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Charly Palmer
High Notes, Blue Notes & Honky Tonk
The exhibition features 15 paintings of seminal figures who have shaped music history and have inspired the artist. Palmer brings together on canvas his transformative interpretation of some of the
most respected music icons of our time celebrating the marriage between music and visual art and the influence both have on each other. Going beyond the expected boundaries of the culture, he outlines his undying
passion and love for music and pays tribute to musical influences as broad and diverse as Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin and Country Goddess Patsy Cline.
Palmer’s painted music portraits combine realism and stylistic devices to describe his
relationship with the artists and music that have moved and inspired him. With his stained glass motif he finds a visual representation of the organized cacophony and improvisational aspect of music such as jazz and
also a fitting visual trope for a pixelated digital age, a means to contemporize the immortal music icons he paints.
Charly Palmer was born in 1960 in Fayette, Alabama, raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and educated at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy of Art, receiving a BFA in 1982. He has been the subject of over twenty solo exhibitions and has been included in numerous group exhibitions in
galleries across the United States. In addition to his painting career, Palmer has been a successful graphic designer and illustrator. His work can be found in private and public collections that include Atlanta
Life Insurance, McDonald’s Corporation, Miller Brewing Company, the Coca Cola Company and Vanderbilt University. He has been the recipient of significant commissions including an official poster for the 1996
Olympics and the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau. He currently lives and works in Atlanta.
The exhibition series at Aloft Harlem features an exhibition by a solo artist each
month and is a collaboration between Atlanta-based Avisca Fine Art Gallery and Aloft Harlem hotel with major sponsorship provided by MobiXpay, the Harlem-based mobile loyalty rewards app developer.
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