Friday, September 6, 2013

Hello world!

My visual artworks are still cranking themselves out at an unprecedented rate!  Most recently a new PoemRoom, MAPS = SPAM, transpired at the Living Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC, USA.

Check out photos here!
http://thepoemroom.com/MAPS-SPAM
 Yes, that's the most potent website for all things PoemRoom, www.thepoemroom.com.  It contains images and summaries of all past PoemRooms.

Thanks for stopping in.  Click around!

PEACE
DREW

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

NEW WEBSITE UP AND RUNNING

Hello PoemRoommates!

I am pleased to announce the new website of The PoemRoom, ThePoemRoom.com!

The site contains updates about the next PoemRoom, MAPS = SPAM, hitting Brooklyn hard in Summer 2013.  Also, the site has photo archives of all past PoemRooms, New York City Street Players productions, and bunch of my other art.  So PLEASE CHECK IT OUTTTTTTTT


LOVE TO ALL
DREW VANDERBURG
drew.vanderburg@gmail.com
917-435-0181


Sunday, January 6, 2013

On March 26th, 2011 a PoemRoom was exhibited in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC.  In a 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.
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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!

Saturday, March 31, 2012

NEW WEBSITE!!!!!!

Hello PoemGoers!

A new website is up and running this season!  It still has to be worked on more but it will only be getting better, so check back frequently!

WWW.THEPOEMROOM.COM

NEXT POEMROOM: MAPS = SPAM Spring 2013!!!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Monday, August 15, 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011

THE POEMROOM: An Overview


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.