Lewis Achenbach

Biographical Info At any of the many amazing Chicago jazz clubs, you may have seen Lewis seated close to the action, focusing intently on the musicians, glancing down at his sketchpad then looking back up at the stage. His arm moves constantly, reaching for certain colors, applying them to paper, creating forms and shapes and rhythms that reflect what he hears. Most people in the audience may be relaxing, reveling in the music, sipping a drink, whispering to a friend, pondering. But Chicago artist Lewis Achenbach is busily at work, attempting the impossible: to capture a most elusive music — jazz — in visual form. Achenbach has been haunting Chicago’s jazz rooms and festivals for the past three or four years, he estimates, chronicling in thoroughly personal terms the city’s ever-expanding jazz landscape. He moved here from San Francisco in 2011, was struck by what he encountered and decided that he had to respond.

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