Press | January 7, 2017

The Shape of Things to Come featured on WideWalls

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME – WINTER EXHIBITION AT JONATHAN LEVINE GALLERY Big Little by Jaime Brett Treadwell Founded in 1995, Jonathan LeVine Gallery is committed to new and cutting edge art. The gallery will present its annual winter exhibition featuring work by emerging artists who will exhibit for the first time in the... read more
Press | January 6, 2017

Ben Venom on The Creators Project

F**k You, Grandma! There’s a New Quilter in Town J.H. Fearless Ben Venom with Don’t Tread On Me! 2015. All pieces are handmade with recycled fabric. Images courtesy of the artist If ever you’ve sewn a patch on a jacket, you’ve done appliqué work. Quilting is a populist art form, requiring no more than fabric, thread,... read more
Press | December 15, 2016

CBS SUNDAY MORNING with BEN VENOM

A collision of quilting and rock music Faith Salie introduces us to the work of a music-loving artist on what you might call the FRINGE: “I like this machine,” said quilter Ben Venom, “because once it gets going, I liken it to shooting a machine gun. When it’s at full throttle, like R-R-R-R-R!” Sit down... read more
Press | September 16, 2016

Ben Venom featured in Playboy

Black metal, satanic imagery and biker-gang iconography are all subjects that San Francisco–based artist Ben Venom (a.k.a. Ben Baumgartner) lovingly transforms into quilts. Yes, quilts. How exactly did a metalhead with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute gravitate toward the methods of your great-grandma’s sewing circle? As a graduate student in 2006, Venom... read more