Haven String Quartet Makes Painting An Experience
“Think about the relationship between listening and looking.”
So encouraged Jessica Sack, curator of public education at the Yale University Art Gallery and organizer of “Playing Images,” at an event that combined artwork with the music of the Haven String Quartet.
On Wednesday afternoon, Sack and her co-coordinator, violinist Yaira Matyakubova — who, along with Gregory Tompkins on violin, Annalisa Boerner on viola, and Philip Boulanger on cello, make up the string quartet in residence at the local classical music education nonprofit Music Haven — combined visual art, music, and audience participation to create an artistic experience that incorporated multiple senses in an immersive event.
Rather than simply looking at a painting, or listening to a concert, visitors were encouraged to pay attention to the connections between the two mediums. Sack was “excited to think about what new things you hear when you’re looking at something, and what new things you see when you’re listening to something.”