We know Jason Moran the jazz musician. What about Jason Moran the visual artist? Over the years Moran has collaborated with many artists—Joan Jonas, Julie Mehretu, and Stan Douglas among them—and this has led him to look at parallels: “So how does a painter give an object a shadow? So how does a melody have a shadow?” For his first solo exhibition, Moran bridges two worlds with jazz performance, sculpture, and painting. —E.C.

Jason Moran
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Whitney Museum of American Art / New York / Art / Music
Whitney Museum of American Art / New York / Art / Music
Jason Moran, STAGED: Three Deuces, 2015 © Jason Moran; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photograph by Farzad Owrang
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