Media on The Exhibit

Thanks to Ed Adamczyk for his story ART: Kenan Center Gets Hungry in Night & Day, the entertainment section of the Niagara County newspapers, August 28, 2008.

"You don’t go far without thinking about food.

There’s Wegmans, Emeril on television, backyard tomatoes, a good glass of wine, McDonalds. Baby food, Snickers and fried zucchini. The perfectly-set dinner table and the compost heap. By definition, it’s a universal topic.

Enter the artists whose work appears in “Feasting Eyes: Artists Take on Food,” an exhibit beginning today at the Kenan Center in Lockport."

Twenty-three local artists, including many of the foremost names in Western New York’s orbit of painting, photography, video and sculpture, take on the issue of food in a remarkable presentation of 56 works that offers commentary on the way we relate to our gardens, our tables and all the stuff we consider sustenance (including Skittles and licorice). Far beyond still-life bowls of just-so arranged fruit, the Kenan Center has mounted a new look at a compelling subject and its relationship to 21st-century life." Read the complete story.

Also, Colin Dabkowski, arts writer for The Buffalo News, did a great story for the August 29 issue of GUSTO, Artists share their culinary ruminations at Kenan Center.

"From the primitive cave drawings of Lascaux, France, to the cubist still-life paintings of Picasso and Braque, artists have been sapping inspiration from food since time immemorial.

The same goes for artists in Buffalo, who, every 15 years or so, converge to present their ever-evolving representations of food as artistic fuel. " Read the complete story.