Education guide to "You ART What You EAT"

1. You ART What You EAT Fall 2009

3. Or maybe you saw CRIBS… An installation by Matt Bua. He challenges what can be used as art material – think: RECYCLED – and how people can display their collections – remember the guitars on the wall?

7. Another artist’s work you’ll see is LIZ HICKOK She makes cityscapes. But NOT like this painting by Eugene Boudin that you see at the Clark… Rue Saint-Romain, Rouen, Eugéne Boudin If you were going to make an interpretation of the Clark’s Rue Saint-Romain painting using food, what would you choose? Can you guess what food Liz uses for her work?

8. LIZ HICKOK uses JELL-O! This is her version of San Francisco

9. Here’s what San Francisco usually looks like. How would you describe it? Strong, sturdy…… But sometimes things happen to cities that destroy them, like the earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1989. Now how would you describe the city? Liz says the JELL-O represents how fragile cities can be. Let’s look at what she means…

11. How many different foods can you find? Other objects? The minarets are made of garlic! And a flute!

13. What would Saxton find APPEALING in a banana?

14. SAXTON saw it as a dog, an octopus, and a duck!

15. LUISA CALDWELL use the waste from food for her art. One is a painting made with labels from fruits and vegetables.The other is a curtain made from candy wrappers. Like ADAM CHAPMAN, LUISA CALDWELL looks for patterns. She uses fruit stickers to create the patterns in flowers. Do YOU know what it means to be HEALTHY?

18. Three Museum Connection How does our brain decide what we find appealing? Find out when you visit WCMA for Landscapes of the Mind: Contemporary Artists Contemplate the Brain.

19. Three Museum Connection When you visit the Clark, take a trip back in time to see how artists incorporated food in their artwork, and try to envision reinterpreting cityscapes using food.

20. Three Museum Connection What other materials do artists use? What senses can their materials appeal to? Find out when you view the Material World and the work of Anslem Kiefer at MASS MoCA