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![“I Wouldn’t Mind Turning Into A Vermillion Goldfish”- Matisse Imagination’s Feast, Dining with Matisse Size: 30x78 Medium: Acrylic and Polycolor on Wooden Door with Carving Date: 04/15/ 2020](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2020-05/Table%20dining%20with%20matisse%202.jpg?itok=rsV8j5KS)
Kate Pincus-whitney
A Slice of Life: Theater of the Dinner Table
Studio Installation Shot
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![Studio shot, four paintings from the series: Slice of Life, Theater of the Dinner Table](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2020-05/IMG_8011_0.jpeg?itok=mRPQdxtK)
Abstract:
Through reimagining the radical emotional, psychological, political, poetic, and story telling power of food, I use the theater of life to set the stage of the table. Conjuring discussion with Chronos and Kairos, the meal is placed within the liminal; where all bodies are simultaneously present and absent. The painting is as much about life as they are about death. Investigating contemporary life and myth making, I explore the mapping of culture through the objects we consume. I view the tablescape as a place of narrative portraiture. Sometimes the table acts as a shrine, other times a commons or a stage. Intrinsic to this body of work are Jane Bennet’s Vibrant Matter: Political Ecology of Things , Manny Farber and Helen Molesworth Termite Art, and lastly Joseph Campbell’s works within cross cultural anthropology and mythology. Maximalist, feminist, and unapologetically colorful and boisterous A Slice of Life: Theater of the Dinner Table for it all.