The music that Andy Summers makes cannot be categorized within one genre. It is a unique, personal musical expression with influences of jazz, classical, world music, rock ‘n roll and pop. His status as a guitar legend is based on experiments with both instinctive and composed sounds. His experience, improvisation technique, compositions and his ability to step outside […]
Guitarist Andy Summers demonstrates his dual musical and visual artistic practices with a multimedia presentation titled A Certain Strangeness on Saturday, June 22nd at 6:30pm at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Summers weaves an audiovisual spell by combining surreal imagery and innovative guitar techniques. The evening culminates with a conversation between Summers and Jayson Dobney, […]
Andy Summers’ newest book of photography, “A Certain Strangeness” is now available. Summers says the title of the book succinctly sums up the quality in a photograph that opens the eyes wide and that these photographs constitute the mental and visual counterpart of his music, marked by a complex melodic search and harmonies of rather […]
Andy’s exhibit “A Certain Strangeness” opened with tremendous success in Montpellier, France on February 6th. Watch this video to hear Andy discuss the installation and his love of photography. The entire video, which is mostly in French, can be seen here.
The exhibition “A Certain Strangeness” opens on June 6, 2019 at the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, Netherlands and it will offer an overview of Andy Summers’ photographic work from the period 1980-2017. The geographical range of the images varies from the Alto Plano in Bolivia to the alleys of the Golden Gai in Tokyo. In addition to a […]
Join Andy Summers at two spectacular events at MiamiPhotoFest February 28 and March 1, 2019. On February 28th, Andy and long time friend Ralph Gibson will be in conversation at a free event from 7:30-10pm where they will share stories from their illustrious careers. To register for this free event click here. Then, on March […]
On the occasion of his visit to Montpellier, the photographer and guitarist Andy Summers will offer an unprecedented free musical performance, Thursday, February 7th at 8pm at the beautiful 600-seat Salle Pasteur. This exceptional musical performance will complement the Pavillon Populaire exhibition “A Certain Strangeness” which opens February 6, 2019. Enter to win two tickets […]
“Andy Summers. A Certain Strangeness, Photographs 1979-2018” at the Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier from February 6th to April 14th, 2019. After a 2018 season dedicated to history and duty of remembrance, the Pavillon Populaire puts on a new event in 2019 by unveiling the photographic world of Andy Summers, famous guitarist of the mythic rock […]
Andy Summers, former guitarist and composer of the legendary band The Police, has built a unique photographic body of work to parallel his musical oeuvre. According to Summers, these photographs constitute the mental and visual counterpart of his music, marked by a complex melodic search and harmonies of rather melancholic and even convulsive colors. Summers […]
If photography is the practice of painting with light, then music is the practice of painting with sound. Andy Summers is an expert in both disciplines. Summers, the legendary guitarist for The Police, has been taking photos for longer than he’s been famous. His new solo album,Triboluminescence, provides a handy metaphor for his career […]
