Gallery Name: Eat Your Art Out Gallery
Located: Las Vegas, Nevada
Ran by: Willy Wonka
We show edible works. All the artworks are made from a type or multiple food products ranging from many different styles. Bo appétit!
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Exhibition Introduction
Melts In Your Mouth Made With Your Hands
Artists: -Yeonju Sung
-Adam Pesapane
-Jim Victor
-Christel Assane
-Jason Mecier
-Jeff Shepard
-Norma Lyon
-Miyuki Sagamori
-Maurice Bennett (Toast Man)
-Michelle Wibowo
Our show is about artwork that is edible, varying from abstract to realism and from original to extremely creative ideas. The connections are that all the artists have used the same medium's and how we found this out is because every item we posted is or was edible at one point or another with food. We looked for lots of artist that used edible products to create there artwork. Our process was going onto the internet to find artists that express there works the best by using different types of food and there styles and skills.
Yeonju Sung
-Bread Dress, mashed bread on a mesh cover 2009-2010
-Tomato Dress, hundreds of tomatoes carved and mashed together on mesh and pins 2009-2010
Yeoju Sung
Born and raised in Seoul in 1986 and still lives there, working today. She chose the food medium to work with because it was strange and desirable, but chose to work it in as clothing because to her anything can be worn, even food. Her work cannot exist for longer than a week, so the only biographical info on her piece of art are photographs, so the moment of her art is temporary. She feels her art is empty and useless since it is food just borrowing the look and shape of clothing, not to help in anyway. She takes huge amounts of time well kept together to make her clothing, but once it is done, a photo is taken and it is thrown away. The tomato dress is that of a prom dress and the same with the bread dress. She used hundreds of tomatoes and pins to hold them in place. The bread dress is bread rolled up, squished. And mashed together to form that of a dress with ruffles.she believes the photograph is what helps her experience another reality, another world, then the actual reality.
Yeonju relates to our food art because she created clothing out of food, and the food chosen is quite edible. she uses a variety of foods like tomatoes, bread, cabbage, banana's, lettuce, gum, meat, and she was even the one to create the lady gaga meat dress when she was on television. Yeonju's unique style and thought process are rather unusual, but she enjoys her work and strives to succeed in creating beautiful artwork and clothing using nothing but food!
Adam Pesapane "PES"
Adam grew up to go to The university of Virginia, receiving a B.A. in English literature, but moved to film as a story telling medium. Adam wanted to make stories come to life through stop motion animated films, which he accomplished in a vast array of ways. He uses everyday objects and food to make stop motion animated work. In game over he recreated classic arcade games death sequences into something more familiar with cupcakes, pizza, eggs, etc. the film was originally inspired by PAC-man who said the original source of of inspiration was a pizza with a slice missing. Adam is a very popular artist who has been interviewed by many magazines and journals and was even was given a little time slot on showtime television. He enjoys using food as a part of his work because it can translate into different objects like how PAC-man is a pizza, candy corn is fire, and muffins are floating rocks in space.
Adam's video's relate to our choice of edible art because his video art is actually edible, at least the contents used to make them come to life. He uses products like pizza, muffins, cupcakes, candy, and pretzels in his Game over Video, but different variates of food in other video's or "stories" as he likes to call them.
Jim Victor
-David, Human sized, (Butter/mesh/fixed metal bar) 2010 for the Costa Mesa Orange County Fair
- Butter Sculpture(lamb/poodle/child) 2010 for the Delaware County Fair (butter/mesh/fixed metal bars)
Jim Victor
Jim victor is an artist who grew up loving to sculpt out of wood, stone, and out of edible products. He attended the Pennsylvania academy of fine arts and got a degree from there, majoring in sculpture, and also attended the York academy of art in York, PA. but did not get a degree from there. Jim has earned many awards for his work and has been featured by other artists and in magazines across the world. His work is very popular and is often commissioned by butter companies to create life size images relating to the countryside recreated into giant sculptures made of butter. He is also commissioned to make busts out of chocolates by some celebrities and popular people. Jim's primary products of use are butter, chocolate, vegetables and cheese, which he has received many commission to do so. Jim's sculptures have been featured in Riply's Believe it or Not, The New York Daily News, and The Daily Record.
Jim's primary choice of product is butter and chocolate so that fits our chosen theme for they are both edible products. He likes to sculpt with mesh as a start, and a metal bar to fix pieces in place, and then loads of butter compacted together and smoothed out by hands, a knife, and various tools of the trade.
Christel Assante
- Dragon, (10,5) Sculpture, Egg
- Mer, (10,5) Scultpure, Egg/acrylic paint
Christel Assante
Born and raised in France, she grew up with no artistic education, more of just regular school, and did not go to college. She liked to draw a lot and is not sure what got her into egg art, but possibly the idea of symbols being transformed to a 3d environment. She has worked on egg shell carvings for 8 years total, each idea becoming more and more creative and better presented. She uses emu, ostrich, nandu, goose, pheasant, duck, and quail eggs for her art, but prefers the nandu because it is thick and gives more possibilities, but very difficult to find. People donate eggs to her, usually friends and family who own animals who lay. Her tools of choice are knifes, vinegar and a mini drill with a diamond coated drill. She can take well up to 50hours working on one egg, its a very time consuming process for she has to watch out about cracking the egg, shattering the egg, or just messing up period because if you mess up you can't fix it. Christel is currently the most popular Egg Carver in all of France because of her unique style and delicate hands.
Christel Assante relates to our art because eggs are edible objects, the contents inside we often use to create many delicious meals and even art! Her above egg ,Mer, took a very long time mostly because of the paining involved, but also the carving. The dragon however is her most favorite work because of the level of detail and the patience involved in producing it.
Jason Mecier
Taylor Swift (30x30) 5000 Good and Plenty's candies
Jason Mecier
Jason was born in los Angeles and did not go to college for his art career, but was rather inspired and taught by his grandmother Anita Tollerfson. He would do little projects with his grandmother when givin objects not often used to create art, like noodles and beans. His grandmother would use the back of cigarette boxes as a canvas, rather than an actual canvas, so this taught Jason that he could make art out of anything he desired. Jasons art is usually about celebrities because when he was younger, he was obsessed with the popular culture seen on tv. Jason uses hot glue and solvents to attach and preserve his art. His art also is themed to match the celebrity, like Rosie is made out of junk food, and another piece of Sigmund Freud made out of pills. His Rosie portrait above is one of his most popular, not only is it preserving her image in a candy theme, but you could say it is making fun of her, being made out of junk food. He took a long time to create this image of Rosie, and a lot of junk food that was bought during thrift shops and sometimes mailed to him by other people. Even celebrities would send his there junk in bags so he could recreate it into a self portrait.
Jason fits our theme by making portraits out of edible ingredients, like candy, chips, nuts, anything you like to snack on when your hungry! His art is themed across the world and he is very popular in the eyes of celebrities because of his unique style and portraits of them.
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