Nola zirin biography of william

The June Kelly Gallery is pleased to present Nola Zirin in her eleventh exhibition with the gallery.  Her recent work, The Sound of Color, reflects her long-time passion for painting and jazz.

The exhibition will open at 166 Mercer Street on June 6 and remain on view until July 30.

Zirin writes about the process in which �one sense comes through as another.�  The correlation of sound and color is called synesthesia.  For many contemporary artists, she says, color is a subject that affects visual perception and emotional energy.  Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky employed synesthesia, pursuing paintings and lines that mimicked the parallels between sound and color.  �Color influences the soul,� Kandinsky once wrote.  �Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings.  The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another pu