Root 222 ARt Crew

Live ARt Blog: First Thursday Free Concert, West Reading PA

2011-06-02T15:57:00.003-04:00

It is stupid nice outside. So if you're anywhere close to Reading, why not come see us, and hear some tunes by our friends in Flux Capacitor and opener Jeremy Sayer. Everytime Flux plays in this town, the folks seem to come out, so get in on the street party:

WHERE: 6th and Penn Ave., WEST READING PA
WHEN: Tonight (JUNE 2) 6-8 pm

We're going to be doing a third pass on our Milch und Honig diptych that we've been working on at these First Thursday concerts, the first session was documented in THIS POST.

In honor of the subject matter, here is the tune "Milk and Honey" by the late, great DENNIS BROWN:

We'll be posting from the show, stay tuned for more to look at and possibly hear.

Music Friday in Lancaster

2011-05-20T19:52:00.001-04:00

Because apparently sleep truly is for the weak: we are at it again tonight, painting in Lancaster Square for the awesome Music For Everyone program. Here is the painting, done in two hours, for auction to raise money for city music programs:

And here is the full on double rainbow seen above the event (it's so intense):

222 is magic.

Real Time Art Blog: Niagara, NYC

2011-05-19T20:20:00.001-04:00

We're here at Niagara. Here comes the Spiders.

No rain, ready to rawk.

Reminder: 222 in NYC tomorrow

2011-05-18T10:32:00.000-04:00

What's up.

A friendly reminder/call to arms/plea to people in the Metro area to reclaim the night from this relentless rain. Were going to be saddling up and hiking north despite a kind of "iffy" weather situation, NYC come out and show us some love.

In case you missed it:

What: Live Painting/Solo (222) Exhibition
Where: Niagara (http://nymag.com/listings/bar/niagara/) A and the corner of 7th, in the East Village
When: Tomorrow...May 19th from 9pm to 12:30 am

Please check out the facebook event page, and "like" our group if you haven't already.

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174533769266661

GET OUT and see some hardworking artists hustle ass and make a painting, look at new recent paintings and drawings, and bring some money cause you don't want to be telling people in 5 years that you had a chance to buy a 222 painting for an embarrassingly low price and passed. You'll look stupid. Big up the Antagonist Art Movement for having us again : www.antagovision.com

We'll be working on another painting in the "All My Relations" series (www.root222.com), check out the link in the Paintings section, there is some new ones on there.

What are we painting this time, you ask?

BAM. Ask this guy.

Real-Time Art Blog: Art of the Park, Rye Park, NY

2011-05-14T05:23:00.001-04:00

Here goes:
Heading up to NY from PA early this morning. This show is meant to be a two day affair, but threats of crap weather (especially Sunday) might make things interesting.

The 222 mobile ready to rawk.

We're here at the Rye Park. Here's our view for the day:

Not too shabby.

Ten of ten am, ready for business:

Noon progress, ready to paint:

Ms. Lisa Turtle

Piano Painting Time Lapse Vid

2011-05-12T10:13:00.000-04:00

Here is the brand-spanking new video of the gang making our piano for this year's Music For Everyone "Keys To the City" program. Our piano was done for the Lancaster County Community Foundation (www.lancfound.org) and will be installed next week (I think at Lancaster's Central Market?). Check it:

Thanks to John Gerdy (MFE) and everyone involved with this very cool program: http://www.musicforeveryone.net/

Art of the Park, West Chester NY--->THIS WEEKEND

2011-05-11T00:03:00.000-04:00

Hello kind people.

222 will be at the Art of the Park event this weekend in Rye Town Park in Rye, NY, on saturday (5/14) and sunday (5/15). We'll be painting all day on saturday, (9am-5pm) followed by a reception/exhibition kinda thing (6pm-???) that will feature an auction of all works created that day as well as a juried competition of other works. I have a feeling there is going to be a lot of straight en plein air kinda stuff, hopefully our brand of crazy will be refreshing to the folks in attendance. If you are interested in being one of those folks, you can find out more about the area < http://rye.patch.com/listings/rye-town-park > and the event < http://www.artofthepark.blogspot.com/ >

Sunday will feature an exhibition by participating artists, as well as an opportunity to come by our booth, say what's up, and BUY some paintings, drawings, and other random artworks including some of our individual stuff.

In other news, we finished another painting in our "All My Relations" series, this time it's Wolves. We started this one at the Silo a few weeks back at the Flux Capicator/Echoes Talk Back show. This will be making the drive up to NY, too, if anyone wants to take a run at it. You can always get in touch in the meantime if you want dibs:

Word.

Real Time Art Blog : Lancaster Art Walk

2011-05-07T10:53:00.001-04:00

We're set up at the portico at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design (corner of Prince and Chestnut) in Lancaster. Stay tuned for images throughout the day while we paint Salmon. Stop by if you're in town!

222 is magic.

222 Piano 2.0

2011-05-06T23:09:00.000-04:00

Here is the what we did today for the Lancaster County Community Foundation piano as part of Lancaster's Music For Everyone program.

we recorded the whole thing. a time-lapse will be up soon.

222 in West Reading right now

2011-05-05T18:58:00.001-04:00

Working on 6th and Penn in Reading this fine evening for First Thursday.

222 is magic.

Reading Earth Day 2011 Real Time Blog

2011-05-01T10:34:00.002-04:00

Alright, we're going to be adding pics and videos all day from Reading, PA's Earth Day 2011 celebration. Check back throughout the day if you can't make it out.

Good morning! Were set up in River Front Park in Reading. It's gorgeous - come out and say what's up. Stayed tuned for more.

Further along....

And further still

YES!

!!!

And now:

I Yahn I Arkestra:

YouTube Video

Flux Capacitor:

YouTube Video

222 back in NYC on May 19th

2011-04-28T15:23:00.001-04:00

Hey everyone. We'll be back at Niagara painting on May 19th. The Antagonists always feature cool artists, not sure who else will be there, but it's bound to be worth checking out. We started the painting on the flyer last time we were there, and got to rap for a while with legendary artist/designer Arturo Vega. Plus we met a cat there called Neon Sandwich, his stuff was rad: http://neonsandwich.com/
I mean....LOOK at this painting/print whatever it is:

***ALSO****

Friend of Root 222, Jeffrey Bowers, is looking for some seed $ to get the second issue of his fabulous Prism Index art book published. The first Prism Index was awesome; with art, writing, a cd and dvd and hand-made with lots of love.
If you want to to help, and potentially get all kinds of cool kickstarter incentives like tees and original art, then check out this site: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1103692945/prism-index-handmade-mixed-media-art-book

The deets on issue 2:

Silkscreened cover on handmade paper. 88 pages. Hand-bound. Printed offset with color. Short stories, non-fiction, art, comics, poetry, and more. Hand-stamped 95 min DVD and a hand-stamped 70 min CD sewn inside. Plus a bonus mini-comic/zine.
Print section includes: Adam Gnade, Aimee Bender, Amy Lockhart, Andrew Leland, Bill Cotter, Brian Evenson, Chris Johanson, Colleen Kinsella, Eric Shaw, Eric Yahnker, Etienne Pierre Duguay, Jed Collins, Jeffrey Bowers, Jessica Wassil, Johanna Jackson, John Malta, Kevin Sampsell, Lola Dupre, Marissa Textor, Matt Furie, Mel Kadel, Michael DeForge, Nathan Danilowicz, Nick Gazin, Patrick DeWitt, Ryan Travis Christian, Stephanie Barber, and Trinie Dalton.
Includes the below PRISM index #2 CD and DVD.
PRISM index #2 CD : 80 minutes (unreleased & rare recordings) - Hand-stamped
Big Blood, Brian Dewan, David Grubbs, David Lightbourne, Doug Paisley, Dragging An Ox Through Water, Ether Island, Guitar Slim (a.k.a. Andrew Parsons, a hobo drifter, who mentored Michael Hurley. Not to be confused with the famed black New Orleans blues guitarist), Julian Lynch, Mountain Man, MV & EE, Ohioan, Phosphorescent, Radio People, Real Estate , Ted Lucas, and Your Heart Breaks w/ Karl Blau.
PRISM index #2 DVD : 95 minutes (award-winning, bizarre, eclectic, and beautiful short films) - Hand-stamped
Abigail Child, Amy Lockhart, Eric Dyer, Kirsten Kearse, Malcom Sutherland, Naomi Uman, Nathan Pancione, Richie Sherman & Aaron Matthews, the Safdie Brothers, Sam Green, Seoungho Cho, Su Friedrich, Tom Barndt, Tomonari Nishikawa, and Tony Gault.

WHT BRD/BLK BRD

2011-04-27T10:22:00.001-04:00

Fresh diptych, started at the Plan B show in Philly:

click me

as it was in the beginning (@Bookspace, in Fishtown).....

blk brd

wht brd

EarrrF Day

2011-04-26T09:42:00.000-04:00

Root 222 will be out painting all day for Reading, PA's Earth Day festivities on Sunday, MAY 1st from 10am-9pm.

Here is the facebook entry:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112238848853542

and the website, with directions and tons of info:

http://earthdayreadingpaarea.weebly.com/

222 will be set up around the Reading River Tribe's shop. More on them:

http://readingrivertribe.blogspot.com/

There's going to be tons of booths, kids activities, workshops, vendors, live music and us making a BIG painting.

A theme for this painting?

NEW BLOG YUH

2011-04-24T11:51:00.000-04:00

We gots a blog now. In case you weren't sick of our facebook spamming, and we KNOW you are, you can check back here for pics and audio (!) and stuff from all of our summer adventures and watch us try to monetize (!) in this BRUTAL business. Art YR face.

New pics in "Live Art" at www.root222.com

new painting, "Snakes" :

this pic sucks.

we started this at Niagara in NYC a while back, the Antagonist Art Movement (who hosts the shows there) did a nice little interview with us, you can see us working on it:

new stuff soon.