The Food Show

Chelsea Art Museum, New York

The Hungry Eye. For better or worse, food is something we all need, crave, occasionally try to do without and fear, sometimes all at once. This exhibition focuses on a preoccupation with food as image and idea in contemporary culture. Dealing with complex issues with humor and irony, as well as integrating the subject of food as commerce and pleasure into the themes of contemporary art and culture, a lot of international artists are commenting on how we view our lives as well as our diets.

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The Hungry Eye

curated by Robert G. Edelman and Gina Fiore

For better or worse, food is something we all need, crave, occasionally try to do without and fear, sometimes all at once. This exhibition focuses on a preoccupation with food as image and idea in contemporary culture. Going beyond the notion of the traditional still life, as redefined by Cezanne, after centuries of a rich history of imagery and iconography that goes back to cave painting, Egyptian and Roman art, contemporary artists have again taken on the complex relationship of human society with that which is ingested and imbibed.

Taking into account the complexity of the globalization of what constitutes a meal, through the continuing controversy about additives, processed food and hormone treated livestock and fertilizers in produce, artists have attempted to interpret and translate these often controversial and life altering events in the treatment and distribution of food in a world society. Dealing with these complex issues with humor and irony, as well as integrating the subject of food as commerce and pleasure into the themes of contemporary art and culture, these artists are commenting on how we view our lives as well as our diets.

The list of artists in the exhibition:

Jan Albers
Donald Baechler
Jay Batlle
Betty Bee
John Bowman
George Condo
Sharon Core
Rene'e Cox
Will Cotton
Peter Dayton
Emily Eveleth
Janet Fish
GisMo (Jessica Gispert and Crystal Molinary)
Anthony Goicolea
Ilona Granet
Nancy Grimes
Marcia Grostein
Philip Guston
Julia Jacquette
Nina Katchadourian
Gary Komarin
Roy Lichtenstein
Claire Lieberman
Ed Lipski
Mariana Lopez
Ted Mineo
Priscilla Monge
Vik Muniz
Mimi Oka and Doug Fitch
Nicholas Papadakis
Richard Pasquarelli
Robert Pettena
Ana Prvacki
Matthew Ronay
Jonathan Seliger
Pierre Sernet
Laurie Simmons
Sandy Skoglund
Mike Solomon
Adam Stennett
Billy Sullivan
Donald Sultan
Scott Teplin
Wayne Thiebaud
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Andre von Morisse
Andy Warhol
Tom Wesselmann
Franz West

Image: Andre Von Morisse: Pink Freud. 2006 Oil on canvas.

Opening November 16, 2006

Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street - New York

open Tuesday through Saturday Noon to 6 pm
Thursday Noon to 8pm

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