The Cooking at Home Show

The “Cooking at Home” show was inspired in part by Martha Rosler's "Semiotics of the Kitchen", in part by Julia Child and in part by the comedic stylings of Gilda Radnor. As a parody of the over-saturated genre of the cooking show, the episodic series was also meant to eschew traditional values on painting and art-making in general, as well as conquer the notions of what it means to be a feminist in an age of post-feminism. 

An iteration was performed live for a studio audience in the Loew Gallery at Syracuse University in 2009. The set was designed, constructed (down to sewing the curtains) and installed by the artist.

The video series “Cooking at Home” was written, directed, starred in, and produced by the artist in her own home kitchen.

TV Paintings

These little paintings were taken from the “Cooking At Home” videos series. Screenshots of the videos were translated into collage, encaustic, and oil painting miniatures.

The miniatures were inspired by the miniature paintings of Hans Holbein the younger and the portraits of Jacques-Louis David. Small, finely wrought paintings combining the narrative history of the illuminated manuscript and the preciousness of a medal or locket, modified from the traditional oval to reflect the aspect ratio of a TV.