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American Duet: Jazz & Abstract Art features 30 modern and contemporary artists working in abstraction through various media. This exhibition surveys the convergence of jazz and abstract art as two essential art forms in the United States. Curated from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, the featured 50 plus works create a visual symphony of harmonies, colors, skats, bops, strokes, and riffs.

Jazz, as a musical genre, and abstract art, as an artistic movement, simultaneously rose to prominence throughout the 20th century, with African American artists and musicians at the vanguard. Through these experimental frameworks, a dialogue developed between the expressive visual language of the abstract artist and the complex rhythmic compositions of the jazz musician. This new creative exchange integrated jazz sensibilities into artistic culture inciting artists to translate sound to color, note to line, and silence to void.

Countless visual artists continue to engage the fresh rhythms and energy of jazz music in their work—listening while creating in the studio, befriending musicians, even bringing their canvases and materials to clubs. Presenting the spontaneous, vibrant, improvisational characteristics of jazz and abstract art, these selected works showcase the enduring artistic resonance of two genres, intertwined.