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John Isaac Lyons


"Drawings and Paintings by Isaac Lyons"


November 2025



Isaac Lyons grew up in an artistic family in the woods west of Madison Wisconsin. While surrounded by nature in his youth, Lyons was drawn to the urban aesthetic of trains, street art and Hip Hop culture. As a teenager he spent most of his free time painting graffiti in abandoned buildings, under bridges and on trains. He has also completed many murals around Wisconsin and the midwest. Isaac’s recent works on canvas have moved away from the Postmodern Figurative/Symbolic, as he is now embracing a Neo Abstract Expressionist aesthetic. These paintings, exude raw brush work, and reveal his knack for color and...
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Flowpoetry (aka Adam Gregory Pergament), a three-time finalist for Best Artist (Other) in the Annual Madison WI Area Music Awards, is a performer who has bridged the gap between poetry and music.

He has performed publicly over 900 times in the USA with Rock and Roll bands, Jazz musicians, and as a solo poet. He was a finalist for the MNSWA \"Urban Griot\" International/National Performer of the year alongside other poets such as Leonard Cohen and Saul Williams. His current projects include Venice Gas House Trolley (Jam Rock with Spoken Word Poetry) and Rock and Fire Flowpoetry (spoken word with vocal effects and loops). From 2006-2008, he led and taught Chime Collective Big Band weekly improvised free flow musical and poetic workshops at The Madison WI Center For Creative And Cultural Arts. He was also the first ever \"Poet-In-Residence\" at the King Club (voted Madison, WI\'s #1 nightclub in 2007).

In previous incarnations, Adam has played catcher for the University of Minnesota baseball team, spent five years backpacking throughout Asia and India, earned a Master of Arts Degree in Languages and Cultures of Asia and studied for seven years in the University of Wisconsin-Madison-s Buddhist Studies Ph.D program. He has performed with such notables as Hanah Jon Taylor (Chicago-s Artists For The Advancement of Creative Music) and Vincent Davis (Roscoe Mitchell Quartet) and Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown\'s Original Funky Drummer). He has opened shows for The Steve Kimock Band, Cornmeal, Groovatron, Buck 65, Claude Coleman, Jr of Ween, Roster McCabe, and UV Hippo. He has also appeared on festival billings with The Jerry Garcia Band and Indigenous.