The Dewberry Gallery of SCAD was full Friday January 6, 2012 of viewers asking the same question, “You can eat this?” at Shaun McCallum’s graduate show. McCallum, a graduate printmaking student, was showcasing a collection of prints and plates concentrating on consumer products and the labels attributed to them.
Images of decaying fruit and small etchings of impressions of food-lined the walls of the gallery space. Framing photo grauvures that were aligned on either side of the middle wall. Those
grauvures captured pictures of certain consumer items. Photos of livestock and produce were accompanied with edible examples such as jerky, cheese and digestible paper. All of which were printed and labeled with words further exploring McCallum’s concept concerning our nations re-appropriation of retail goods. People were helping themselves to chicken jerky labeled in capital green letters “natural” or “organic.” These savory morsels were displayed invitingly on gold plates below their corresponding images where viewers were left to their own curiosity.
grauvures captured pictures of certain consumer items. Photos of livestock and produce were accompanied with edible examples such as jerky, cheese and digestible paper. All of which were printed and labeled with words further exploring McCallum’s concept concerning our nations re-appropriation of retail goods. People were helping themselves to chicken jerky labeled in capital green letters “natural” or “organic.” These savory morsels were displayed invitingly on gold plates below their corresponding images where viewers were left to their own curiosity.
Robert Brown, printmaking chair at SCAD, favored the Teriyaki beef jerky best and had tasted the rest of the samples except the cheese. Brown did not “trust” the time elapsed since refrigeration. After a few people started trying the homemade snacks, everyone else starting following suit. Shelley Dubois, a fourth year printmaking student, thought the food was “super yummy” and all together a fabulous show. Visitors came hungry for art and left full of jerky.
McCallum’s show will remain available for viewing until January 20, 2012 at the Dewberry Gallery to any and all interested and other examples of his work can also be accessed by visiting the artist’s website, http://shaun-mccallum.com/home.html.
Photo: Dylan Fagan
January 8th was the opening reception for M.F.A. printmaking student Shaun McCallum’s thesis show ‘Consuming Decay.’The works on display combine food, photography and various printmaking techniques. The exhibit is on display at the SCAD-Dewberry gallery until January 20th.
Photo: Dylan Fagan
Photo: Dylan Fagan
