Hello and welcome to my website. My name is Jesse Gelaznik and I’m a mulit-disciplinary artist and the founder of the performance art collective DIRTY CHURCHES and I’d like to tell you a little about myself. I draw compulsively with charcoal and pastels exploring my interests in plein air rendering, reconstructing memories, and sci-fi fantasies, all with a fascination for light and color. If you’d like to see more of my drawings click the menu option or just click here. I am also a composer that is completely devoted to the science and performance of new music, song writing and opera. Ever since I heard my father tuning his guitar as a young child my ears were open to sound and all it’s endless possibilities. I’m still chasing and contemplating the sounds I imagine and the landscapes of our complex sonic world. I have copious spiral bound notebooks full of counterpoint, figuration preludes and theoretical progressions, all hand written in my never-ending study of harmony. Just scroll down for some videos and a general overview of my music. I just wanted to take this time to say hello and introduce myself a little. If you’d like to learn more about my work, commissions, and press, please visit my about page or click here. Thanks for stopping by!

Jesse Gelaznik