Andy Warhol – Poinsettia Cocktail
In the early 1980’s, Andy Warhol created a number of Poinsettia paintings and screen prints to give as gifts to his friends. The ubiquitous Christmas flower became associated with the holiday in Mexico in the 16th century. As instructed by an Angel, a young girl who couldn’t afford a gift, gathered up some weeds to place...
Andy Warhol – Upside-Down Banana Cake
The Polaroid camera fit perfectly into Andy Warhol‘s artistic methods of mass production. Warhol began working with Polaroid cameras in the early 1960s and according to him “There is something about the camera that makes the person look just right” (1). Often if Warhol particularly liked a photo he would turn it into an acetate...
Andy Warhol – Tomato Soup Cake
Let me first point out that if you decide to make this cake for anyone, call it by its other name, ‘Mystery Cake.’ I first heard of Tomato Soup Cake when I was flipping through a Michigan cookbook while working at a living history museum. This was after my Freshman year of college when cooking...
Feasting on Art Project Archive
From 2009 to 2015, I undertook a web-based research / writing / cooking project titled Feasting on Art. At the outset, the project focused on still life paintings and other food-related artworks to explore the intersections between food and art. I described the project as “an innovative translation of painting to plate,” and by taking...
Further Reading – 2 November 2013
+ VIEW: Today is the last day to view Shelley Miller‘s sugar mural Velocity on the facade of the 2 Danks building. Velocity was part of Sugar, Sugar at Brenda May Gallery and has been slowly disintegrating since it was installed on 1 October 2013. The mural depicts the history of the Australian sugar trade and...
Damien Hirst – Cineole Cupcakes
Cupcakes and pharmaceuticals are not a likely combination but I stayed true to the spot painting production and created a slightly different shade for each little cake and arranged them in a random order. The cake is the red velvet variety sans the red colouring. It is moist and rich and wonderfully sour paired with...
Review – Taste: Food & Feasting in Art
The representation of food has always had a presence within the realm of the visual arts. The survey show, Taste: Food and Feasting in Art, explores the genre with an assortment of pieces from sculpture to painting to photography all from the Auckland Art Gallery collection. The usual suspects are all present – Warhol with...