Barry Boobis

"Musical Visions" is my body of work, spanning all aspects of music from jazz to rock, from dance to spirit, and beyond. My great grandfather wrote the "Hatikvah," the national anthem of Israel, and my father was a commercial artist, thus the genetic splicing that produced "Musical Visions!" These are paintings of music, with the music being channeled through the abstract, and realism being used to depict the man or woman's relationship with his instrument and body. Before I was a painter and musician, I was a writer, so there is a "river of words" which runs through the art, and thus the text accompanying the pieces is an indivisable part of the artwork, informing the images, and taking them to another conceptual and spiritual level! In my salad days I worked in TV News for ABC-TV and NBC-TV as a writer. I spent some time as a musician, and was a WNEW Prisoner of Rock, and had a regional hit with "Riverside Drive," and my innovative dance tracks were featured on L'Rai Radio in Europe. After being exposed to an intensive regimen of Zen Meditation, I began to "See" the music, and decided to spend my career "painting MUSIC!" The implications are highly spiritual, because we are experiencing the music in another dimension, at a ...

Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A)
City College of New York (CCNY)
City University of New York (C.U.N.Y.)

Musical Visions CURRENTLY on exhibition at the Ward Nasse Gallery in SoHo New York City

2 One Man Shows at the Berkeley Gallery on MADISON AVENUE in NYC

One Man Show at the GALLERY/MUSEUM of WBGO Jazz 88 Headquarters in Newark, New Jersey

One Man Show at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presented by the Newark Arts Council (NAC)

Exhibitions at the Newport Jazz Festival and
Saratago Performing Arts Center (SPAC)

One Man Shows at GRAND CENTRAL
Vanderbilt Hall New York City , and Urban Space Management at Columbus Circle in Manhattan in conjunction with LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ