American artist Pamela Michelle Johnson’s exquisitely detailed paintings explore North American’s complex relationship with food.
Her stunning series of images depict hamburgers, donuts, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and chocolate that offer us a compelling but not always comfortable look at our relationship with food. North Americans are people that are both simultaneously undernourished and overfed, surrounded by food that serves as a source of comfort yet is repulsive.
“Overbearing scale and gluttonous quantities, juxtaposed against foods that are both tempting and comforting, examine the conflict between enjoying the highly processed, artificially flavored bounty of American life and the progression to overindulgence and gluttonous excess,” explains the Gallery180 website. “The work is both gross and enticing.”
Johnson’s large-scale paintings will be on display at the Illinois Institute of Art until January 12, 2012.
Visit: www.pamelamichellejohnson.com
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