"Eat Me!" Exhibition

Postmasters Gallery

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During the month of continuous celebrations let’s rejoice in the most important activities of our lives, the consumption of edibles and copulation with a show of works by SEAN BLUECHEL, MONICA COOK, MICHAEL MEADS, and MARILYN MINTER. The exhibition is set to music: S MARK GUBB's church organ interpretation of the Europe's very fitting tune "The Final Countdown".

It is quite obvious that eating and fornicating are activities residing on top of the list for beings of all sorts, including the Homo sapiens. If we could have our way, we would probably spend our entire days just nibbling, grazing, and devouring food as well as our sexual partners, be it a person, another animal, or our own hand. These corporal activities are complicated by our inherent gluttony and insatiable desires; where the need for eating and reproducing is indisputable, the “perversion [here] is the exercise of a desire which serves no purpose, like the exercise of the body which gives itself up to love with no intention of procreation.

MONICA COOK’s painting, “Succi,” lures us with a literal clusterfuck of insatiable indulgence while MICHAEL MEADS’s photographic portraits provide an insight into young men’s minds and their imaginative sexual explorations, which took place in his studio during the '90s. SEAN BLUECHEL’s work is a portion of absurdity and humor with a dash of perversion and a pinch of ridicule, served on standard white paper, finished with a sharpie. These drawings provoke us to recognize and face, with laughter or discomfort our own dirty minds. If anyone can make peas or lemons look sexy, MARILYN MINTER is the champion; here we present six paintings from the series 100 Food Porn.
Instead of discussing it in much more detail, as we all know these activities too well; I won’t write a PhD about it, I’ll just show you what happened when these artists encountered, thought about, twisted and churned out work with food and sex in mind.
(-Paulina Bebecka)

SPECIAL EVENTS

CROSS(X) SPECIES ADVENTURE CLUB DINNER
Sunday, December 19, 2010

7pm Dinner
4pm Gastronomical Workshop
9am Adventure Club tour of local oyster repopulation projects

Seats are strictly limited - please contact us for full schedule and availability.

Our own environmental artist/genius NATALIE JEREMIJENKO and molecular gastronomist superstar MIHIR DESAI will host another Cross(x) Species Adventure Club Dinner at Postmasters Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition EAT ME!

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Schedule

from December 09, 2010 to January 08, 2011
See description

Opening Reception on 2010-12-09 from 18:00 to 20:00

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