The PoemRoom

BRAINBOW PHOTOS

2011-09-22T10:27:00.001-07:00

2011-08-15T16:30:00.001-07:00

THE POEMROOM: An Overview

2011-06-20T19:56:00.000-07:00

The PoemRoom was created to be a more visceral and visual way to experience poetry. It hinges on the question "Is writing a visual art?" and also asks "Is talking music?" The PoemRoom seeks increasingly relevant ways to tie words and language into modern art, music, and culture.

Each PoemRoom features dense collages of print art created by myself and other collaborators.

PoemRooms are meant to be interactive, whether you just want to chill out and read...

...or create some art of your own.

Most of the word art is spraypainted from my own hand-cut stencils.

Here is a floating balloon installation by Ellie Evelyn at the Grace Exhibition Space.

PoemRooms enjoy a large digital art presence, to translate poetry into modern technological forms. Here is an interactive computer piece by Andrew Scoville.

More video word art pieces were created by Kate Freer of Room 404 Media.

I've hoped that the PoemRooms can be integrated enough so that the video, light, words, and performance can blend together.

This is the Omsaic from PoemRoom: Breath(e)

Here is a graffiti triptych by Derek Stephan.

Untitleds, exhibited at Ten Forward BK.

Hunter X. Thompson

Question Gun

PoemRoom also explores symbols and punctuation marks.

Surveillance Cameras by Derek Stephan surveyed the event.

In the lower right you see the symbols for the Semaphore letters "N" + "D" for Nuclear Disarmament, which when combined give us the symbol for Peace.

Whitney Lockert performs at PoemRoom: BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG.

I also perform occasionally on my keyboards or my clarinet.

PoemRooms can be put up anywhere, from art galleries to city parks to rock clubs.

See you at the next one.

POEMROOM: BREATH(E) - PHOTOS

2011-03-17T10:35:00.000-07:00

On March 26th, 2011 the newest PoemRoom was exhibited in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC. In a new loft space called 10 Forward BK on Thames St. right near the Boar's Headquarters, many artists and friends came together to explore the space between words and sound, between symbols and letters, between love and war! See for yourself!

Excess!

This is the main wall that you would see when you first walked in.

The Everything Wall

TorALLah and Nuclear Disarmament

Three Pieces by Derek Stephan


The Complete Omsaic

Omsaic Center Close-up

Omsaic X!

This piece was first displayed at the Haiti Hurricane Fundraiser, Castlebraid 2010.

Bathroom Art

The Anti-War-Zone

The Ankhsaic

Foam letters in gate...does this count as a piece?

Sink Art!

Surveillance Cameras by Derek Stephan spied on the event.

Untitleds!

The Question Gun

HURRAH!

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT!

GET READY FOR ANOTHER POEMROOM THIS SUMMER!

HOWL! Festival 2010: Another public graffiti mural!

2010-11-02T10:16:00.000-07:00

Photos from the HOWL! Festival in Tompkins Square Park this past August. HOWL! is a festival to celebrate art and life in the Manhattan and the world, I guess. It's one of my favorite times of year and I was one of a couple hundred artists who paint annually on a huge canvas stretching all round the park. I made a graffiti mural with my good old spraypaints and stencils, and next to me is a painting by Elinor Famutimi.

I also sold some prints on the side.

All of these sold and now I want them all back. At least I have pictures.

#HURRAH!

2010-10-04T16:09:00.000-07:00

Myself, at PoemRoom 2009

HOWL! Festival 2009 My Graffiti Mural @ Tompkins Square Park, NYC

2010-01-04T22:59:00.001-08:00

Some Photos from the PoemRoom, exhibited June 2009

2009-08-12T16:56:00.000-07:00

The greatest of all words.

Me playing keyboard.

People making poetry, wordplay.

Andrew Scoville's invention. Air not equal to phone.

The wall, and its reading friend.

Ellie's balloon installation, floating.

SPACE

THE POEMROOM