EXCLUSIVE ONLINE EXHIBITION OF HERB ALPERT’S COFFEE PAINTINGS AT HEATHER JAMES FINE ART

EXCLUSIVE ONLINE EXHIBITION OF HERB ALPERT’S COFFEE PAINTINGS AT HEATHER JAMES FINE ART
Virtual Exhibition of Herb Alpert’s Coffee Painting Series
Image courtesy of Heather James Fine Art
“Exploring my creativity is not a hobby for me,
it’s a way of life.”
Herb Alpert
The exclusive online exhibition of coffee paintings by renowned Jazz musician and visual artist Herb Alpert is on view now at Heather James Fine Art.
The series of paintings has a sweet origin story. Alpert noted, “I wanted to get my organic conscious daughter a housewarming gift and thought about painting something with organic coffee. Not only did I have fun, it opened up a new door for expressing myself.”
Discover all of the works and installation images:
HERB ALPERT
Covid City
2020
Signed verso, “Herb Alpert © 2020 #2896 “Covid City””
coffee on canvas
36 x 72 in.
37795
HERB ALPERT
Black Horizon
2017
Signed verso, “2017 Herb Alpert Black Horizon”
acrylic and coffee on canvas
48 x 72 in.
16095
HERB ALPERT
Stormy Monday
2018
Signed verso, “Herb Alpert ‘Stormy Monday'” and dated, “2018”
coffee on canvas
36 x 48 in.
22486
HERB ALPERT
Passer By
2014
Signed verso, “Herb Alpert” acrylic and coffee on canvas
48 x 36 in.
16092
Herb Alpert stands with his “Totem” series of sculptures at the
Jackson Hole Wildlife Museum.
ABOUT HERB ALPERT
Herb Alpert is an American Jazz musician who maintains a second career as a abstract expressionist painter and sculptor. During the height of his music career, he began painting, and in the early 1980s, he began to sculpt as well. His paintings and sculpture, though a different art form, still speak to his love of music and his musical style. His sculpture has been termed “lyrical” and his latest works are meant to capture the feeling he gets when he plays jazz. They are improvisational, much like jazz, and he says he gets the same rush of energy and the same satisfaction from creating visual art as he does from creating musical art.
Artistically, he is known for his “Spirit Totem” sculptures. They have been described as “frozen smoke” and indeed, each has individually crafted twists and curves, and a sense of fluidity and movement, despite being still bronze statues. Alpert creates the molds by hand, first in small scale with wax, then in a larger clay mold, before they reach their final, large scale, forged in bronze.
In regard to his process, Alpert has said, “When I paint or sculpt I don’t have anything in mind. I don’t have a goal other than form. I’m looking for that form that touches me and when I find it… I stop.”
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For Herb Alpert MEDIA inquiries, please contact:
Caroline Graham / C4 Global Communications
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For Herb Alpert ART inquiries, please contact:
Chip Tom, Senior Curator / Heather James Fine Art