Jeff Schlanger, a native of New York City, graduated from The High School School of Music & Art, and went on to study ceramics under Maija Grotell at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Schlanger, as the moniker 'musicWitness,' has created public art projects on three interrelated subjects: Peace, Resistance to War, and Music.
Schlanger's paintings and sculpture have been part of all nine Arts for Art Vision Festivals held each May in New York. He was also featured as a painter in performance at the Tampere, Finland Jazz Happening 2000 - 2003, in Paris at Sons D'hiver 2004 and as graphic artist in Canada at the Guelph Jazz Festival in 2002. Exhibitions of his work have been held at San Francisco's Intersection for the Arts in 1999, Webster University in St. Louis and the Hunterdon NJ Art Museum.
Schlanger's art in downtown New York performance spaces include four installations at the old Knitting Factory on Houston Street, three permanent pictures in the Leonard Street Knitting Factory, and installations in the Orensanz Art Center on Norfolk. Selections from his war resistance project Chile New York--a black wall of 400 ceramic faces, figures and monumental jars--have been seen in forty installations across the USA including the Everson Museum in Syracuse, Laumier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Bennington College in Vermont and the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC.
Finally, throughout his career, Jeff Schlanger has been asked to create over 30 music album covers at the request of many leading musicians, including Julius Hemphill, Charles Gayle, and William Parker.
Jeff Schlanger, a native of New York City, graduated from The High School School of Music & Art, and went on to study ceramics under Maija Grotell at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Schlanger, as the moniker 'musicWitness,' has created public art projects on three interrelated subjects: Peace, Resistance to War, and Music.
Schlanger's paintings and sculpture have been part of all nine Arts for Art Vision Festivals held each May in New York. He was also featured as a painter in performance at the Tampere, Finland Jazz Happening 2000 - 2003, in Paris at Sons D'hiver 2004 and as graphic artist in Canada at the Guelph Jazz Festival in 2002. Exhibitions of his work have been held at San Francisco's Intersection for the Arts in 1999, Webster University in St. Louis and the Hunterdon NJ Art Museum.
Schlanger's art in downtown New York performance spaces include four installations at the old Knitting Factory on Houston Street, three permanent pictures in the Leonard Street Knitting Factory, and installations in the Orensanz Art Center on Norfolk. Selections from his war resistance project Chile New York--a black wall of 400 ceramic faces, figures and monumental jars--have been seen in forty installations across the USA including the Everson Museum in Syracuse, Laumier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Bennington College in Vermont and the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC.
Finally, throughout his career, Jeff Schlanger has been asked to create over 30 music album covers at the request of many leading musicians, including Julius Hemphill, Charles Gayle, and William Parker.
REFERENCES
Biography adapted from: http://cueartfoundation.org/jeff-schlanger/
Jeff Schlanger's website: http://www.musicwitness.com/index.html
Artwork behind title: Jeff Schlanger's Three Tenors (detail)
Biography adapted from: http://cueartfoundation.org/jeff-schlanger/
Jeff Schlanger's website: http://www.musicwitness.com/index.html
Artwork behind title: Jeff Schlanger's Three Tenors (detail)
