Are there visual artists who aren’t inspired by music? Galleries and museums regularly post playlists to accompany exhibitions and music references pop up constantly, suggesting that music is a presence behind much visual art produced today. That relationship steps to the fore in Gabriel Orozco’s show of paintings at Marian Goodman Gallery in Tribeca, a body of work for which he transcribed his improvisational piano playing as a system of multi-colored circular forms. Similar to previous painting series for which he followed a system of laying down and repeating circular forms then added color through a method inspired by a knight’s movement in chess, the artist generates the current paintings’ forms through a system. According to Orozco, the resulting horizontally oriented forms could be read and played by musicians or appreciated visually and aurally through Vimeo links on the gallery’s checklist. (On view through Oct 25th).
