Piece description from the artist
This painting was made while I was at the Burren College of Art in Ireland. Oddly, it has nothing to do with that location and is all about the feast- overindulgence and consumerism. I wanted to use an image I found of the "pink slime" used to create school cafeteria hamburgers and thought it would be pretty funny if the porcelain figurine of the Bavarian woman holding a bushel of wheat held some slime instead. What might be coolest about the painting is that I used Miracle Grow on the areas painted with copper pigment. The Miracle Grow turned the copper into this amazing turquoise color and flaky texture. Yummy.
Jennifer Levatino is an artist and educator born in 1976 and raised in the Long Island suburb of Huntington, New York. She received her BFA in painting from Boston University in 1998 and a Master in Studio Teaching from BU the following year. Levatino works with oils, drawing and most recently human hair and animal horns. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at various colleges such as The Summer Fellowship at Skidmore College, Feed Your Soul program at Maine College of Art and Artist in Residence at the Burren College of Art in County Claire, IRE. Levatino is an art educator and the Director of the K-12 Visual Art Program for Winchester Public Schools. She currently resides in Cambridge, MA with her husband and fellow educator, Jack Burke.
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