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The Band Gives It Lungs (II. The Saxophone), 2025

$720.00
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Oil on canvas, 12 × 24 in © 2025 J.M. Bond. 

A saxophonist leans back as if struck by the force of his own note, fingers and keys fusing together. Smoke-like lines extend from the bell.

Oil on canvas, 12 × 24 in © 2025 J.M. Bond. 

A saxophonist leans back as if struck by the force of his own note, fingers and keys fusing together. Smoke-like lines extend from the bell.

This work was part of an immersive exhibition of new works in October, 2025, titled In the Company of Paintings.

Exhibition Description: 

The room breathes with rhythm only because the band gives it lungs. 

The bass player leans calm, almost bored, but his fingers fuse with the strings until the notes feel carved straight from his hand. The sax tilts back, smoke caught with the notes pouring from its bell. The piano keys burst free under a frenzy of hands, while the trumpet billows a golden swell that bends the air around it. And the singer lets her composed, unhurried voice pour across the mic.

Faces stay cool, but the music doesn’t. It fractures, swirls, collides into analytic planes of sound that make your pulse stumble, then dance.