Art

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Title: Lady Jazz Trombonist

Size: 16" x 20"

Medium: Acrylics on Canvas

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Painted live at Paint Jazz, a concert presented by the Makanda Project in partnership with sparc! MassArt's art mobile at the Dudley Library in Roxbury. The  audience is encouraged to self-expression in paints while listening to the music. The Paint!Jazz! events and Paint!Salsa! features community artists and MassArt alums painting to encourage community members to participate in this creative, intergenerational activity. Lucilda frequently is a featured artist, and in this instance, chose to focus on one female trombonist in the band during the March 2014 concert in honor of Women's History Month.

Item Special Note

Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper Bio: Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper is an American artist of Indian and African ancestry who was born in the Caribbean island of Jamaica and has lived in the USA since 1971. Now a citizen of the United States, she has represented her country at India's 9th Triennale with paintings from her Veiled Presence Series of sari-clad women from the Indian sub-continent.

Since childhood, she has been "a seeker of wisdom and truth" which has led to her interest in philosophy and study of yoga, bringing a universal perspective to her art. Moving beyond traditional mindsets enforced by race, culture, national origin and religion, she muses on universal themes, employing cross-cultural symbols as icons in expressing her vision.

From an early age, Lucilda knew her life's mission is to be an artist before meeting any artists.

In the lush and tranquil tropical island of Jamaica, she enjoyed an idyllic childhood communing with nature. Long hours of solitary play in her garden chasing butterflies, and floating above the shallow, sandy bay of the Caribbean Sea watching the fishes play between the sparkles of sunlight has bonded her to the natural world. In solitary introspection and communion with the natural environment, she became aware of the underlying pulsation of the manifesting universe.

Resonating in harmony with life, her images are contemporary expressions of her concerns and experiences.

Her work has been described as visionary; invoking a sense of serenity and feelings of tranquility that gives them a presence similar to standing at the top of a mountain enjoying the view.