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Last week my first curated exhibition titled Food & Art was hung at Eva Breuer Art Dealer where I work as a gallery associate. This is my first opportunity to bring my passion for food and art to a wider audience and to put together a collection of paintings and works on paper. Among the still lifes and banquet scenes a little oil on board by Weaver Hawkins of a pile of grapefruit can be found that I wrote about on this blog back in June 2009. If you are in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney please stop by to view Food & Art and to say hello!
The representation of food has always had a presence within the realm of the visual arts. The sharing of food and drink is a communal behavior similar to the way art acts as a forum for dialogue. This collection of paintings from the gallery stock room explores the appearance of food in not only traditional still life paintings and banquet scenes but also in figurative paintings such as David Boyd’s Two Children with apple and orange and Ray Crooke’s Villagers Relaxing.
Left: Ena Joyce, Golden Capsicums on Brocade Cloth, Gouache on paper, 54 x 68 cm
Right: Elisabeth Kruger, Clementines, 2000, conte on craft paper, 65 x 45 cm
The still life paintings range from knobby yellow capsicums by Ena Joyce to Elisabeth Kruger’s perfectly round clementines that appear to be rosy and ripe. Sophie Dunlop’s opulent coloured etchings display fruits scattered among various bowls and pitchers with a background echoing the aesthetic of a Roman fresco. Dunlop layers the connections between food and art by referencing art itself within the genre of a still life. With this in mind, the quiet composition of a jar of paint brushes and a lone squash in Judy Cassab’s Untitled painting can be viewed as the crux of the exhibition and a celebration of creative output, both artistic and culinary.
Food & Art is currently on view at Eva Breuer Art Dealer (83 Moncur St., Woollahra). Click here to view the exhibition podcast.
I love the painting of the yellow peppers!
Cheers,
Rosa
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Congrats dearie on your exhibition. Superb job….what a passion and what an art you have for putting it together!
Well done Megan!
How wonderful! Congrats on your first curated exhibition. I love that gallery :)
Georgous & colourful paintings!!
Colourful & lovely paintings!! Congrats to you!!! Hoeray!!
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i love Food and Drinks, i eat a lot of both nutritious and junk foods.,~”
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