Drawing via Art Moco. Find out more at Pamela Johnson's site.
from New City Chicago:
Pamela Johnson doesn’t have a sweet tooth, though her new paintings, six-foot-tall canvasses of cupcakes, cookies and waffles dripping buttery syrup, definitely suggest a fixation with junk food. Her fascination is more societal than personal, however. These works are Johnson's attempt to not only update the classical notion of the still life, but to also show Americans what they're eating on a scale that fits our proficiency for consumption. Her cupcakes glisten with whipped lard; her monolithic hamburgers weigh hundreds of pounds; her wedding cake is as sugar-coated as the big day itself; her peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches are sticky, moist, built for heart-attacks. The paintings look delicious, hypnotic and grotesque simultaneously. “These are the foods that most Americans grew up eating and have a certain nostalgia related to them,” says Johnson, whose update on the still life is charged with social relevance.
Pamela Johnson shows “Junk Food” at Urbanest, 5228 North Clark, through the month of August.
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