Eat With Your Eyes is a national group exhibition. This show is juried by contemporary art scholar and educator Silvia Bottinelli. In Eat With Your Eyes, the work on view presents food in all of its glorious iterations, sensory experiences, and narratives.

From still lifes to photographs to installations, the range of featured art mirrors the dynamic ways food factors into contemporary life today. Leah Netsky’s Stacks looks at the complex issues surrounding food production and consumption in the modern world. In Patina by Adina Andrus, the artist makes a commentary on food culture, waste, and the image of our society in the eyes of future generations by transcribing recipes from De re coquinaria, a cookbook attributed to the Roman author Apicius, onto plastic bags. Theadora Nedvins’ Body Plays and Wastes Time Part 1 brings attention to how food and fiber are often demarcated from fine art and reduced to home craft or hobby due to their association with women’s work. Nedvins’ piece rejects this idea and explores craft’s inherent strength and complexity through the lens of sex and gender.

In Eat With Your Eyes, food is both medium—bread, millet, matzah, chocolate, and more—and subject, providing a lens in which to explore topical themes. The artists in this exhibition use food to consider a range of pressing topics such as identity, class, place, power, cultural heritage, and domesticity. Eat With Your Eyes showcases how food is not only a daily ritual, sustenance, culture, and expression but also a source of inspiration, fostering a dialogue on diversity and interconnectedness.

Featured Artists

Adina Andrus, Briana Babani, Marika Christofides, Jaina Cipriano, Bethany Engstrom, Daniel George, Sair Goetz, Megan Hyde, Abbi Kenny, Marcel Marcel, Kate Martens, Michaela Morse, Theadora Nedvins, Leah Netsky, Lucia Nhamo, Sanika Phawde, Jonathan Ralton, Kiana Ruth Beckmen, Ariana Sanchez, Quincey Spagnoletti, Kristen Jean Wheatley, Duke Windsor, Yixuan Wu, Yikun Ava Xu, Rachel Yurkovich

Press

Eat With Your Eyes Offers Temptations at Gallery 263 by
Dylan Bunyak for the Boston Art Review

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond by
Cate McQuaid for the Boston Globe