NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announced the opening of On Another Note: The Intersection of Art and Music. This exhibition, curated by Alva Greenberg, features more than 40 works of art inspired by music, ranging from paintings and photographs to assemblage, glass, sculpture and video. The exhibition is on view December 2, 2017 – March 11, 2018.

Music has become a constant companion in people’s daily lives. There is no escaping it. In elevators, in waiting rooms, in restaurants, and through ear buds, everyone’s lives are lived with a sound track as background noise. Visual artists are no different, as it is not unusual for them to have music playing in their studios as they create. Some artists have embraced the challenge of making it the core of their creative process by turning music into visual manifestations.

Each artist in the exhibition has a different way of incorporating music into their art. For some the approach is as direct as transposing a specific piece of music into an artwork or an instrument into a sculpture. It can also be as obtuse as using a natural phenomenon—stars in the sky or the edge of a rock formation—to create notes on a staff. Some involve a composer using pictographic notation to create a musical score or to illustrate a traditional score with an internal form of notation. The variety is as extensive as the mediums presented.

Included in the exhibition are works by Mark Applebaum, Kinan Azmeh, Kevork Mourad, Jane Benson, Harry Bertoia, John Boone, Luke DuBois, Carlos Estevez, Michael Fairfax, Ana Flores, Charles Gaines, Anita Glesta, Maria Elena Gonzalez, Michael Hamad, Ann Hamilton, Kira Lee, Glenda Leon, Whitfield Lovell, Ellen Priest, Robert Kushner, and Kurt Steiger.

Through the artists’ explorations, On Another Note: The Intersection of Art and Music, hopes to broaden the viewer’s perception of how music can inspire the making of art as well as to open them to the vast variety of ways in which it can be made visual.