Detroit artist and musician Ron Zakrin (aka Goudron) created a new series of works, Beauty & The Beats, in conjunction with this year’s Movement Detroit Electronic Music Festival.

The image above, titled The Modular Realm, features a geisha playing a traditional modular synthesizer.

About this series of works, Zakrin says:

Beauty & The Beats refers to my pursuit of an aesthetic that embraces a sinister beauty, and the music that inspires my work.

Repetition plays a visual role, alluding to rhythms heard, digested, and transcribed onto a two dimensional plane. In this exhibition of new work, some references are overt, some covert, and others are totally subliminal.

There is enough ugly in this world to choke the heart out of everyday existence, I respond by painting what pleases me visually and sonically.

The Modular Realm is available as a signed 22″ x 22″ archival print via 1xRun.