#tom obrien

Dip Shifting eyes From my knee to Your back Arched in sweat Never heard of it have you? Never see the sun rise Too scared to tell a joke And all you want is A girl to call your own A beer America And all I want is A floating cloud of smoke Isolated in the air like some North Korean photoshop Or to taste your spit

Program: 40 Years / 40 Nights Location: Ace Hotel New Orleans Date of Stay: 05.29.16 Artist: Tom O’Brien

Whist sleeping over Ace Hotel New Orleans, Tom created a three-in-one photo work titled The Rise, The Fall, The Rest, plus a poem, and we’ve been told documentation of a sculpture’s in the mail. 

Tom O'Brien is a multimedia artist, poet and musician. He received his BFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2012. He currently resides in Faubourg St. Roch in New Orleans with his partner and their two cats. His broad spectrum of work ranges from sculpture and performance to large scale wall paintings. Tom is also the drummer of the all gay hardcore/punk band Rim Job, who are currently recording their first album and planning for a tour in August of 2016. His work has been in exhibitions in Baltimore and Paris, as well as locally in New Orleans where he recently had a solo exhibition at Cutters, a neighborhood bar. You can find him bartending at the legendary leather/cruise bar Phoenix in the Marigny.

An Artists in Residence program sprang up at our New York property in 2014 and this year, we’re taking the concept on tour with our friends at Printed Matter, Inc. 40 Years / 40 Nights celebrates the institution’s 40th year by showcasing a new crop of 40 artists from around the world across 2016.