Ground Zero Gallery

[1][2] It remained in this location until the following year, when it moved into a larger space on East Tenth Street facing Tompkins Square Park.

[4] Other installations presented were Hell by Mike Osterhout, Zero Gravity by Dragan Ilic[5] and Cold War by Marguerite Van Cook.

The Ground Zero team of Van Cook and Romberger curated many nightclub art shows, at venues such as Danceteria, Palace de Beaute, Kamikaze, The World and Max Fish.

These shows included many other notable artists including: John Drury, Stephen Lack, Manuel De Landa, Joseph Nechvatal, Kiki Smith, Walter Robinson, Julius Klein, Nick Zedd, Thom Corn, Mark and Matt Enger, Conrad Vogel, Phoebe Legere, Cheryl Dyer, Selwyn Garaway.

The comic strip by the name of Ground Zero, written and drawn Romberger and Van Cook, is a semi-autobiographical, meta-narrative look at the authors’ lives on the Lower East Side and beyond.