Art show, 21 paintings by Debbie.lee Miszaniec on view in Sherwood Park AB at Gallery@501 until May 4 2023
Tag: foodinart
New Painting: Thought & Feeling
Our pear is back in Thought & Feeling, torn between Sisyphus and Dionysus again. Early on with this painting I wanted to shift the deep red tone I had started with to a lighter warm pink, creating a feeling of nostalgia in the painting. I saw it as sort of a companion to the longing in the earlier painting I posted about, I Only See You. that painting was about unfulfilled longing, whereas Thought & Feeling is about the power of fond recollections over the intent to follow a reasoned course of action or desire for changes.
New Painting: Idealized Figures
Meet Idealized Figures, one of the newest paintings in my series exploring the relationship between a little pink pear and a cake plate of jelly doughnuts. I was working on correcting and straightening some of the lines in the painting, when it occurred to me that this is what we do in life too; with our diet practices we attempt to correct nature and idealize our own forms. With this insight I decided to emphasize my correction lines in the painting.
New Project Announcement! Earthly Delights – 10 Still Life Paintings in Places
I’m on location here taking reference photos at Reader Rock Gardens in Calgary for my new project, Earthly Delights – 10 Paintings of Food in Places, funded by an individual artist project grant from Calgary Arts Development.
As some of you know from reading earlier posts about the development of my Cravings series, I (intentionally) lost more than a third of my body mass in the last decade. Despite the many health benefits, there are other physical and psychological results of this journey which continue to make maintaining a healthy weight a challenge.
Earthly Delights is about exploring that journey through the genre of still life painting. This project juxtaposes the still life within places to speak to the dilemmas presented by our cultural fascination with food, health and body image.
If you have a story to share about your own experience with health and diet culture, I would love to hear from you
Stay tuned to see the development of the project here, on my Facebook and Instagram channels, or subscribe to my Newsletter!
At the completion of this project I will be proposing exhibition opportunities for Earthly Delights. If you represent or know an organization which would be interested in exhibiting the work publicly make sure to get in touch with me.