ANAHEIM, Calif. — When people walk into Serj Tankian’s new art exhibition in La Cañada Flintridge, the Grammy award-winning singer of Glendale-based rock band System of a Down doesn’t just want them to enjoy the visual representation of his mostly abstract and mixed media paintings.
He also wants them to put on earbuds and bob their heads along to the artwork, since these pieces were designed to include an audio element as well.
“One of the things that always interested me was the idea of scoring a painting,” the 55-year-old rocker and artist said during a recent phone interview of his new “Shapeshift: A Dynamic Dive Into Diversity” exhibition, which opened at Stephanie’s Art Gallery in La Cañada Flintridge on Sunday and runs through Nov. 1. “At first I thought of doing it for another artist, another painter. And then eventually I thought to myself, ‘You know what, I wonder what music would look like if I painted it?’”
