“The Art of Food”
at
Elder Art Gallery Gallery
How many times
have you caught yourself looking at a beautifully prepared meal, a grouping of
fresh fruits and vegetables, steam rising from a
pot on the stove and thought, “that’s a work of art!”
Elder
Art Gallery presents The Art of Food to celebrate the beauty
of food in its many stages of development. Fifteen artists
including a Spartanburg group,
Southern Exposure, will present their interpretation of food as art.
Mark
McDiarmid of Asheville, North Carolina, puts a different
spin on how one would typically look at food as art with
his painting “Apples and Oranges
Compared.” The metaphoric title is easily carried over into his painting
as he overlays colors and textures to create fruit of an abstract quality.
Sante
Fe artist, Tom Perkinson, Jocelyn Audette of Colorado,
and Spartanburg artist, Claire Miller Hopkins, have constructed
traditional still life paintings
that include fruits and vegetables. Perkinson’s “Early Apples” is
a classic still life bathed in sunlight atop a covered table. Hopkins’ pastel
entitled “Lemon-Pepper” captures a meal in  process with vegetables
in a riot of color. Her painting, “Chef’s Choice”, shows freshly
caught fish on a counter top with other ingredients for the chef’s creation.
Audette’s striking painting of green apples in a silver bowl captures a
beautiful reflection of the fruit in the bowl. Her use of light on the fabric-covered
table presents an intriguing contemporary view of a traditional subject.
David
Zacharias has created the ultimate in functional art with
his pasta jars and pickle jars. The pasta jars are geometric
slab constructions,
each with
a lizard draping across the lid and down the side. The pickle jars are
wheel-thrown and are slightly altered when wet. Each of his pieces are
cone 10 reduction
fired
stoneware.
Food
as art is cleverly conveyed in Amy Goldstein-Rice’s “Fiona’s
Quest.” Just when most viewers are expecting a beautifully rendered painting
of human food, Goldstein-Rice throws in this humorous rendering of a feline’s
basic instinct, to hunt, capture and eat small  critters. In this case the food
is flying birds and floating fish. Each seems to taunt the big yellow cat that
is constructed of earthenware clay that is fired at cone 06.
Trained
in New York, painter Patrick Glover offers a unique painting
of one of America’s favorite food phenomena, fast food. His oil painting captures
our nation’s fascination with grabbing food on the run. He uses the food
industry’s advertising icons to create a sense of wonder as one makes way
through his skillfully executed painting.
“
The Caterers” by Milwaukee painter Peter Carlson, is a small oil painting
that shows the delivery of a large birthday cake to a celebration. His “North
Idaho” oil on canvas painting depicts a scene that most outdoor
cooking enthusiasts will recognize…a Weber kettle barbeque grill with a lush green
landscape as its backdrop.
The Art of Food opens with an artist reception on Friday, March
7th, and runs through April 12th.
Elder
Art Gallery is located in Charlotte’s historic
South End District at 1427 South Boulevard. Gallery hours are
Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m.
until 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Appointments
are encouraged. 704-370-6337 www.elderart.com
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