Basic Foodstuffs
These pieces explore foods and related objects essential to human routine and ritual. They are done in paint and embroidery thread on various substrates.
Root Veggies, 2024
19.5” x 26", Oil on panel. $900.
This piece depicts carrots and their green stems and radishes, done in muted, mostly warm tones. The bare brown panel color is left in the background. Between painting sessions it was scraped down to flatten the texture and build up many layers.
Sustain, 2023
20” x 20”, Oil on canvas. sold.
This piece is rendered by mostly palette knife with thick, textured paint. It depicts an onion and slices of lemon and lime with a grey background.
STILL LIFE WITH CHOCOLATE, 2023
24” x 24”, Oil on panel. $500.
This piece is rendered by mostly palette knife with thick, textured paint. It depicts slices of lemon, garlic, grapes, and squares of chocolate with a grey background.
Basic Foodstuffs: Lemon and Lime, 2023
18” x 25”, $400.
A detailed, delicate painting of a whole lime and lemon, plus a slice of lemon in the foreground. It is painted on slightly-wrinkled, gessoed newsprint embroidered with the words "basic foodstuffs" and set inside a black wood panel frame.
Basic Foodstuffs: Onion, 2023
19” x 18” x .5”, $300.
A detailed painting of an onion done over the embroidered words "basic foodstuffs". The fabric has been stretched over an embroidery hoop and gessoed. The edges of the fabric are unfinished.
Basic Foodstuffs: Apple, 2024
6” x 6” x 2.5", $150.
A detailed painting of an apple done over the embroidered words "basic foodstuffs". The canvas has been formed into a pillow and stuffed, with the stitched edges visible.
