Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Visual Arts Preview: Ben Roosevelt's The Blue Flame at Get This!
Posted by Debbie Michaud @DebsMichaud on Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:58 PM
A native of East Tennessee, artist Ben Roosevelt attended high school in Belgium and earned his MFA at Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Ireland. Roosevelt is known for his use of bold, graphic visuals in studies of urban landscapes and was awarded the Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award in 2008. For his second solo show at Get This! Gallery, opening Sat., March 17, Roosevelt becomes the proprietor of The Blue Flame, a dive that, according to the press release, "exists in myth, somewhere between the stories of legendary performances at the Rock and Roll Farm of Wayne, Michigan and Twin Peaks' Bang Bang Bar. Using drawing and sculpture to draw us in to the world of the Flame, Roosevelt asks if this is the place youthful dreams go to die, or where new dreams are born?"
An essay by curator/critic Chris Fite-Wassilak sets the tone for the immersive installation:
For the past hour, all that’s been put on the juke is Iggy, over and over he keeps
screamingI got nothing
I got nothing to say.The next guy at the bar is going on about Iggy’s ‘Get a Life!’ ad campaign with the insurers Swiftcover.com. Apparently a few years ago, some British paper asked him about it. “This is so embarrassing. I was afraid you’d ask me that. This is so fucking embarrassing.” That didn’t stop him signing up for another round going on all the busses in London at the moment, this time featuring him arguing with a miniature puppet version of himself.
- Ben Roosevelt/Courtesy Get This! Gallery
- "Iggy"
- Ben Roosevelt/Courtesy Get This! Gallery
- "Building 1"
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