Spotlight Artist
Ben Roosevelt
South
Artist Statement
My art connects the origins of punk music to the urges of the
Romantics and the trials of Dante as he wrote his medieval epic
poem The Divine Comedy. In 2010, I had a dream about “The
Flame,” a state of being that belongs somewhere between the
legendary performances at the Rock ’n’ Roll Farm of Wayne,
Michigan, and Twin Peaks’s Bang Bang Bar. Using installations,
drawings, paintings, and sculptures to explore the world of The
Flame, I wonder if this is the place youthful dreams go to die, or
where new dreams are born?
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