Photograph by Ani Barberian
Toni Simon is a multimedia artist and writer
living in Brooklyn. As a visual artist she combines her interest in trance
states, technology, science fiction and ancient art history into painting,
drawing, sculpture, photography, video animation and collaborative projects
with poets. As an author Simon's illustrated book of experimental prose poetry
Earth After Earth was published by Lunar Chandelier Press in 2012
and she is currently working on "Telescope Highway", an illustrated
manuscript. Simon is collaborating with poet Joanna Fuhrman on a mixed-media
literary project, and has illustrated books by poets Laynie Browne, Felix
Bernstein and her husband Nick Piombino ("Contradicta: Aphorisms",
Green Integer, 2010). She graduated from the San Francisco Art institute. Her
drawings have been exhibited at the Drawing Center and A.I.R. Gallery in NYC
and have been published in numerous literary publications.
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