“Food Paintings”

by Toni Silber-Delerive

Artist Statement:

My above-view paintings of food bring together an appreciation of unconventional views and timeless human habits. While the colors and shapes are traditional, the oversized proportions painted from above display the subject in ways that are both original and recognizable. 

These paintings are conceptually related to my aerial paintings of landscapes and objects. From their above ground perspective, they offer a modern outlook and fresh visual vocabulary, combining elements of abstraction and representation, pattern and grid, surface and illusion, as well as observation, imagination, and memory. While the colors and shapes are traditional, the oversized proportions painted from above display the subject in ways that are both original and recognizable. 

Toni Silber-Delerive studied painting graphic design at the Philadelphia College of Art. A Manhattan-based artist, her work is featured in private and corporate collections and has been in many exhibitions including a solo show of my food paintings at the James Beard House Gallery, NYC. Additional information is available at tonisart.com