- Boobis hails from a family of artists and musicians...His
great grandfather wrote the "Hatikvah"
- national anthem of
Israel...and his father was the first American artist to do a national
tour of the Soviet Union during the height of the cold war,
culminating in a portrait of Lenin for the cover of "Soviet
Life." The
elder Boobis died in 1971.
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- Currently, Boobis is the artist-in-residence at the famed
"BLUENOTE" jazz club in New York City. Prior to that, he spent
several years working with Art D'Lugoff at the historical
"VILLAGE
GATE," doing multi-media rendering of their guest musicians. His
paintings are featured at the "CENTRAL PARK SOUTH" gallery in
downtown Manhattan, and his artwork has been a hit at the Newport Jazz
Festival for the last several
years.
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- Boobis began his career as a TV journalist - working
for the Associated Press, Reuters, ABC-TV and NBC-TV in his 10 year
period of activity. It was when he met his wife, Karen Kosdan, that he
was subsequently convinced to heed the call of his heritage and go
full-time into music and art. Boobis won songwriting awards from ASCAP
and had a break-out single in l981, entitled 'Riverside Drive.' He also
fronted a band known as 'Kinesis' - which released an album in Europe,
and completed a Southern Tour of the United States. It was natural that
at a certain point in his career Boobis would attempt to combine the 2
mediums of art and music, which flow through the blood of his family
veins. The culmination of that concept was 'Musical
Visions' - which has
had numerous solo exhibitions throughout New York and the rest of the
country, including at the "CORNER
Gallery" in the concourse of
Manhattan's World Trade Center. The show has proved very popular with
people from all walks of life, who relate to it on an instinctive and
emotional level. Boobis covers the worlds of classical music, jazz, and
rock - and brings his musical theme to statesmen whom he considered to
be "musical orators" - like Kennedy and King - in the
Resurrection series... His musical visions are also represented in
nature, through "natural rhythm," and the mind itself, through
"inner rhythm."
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- This Winter, a world-wide printing of Boobis' jazz images
is being released by the
Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation (I.G.P.C.),
an international stamp organization. The
first issue will be distributed in the client nation of St. Vincent.
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Boobis was recently commissioned by ALVIN AILEY to do a series of dance paintings. And next year he will be having a one-man show in Newark, New Jersey, sponsored by jazz - radio WBGO.
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Musical Visions is ultimately a statement about the "oneness" of all mediums - and on its highest level the artist hopes its message is passionately spiritual, crossing all lines of race, color, sex, creed, and dimension...!
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