Food & Art at Eva Breuer Art Dealer
Last week at Eva Breuer Art Dealer where I work as a Gallery Associate, I curated an exhibition from artworks in the stockroom titled Food & Art . Among the still lifes and banquet scenes is Weaver Hawkins’s painting of grapefruit, an artwork I wrote about on this blog in June 2009. EXHIBITION BRIEF: The representation of...
Henri Matisse – Apple & Shallot Croquettes
As a Midwest girl I was very excited when Chicago blogger Dana from Real Food Rehab sent me an email regarding a collaboration. She very kindly interviewed me for her site and we quickly began to assemble ideas. The Art Institute of Chicago has always been very near and dear to my heart (it houses...
John Olsen – BBQ Tikka Prawns
Culinaria – The Cuisine of the Sun is an exhibition of paintings by the artist John Olsen that recently opened here in Sydney at the Tim Olsen Gallery. The show is enjoyable for anyone who is interested in food or art as it contains a collection of paintings in Olsen’s signature squiggly style of all...
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...