Food for Thought
Chaffey College and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art are pleased to present Food for Thought: A Question of Consumption, January 17– March 24, 2012. The artists’ reception will be January 18 from 6-8pm with light refreshments and entertainment featuring dj Trickmilla. The exhibitions and receptions are free and open to the public.
In Food for Thought: A Question of Consumption, artists Edith Abeyta, Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young), Anne Hamersky, Mark Menjivar, and Jessica Rath use food as the impetus to explore food politics and activism in complex ways. In the Project Space, Lauren Michele Kasmer (LMK) presents a participatory installation, Thoughtful Food. Coordinated in concert with the One Book/One College (OBOC) program 2011-2012 selection, Michael Pollan’s Botany of Desire, Food for Thought: A Question of Consumption and related program work to expand the dialogue of Pollan’s book into the realm of contemporary art.
A series of lectures, participatory events, and food-related programs are planned in concert with Food for Thought: A Question of Consumption. Exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.
Please visit us online at www.chaffey.edu/wignall.
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I attended an event back around Spring of this year where the artist Jessica Rath was the speaker. She discussed her career as an artist and some of the inspirations behind her most well known works. One of her first projects was in Chicago where she decorated the facade of a building with shiny red material which led people to think it was a Gentlemen's Club.
She discussed her battle with cancer and how it inspired her recent work in photography. If I remember correctly, she liked to photograph pieces of nature popping out of urban areas because it indicates a persistence to live. One photograph was a patch of grass sprouting from the cracks of a sidewalk. Nature seemed to be a major theme of her other work as well, but I found it interesting while the subjects are of nature the mediums she used are not natural. For instance, she created a piece called "Tree Peel" which is a latex molding of an apricot tree. Also, her installation titled "Drop Garden" is composed of fabric hanging from wire and thread.
Rath's also created a piece that uses a variety of mediums at once, titled "Song to Snore". This piece requires the viewer to walk through a coiled structure, similar to the large structures Richard Serra is famous for, while a "song" of heavy breathing and bird chirping plays.
Her artwork ranges from realistic depictions to abstract and contemporary. Take for example her porcelain sculptures of apples and "Tree Peel", they are both realistic depictions, while "Drop Garden and "Song For Snore" are more abstract. I really loved her work at the Food For Though Exhibit- those porcelain apple structures were actually my favorite piece!
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