Wilder once termed himself a artist trapped inside a person’s body. He is also the father of fauxbrow, a visionary American art and attitude that conflates lowbrow and fauvism with a pronounced, dreamlike wonder.
KC Wilder’s art is often unnerved and unnerving, focused on a loss of centrality itself, as seen in this excerpt from “#45: dog-faced artboy”: chewing himself out, in a tailspin everyday … doting on a well-worn bag of bones inside a doghouse! sitting up on slipshod grates contemplating dog-eared rage, the many treats he’s been denied …
KC Wilder’s writing evokes a pop-culture infused argot. Stylistically, his craft can be approximately described as Richard Brautigan meets ee cummings, with shades of
Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, and John Berryman.
KC Wilder’s talents and ventures in (and out of) the arts cover a wide area – poet, artist, singer, web technician, videographer, free speech activist, photographer, naturalist, and a one-time U.S. AAU-national champion athlete. He has appeared before stadium-sized crowds with a 40-piece classical orchestra as a baritone soloist, and has roamed throughout the U.S. as a vocalist and session player. In the 90s he was acclaimed and known in the zine and mail art worlds for producing a groundbreaking music zine as well as inumerable literary magazines, including noteworthy indy award-winners.
There’s a sometimes twisted, sometimes funny, odd way about Wilder’s poetry. It’s fantastic and takes you places.
Wilder has recordeda cutting edge CD of humorous poetry on bewilderama records. A trained musician as well as poet, Wilder picks guitar on some of these tracks in addition to working humorous poetry in collusion with the impressive Acme Rocket Quartet. Free clips are streaming from www.bewilderama.com and www.frankmedia.com.
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