Then fast-forward about two years to 2008, and I was asked to be in a really big exhibition in Berlin, Germany, and I wanted to do something that was like beyond what I’ve ever done before. I wanted to like really push myself, so I decided to make a quilt.VENOM: So I draw my inspiration […]
Then fast-forward about two years to 2008, and I was asked to be in a really big exhibition in Berlin, Germany, and I wanted to do something that was like beyond what I’ve ever done before. I wanted to like really push myself, so I decided to make a quilt.VENOM: So I draw my inspiration from what I’m, what I’m interested in. I grew up in the Atlanta punk rock scene of the ‘90s. I grew up skateboarding. I grew up playing soccer. I, I listen to heavy metal music, all these kind of like disparate elements I kind of take together and then I collide into the form of a functional piece of artwork, typically a quilt. So everything you see here in this exhibition is something that I, I’m personally interested in.I’m originally from Georgia, so you might hear a little bit of a Southern drawl. So I was living in San Francisco, as I was saying, going to grad school. I see this exhibition at the Young Museum that’s Quilts of Gee’s Ben. They’re from a rural part of Alabama. It just all clicked for me.
— Ben Venom – 20241226
BRODIE: For now, right? So let’s look at this piece in the back here, because this is a basically floor to ceiling quilt. And there’s some pyramids at the bottom and some, you know, sort of looks like maybe snakes that you’ve created in the middle there.
VENOM: No, I think that’s a great way to look at it and one another way to look at it is like. I look at it as like it’s a collection of memories because I use a lot of primarily I use recycled and or donated fabrics, so everyone, everything has like a history to it.
