Tess Cook "Food Fight" Exhibition at Finch Lane Gallery

Tess Cook exhibits her latest body of work in the exhibition Food Fight, an expansion of her previous work, Delicatessen Delicacy. She pairs food and animals to create visual puns, but Food Fight takes her observations one step further as she makes connections to the individual struggle for nourishment from physical, mental and spiritual sources. The metaphor can also be extended to the fight for resources and politics between nations. Cook’s “food hybrids” represent the fragility of emotional or physical states of being. “These paintings are my attempt to portray and discuss both the positive and negative aspects of human nature in a palpable and appetizing manner,” says Cook. Her paintings are the product of her own experience as she struggles to maintain a balanced lifestyle.