Suzanne Cerny
has been painting jazz musicians since 1986, having begun to sketch the Vince Wallace Quartet at the Sea Gull Bar in
Mendocino, CA. Later she was a member of the Jazz Hall Club in Santa Barbara, California.
Over a three year period, Suzanne sketched the musicians live during performance. She called her gig Drawing in the Dark. She completed about 200 such drawings and was written up in the Santa Barbara Independent
several times during the three years of continuing jazz performances at the small jazz club on Victoria St. The wonderful
jazz performers who drove from L.A. for the evenings of incredible original
jazz music ought to be assembled into a book by the club owner, and I would contribute a lot of drawings as well as photos.
The musicians came from New
York, Boston, Chicago,
New Orleans, Mississippi as well as England,
Japan, Puerto Rico, Cuba
and Brazil. Suzanne was able to speak with the performers
after hours and have the small pieces signed by the artists. She reminisces that the performers used to look around at the
walls of her work and see themselves and their friends posted there while they were paused during the solos.
From 2001-2005, Suzanne sketched in clubs in Tucson, Arizona.
There she became friends with jazz pianist Larry Redhouse, of Navajo origin. Larry also contributes to traditional Navajo
performance, along with other Redhouse musicians, and they work various contemporary and traditional instruments.
Please see the latest jazz illustrations for Suzanne at
http://www.jazz.com/gallery/suzanne-cerny
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Jazz.com is delighted to present the artwork of Suzanne Cerny. Inquiries about licensing, purchase or
reproduction of her works can be sent to galleries@jazz.com
A contract with an online art gallery, IGI, brought Suzanne
$2,000 for a pastel of Louis Armstrong. 250 Giclee prints were created by IGI and sold during a one year period to IGI members.
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REPRESENTATION:
In Lafayette, California:
Contact The Magic Window:
Temple Hernlund::: 925-284-8802
In Tucson, Arizona,
Contact Florine Duffield
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florineduffield@hotmail.com
972-537-4136
