Amelia Biewald: Treats / John Gaunt: Rocking Chair

In her upcoming show at Rosalux Gallery, Treats, Biewald paints her recent research into Renaissance eating and banquet culture. She creates scrumptious and alluring food presentations appropriate for the grandest dinner party. No grocery stores, no pre-packaged meats. During the Renaissance, if you could catch it, you ate it, and usually ALL of it. Let’s just say we are very picky and boring in our eating habits as compared to those of the 16th century…and the display of our comestibles is far less grand.

John Gaunt has an empiricist approach to making. In recent years Gaunt developed a kind of “graphic scaffolding” inspired by weather and the shifting architecture of rivers. This scaffolding or intuitive gesture has become a malleable motif for him across artistic processes – allowing him to generate new combinations of abstract structures, illusionistic spaces and diagrammatic drawing.