Amped-Up Art.

Byline: Michael Hogan

Plenty of artists use rock 'n' roll for inspiration, but only Todd DiCiurcio gets onstage and gives bands the bowl-of-fruit treatment while they perform. "I start when they start playing, and I end when they end," says the 35-year-old artist and surfer. "It's a piece of charcoal and me. That's it." After the amps have been unplugged and the fans have gone home, DiCiurcio will take the finished drawing to his Brooklyn studio, photograph it, project the image onto a six-by-eight-foot canvas, and painstakingly trace every squiggle and line with black paint. The resulting works capture the brash, chaotic beauty of live music as performed by groups …