Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Uzilevsky, Marcus |
Title |
Flora Musica |
Type of Object |
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Date |
1982 |
Medium |
15 color serigraph/paper |
Edition |
51/90 |
Dimensions |
H-78 W-58 cm |
Collection |
Missoula County Art Collection managed by Missoula Art Museum |
How acquired |
Gift, Marcus Uzilevsky, 1983 |
Object ID |
1983.01.02 |
Statement about this object |
Uzilevsky is known for his "linear landscapes" that he started making the 1970s. The natural beauty of where he lived in Marin County, CA inspired multicolored horizontal lines suggesting hills, clouds, and shorelines. Flora Musica is an example of his later "linear modes," which combined his love of visual art and music. In fact, Uzilevsky was a successful singer, songwriter and guitarist known as Rusty Evans. As Evans, he was part of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene and a member of the New Christy Minstrels. At the time of his death, he was touring nationally in Ring of Fire, a Johnny Cash tribute band. Uzilevsky said it was Bob Dylan, a fellow struggling folk singer in the '60s, who told him he should switch from folk to country music because his deep voice sounded so much like Cash. But Evans also pioneered psychedelic music; a 1966 album by his short-lived band, The Deep, is a cult classic and considered the earliest record to have "psychedelic" in its title. |
Subjects |
Musical notation Writing |