10 BEAUTIFUL WORKS OF PIE ART
All pie is art, if it’s done artfully. We’ve collected 10 diverse and beautiful works that are all about pie.
1. KITCHEN: LIZA LOU
Artist Liza Lou spent five years affixing millions of glass beads to every surface of a life-size kitchen, including the food! -- including this beautiful pie, sparkling and sitting pretty on a pink beaded cooling rack. Totally cool!
Lou’s "Kitchen" is a piece in the "Kitchen & Backyard" exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
2. LEMON PIE: MARALYN MILLER
California artist, Maralyn Miller, poetically nailed the translucent astringent silk of a beautiful “Lemon Pie,” piled high with pale sugary meringue. Miller’s paintings can be found in five galleries and over 500 collections across the country.
3. CHERRY PIE: DAWN HOUGH SEBAUGH
Artist Dawn Hough Sebaugh focused on Color and Design studies at Parson’s School of Design in New York. Before we even knew the name of her painting, her square dabs, with heavy impasto flourish, conjured a beautiful “Cherry Pie” for us. Like a screen of pie pixels, this piece emits a visual energy that transfixes us.
Sebaugh’s paintings can be found in corporate and private collections around the world.
4. 1950’S RHUBARB PIE: MARIANNE CLANCY
Marianne Clancy painted an ode to pie with her “1950’s Rhubarb Pie.” It’s a beautifully textured encaustic painting, inspired by a 1950s cookbook illustration for a piece of rhubarb pie. The painting and prints are available for sale at Etsy.
5. PIE CHARTS: CANDY JOYCE
Infographics are cool, but they don’t usually show off their stuff so dramatically with pie charts. Artist Candy Joyce took a dotted page from Damien Hirst and made “Pie Charts.” Her play with fractions and colors make dots that captivate you, holding your eye and moving it around her canvas -- you want to see each one alone and in relation to all the others.
6. AMERICAN PIE 2013: CHRIS BRACEY
Artist Chris Bracey’s "American Pie, 2013," is a fabulous contrast of weathered textures and patriotic theme against sweetly colored neon. It is made of reclaimed wood, hand painted with the American flag, with Morano crystal glass.
7. SHOE FLY PIE: STEPHANIE JAFFE WERNER
“Shoe Fly Pie,” a mixed media sculpture by artist, Stephanie Jaffe Werner, is a joy. It’s the kind of pie Duchamp might eat. Jaffe’s work can be found in galleries, museums and private collections around the country.
She is best known for her obelisk, public art sculpture honoring The Florida Highwaymen. A collection of her mosaic paintings can be seen installed throughout The Franklin Hotel on East 87th Street in New York City.
8. TABLE WITH GLASSES AND PORK PIE: JON WILD
Photographer, Jon Wild, creates still life photographs that are reminiscent of the vanitas style of art made by the Dutch master painters of the 16th and 17th century. It’s interesting that the Dutch created paintings that looked like photographs, and Wild creates photographs that look like paintings that look like photographs. We love his "Table with Glasses and Pork Pie" for it’s spin, as well as for its inherent beauty.
9. DELI PIE: DAVID SIMONS
Artist David Simons captures the juiciness of a cherry pie, bursting out of a pillowy lattice in this beautiful “Deli Pie” oil painting.
10. CHERRY PIE: JORDAN PHILLIPS
Jordan Phillips, a recent alumna of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), fused her two loves, painting and cooking, to create this beautiful mess of a cherry pie. Wait. How did that actually happen? Or why?
Read more about Beautiful Pie, it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including 10 Most Beautiful Pie and Pi Books, Science Makes Pie a Piece of Cake, and The Most Beautiful Pies to Eat and Drink.
And check out this super-beautiful pi etching on a gorgeous sapphire crystal in our post: Sapphire Science Rocks
Enter this week’s BN Competition. Our theme this week is Beautiful Pie. Send in your images and ideas. Deadline is 03.16.14.
Photo Credits:
- Beading: by Liza Lou. Pie from art kitchen.
- Painting: by Maralyn Miller. “Lemon Pie.”
- Painting: by Dawn Hough Sebaugh. Cherry Pie.
- Painting: by Marianne Clancy. “1950’s Rhubarb Pie.”
- Image: by Candy Joyce. “Pie Charts.”
- Painting: by Chris Bracey. “American Pie.”
- Piece: by Stephanie Jaffe Werner. “Shoe Fly Pie.”
- Photo: by Jon Wild. Table with Glasses and Pork Pie.
- Painting: by David Simons. “Deli Pie”
- Painting: by Jordan Phillips. “Cherry Pie.”