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Artists with Developmental Disabilities at San Francisco's Creativity Explored Serve Up a Tantalizing Smorgasbord of Art Inspired by Food
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 14, 2008. 7-9pm
Come and get it! This summer, you can satisfy your craving for art for the kitchen and beyond with a new exhibition and sale of works dedicated to food glorious food entitled "Tasty" at San Francisco's Creativity Explored. It's an "All U Can Buy" buffet of original drawings, paintings and sculptures that feature a mouth-watering array of incredible edibles from dancing radishes to the mid- century modern joys of Jell-O. Camille Holvoet, whose passion for pastries has been a life long inspiration, contributes a series of luminescent oil pastels of cupcakes and cakes. Text-based artist John Patrick McKenzie also sticks to sweets with an ode to pies scrawled over Neopolitan ice cream-striped wallpaper. Kevin Roach contributes a not-so-traditional butchering chart for pork. One of the cuts he cites is the "Picnic Shoulder." The snout is labeled as "ink (canned)".