Compounds Not Required: 29, 47, 13
It's been a joy, to be a part of the show, Compounds Not Required: 29, 47, 13 in the Vulcan Gallery at Building 16, at the Workhouse Arts Cin Lorton, VA. The opening reception will be from 6-8pm on February…
Musica Opening Reception
Gearing up for this year's solo show. I'm doing a lot of graphite on paper works, paintings and will be bringing out the musical stained glass... …
Britt Conley’s Stained Glass with Interactive Musical Light Experience: a concert with Virginia Bronze!
An incredible journey... MUSIC VISUALIZED IN STAINED GLASS FOR “MYSTIC AND MAJESTIC” CONCERT BY VIRGINIA BRONZE It was a year in the making and an amazing artistic journey! In June of 2016 I began talks with Virginia Bronze on collaborating for…
Missa Solemnis
Was thrilled to be in this year's Collectors Showcase at the Workhouse Arts Center. Each year I create a work specifically for the show,…
Strathmore Show : La Vie en Bleu
Really enjoyed the opening reception, on Thursday, January 5th, 2017, in the Strathmore Mansion at the Strathmore Center for the Arts in North Bethesda. The show, "La Vie en Bleu" features the color blue, itself. The piece that juried in, is titled…
Crossroad’s Gallery at Goodwin House
I just wanted to thank everyone for all your support and for coming out to see the works on March 6th at the Crossroad's Gallery at Goodwin House. As I said earlier, during my talk, musicians always have a dancing…
Music as Data
So I've been spending much of my time working on the new show for September. It's titled, Music as Data. The point is addressing music from when it's being recorded all the way to once it's already data and being…
The Tuba Player
Every year we donate one work to the Workhouse Arts Center's Collector's Showcase Gala. Oddly, I tend to put in my best work. Last year I put in a fun work that wasn't my best. I had had the flu…
Rhapsody in Blue Musical Phrasings
On August 8th I had a phenomenal time at the opening for my show at the Workhouse Arts Center. I worked on a series of musical phrasings. All the months it took to get in all the detail worked out…
New Show, New Series.
A wonderful man popped by the studio this weekend asking numerous questions about my visualization structures which prompted an immediate delving discussion on sound-shapes, physics, aesthetics and all that we are exploring in common. Before wrapping up, he added…
Menagerie Musique
Creating a lot of drawings for my next show, set for the 2nd Saturday in August. Exploring, examining and enjoying some graphite. This one was going to be donated to The Workhouse Arts Center Collector's Showcase, but I was…
Jazz Envisioned the blogpost
Jazz Envisioned: A Collaborative Musical/Art Evening Featuring the Jazz Interpreted Paintings and Drawings of Britt Conley and the original jazz compositions of John Kocur, Kevin Pace, Gene D'Andrea and Cristopher Galvan from our opening on November 8th from 6-9pm at…
Jazz composition for John Kocur
Working on the finishing touches on this piece for my show this week at the Workhouse Art's Center in Lorton, Virginia. I've picked four Washington D.C. area Jazz composers and created a painting for each that represents the persona of…
Counter Weights and Balances
A lovely, lovely day in the studio. Currently working on a massive jazz series. It's only 4 works, but they are large and infinitely chewable, which means complexity abounds. Not the best for deadline work! But the best for me…
Percolating Sound
So much has happened this past year. July marked a great turning point. This year I was lucky enough to be incorporated into a studio that I absolutely love. I'm at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia. It's amazing. …
Drawing Show!!!
Well, after a few years and a lot of drawing, much that was never posted, I'm finally having a drawing show. at the Lorton Workhouse Arts Center Studios, where I've been happily creating away. Busy working a massive visual musical…
Creative Seeds
Today's drawing is Creative Seeds. It's about laying the ground work for what will be my artistic future. The ideas's that I've never been able to logistically bring to fruition can now be easily executed, due to my new studio!!!…
The Tuba Player
I was just going through my drawings, organizing things and realized I had never posted this. It's part of a series on music, well, part of a subset group that will be on musicians playing. All is well and very…
Entanglements Within
Despite the lack of postings here, I'm in the middle of doing some really wonderful and far more complex works than what I've been posting the past few years. That said, it's a private world until it's all complete. It…
One Fish, Two Fish…
I've been busy working on several large scale musical works. They are nearly 4 feet each and coming along swimmingly :) Despite the rather quick structural ease of each, the detailing is taking a couple of months. As with most…
Beakered Bliss
One of the beautifully lovely things about my current experimentations is that each piece feels like a perfectly beakered bit of bliss. Each work is a small player within a visual philosophic problem I'm attempting to find solutions to. This…
Audile ecstasy, symphonic bound
Much thought went into this and the others of this series. I think I'll just let it poise itself for flight and keep the thought behind this mum for a bit. Britt
The Excalibur
The Excalibur... the thing I love about it, is you know if you're the one and probably know before hand :) Creating is very similar. When you have your own voice there is no need to stumble around looking and…
Trance-posing Me
Today I sat at the piano and instead of working on someone els's stuff, I worked on a piece I wrote on the drive in. Getting into the keyboard went exceptionally well and it really felt fluid, like sea water…
Impetuous Potential
Down and Dirty. This is a quick and messy sketch that will need to be realized again on better and larger paper. Today's drawing is a culmination of numerous circumstances that keep slamming my brain on occasion. Last night another…
Courtly Love
Courtly Love: a love worth the greatest efforts one has to give, the farthest wishes one has to hope for, and the greatest prize one can reach for. It is elegant, upstanding, demanding and life changing and all with the…
Music, The Making of…
From top to bottom: Notes fall from the staff into the realm of instrumentation, are converted into sounds while being played before being put toward the listener's perception as a lovely ballet of melodic line. I have to clean this…
Billiards and Bobs
What I love about this is that I tried something new in my arrangement: I placed a center-weight. My work is designed on a very intricate balance like musical notes and they are not centrally placed on purpose. Each line…
A Long Shot
One of the great possibilities that can manifest itself in competition of any kind is the long shot. It doesn't just figure in the event itself, It's the configuration of how one gets themselves to that very moment. It's the…
Disorderly Conductive and the Compressionist
A representation of a piano and all the percussive twings, twangs and melodic strikes from all piano music played over it's existence, compressed in time. I was going to add three pedals below, but am still considering the composition at…
Darwinings: A Martian Parcheesi
Not sure if I'm winning or losing this game in life but I'm tired of going around the board. Had a pipe burst and long story short I'm moving my entire book, vinyl, cd, dvd etc..., etc... collection over to…
Sea Scape Scrabble
A little fun after a long week of pitfalls and ponderings. Will be posting the entire story tomorrow. Just needed to have a bit of fun, let loose and dream of the sea, sun and all the fun one has…