With a brief overview of edibles as the medium for art, Carolyn Tillie will delve into the expansive use of how food was not only the inspiration for the artwork of the Surrealists, Cubists, and Modernist art movements, but also how their everyday meals became part of the medium in which they worked and expressed themselves. How F.T. Marinetti spawned the Molecular Cuisine rage we know today to Salvador Dalí’s infamous obsession with lobsters.

Time: Wednesday, February 17, 7 to 8:30 pm. 

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Varying in size from as small as a grape to as large as a dinner plate, the humble oyster has played an outsized role in the building of empires and the discovery of new lands. Consumed by both rich and poor, the oyster has inspired writers, poets, painters, and even lovers (Casanova was said to have started each day with a breakfast of fifty oysters.) Carolyn Tillie shucks open the culinary, artistic, sexual, historical, and scientific history of this humble bivalve.

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In a presentation on food as an art form, Carolyn Tillie will show how the leftovers of an evening communal omelet – some 16,000 years before scenes of a hunt were depicted in caves –man began his innovative use of food to make art. Traveling through time, you will learn about the Medieval development of paints made with eggs and oils to subtleties – grand centerpieces created from marchpane (marzipan), butter or meat – through the 20th century rise of the Instagram influencers with their ornate pies and colorful pastas.

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ACCI Gallery is thrilled to be hosting the closing reception for Berkeley Restaurant Week in collaboration with KDFC, Visit Berkeley, and our wonderful neighbors at Agrodolce Osteria on Friday, January 31st from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Agrodolce will be serving three types of bruschetta and pouring a delicious Sicilian red wine. A lucky KDFC winner will be presented with a $75 gift card to ACCI and a signed copy of ACCI artist Carolyn Tillie’s book, A Feast For the Eyes.

To enter the raffle, visit KDFC's Big Night Out page. 

At the Closing Reception, ACCI will be offering 10% off any purchase at the gallery that evening, and 4 more $20 gift certificates to Agrodolce Osteria will be raffled off to those in attendance. With the restaurant only steps away, guests are invited to dine at Agrodolce to celebrate the last night of Berkeley Restaurant Week, ending this delicious food-filled campaign on a high note!
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Surrealist Salvador Dalí illustrated a cookbook with outrageous and beautiful food presentation ideas, and Cubist Pablo Picasso liked to cook for his friends. Futurist F.T. Marinetti was so obsessed with food that he wrote both a full manifesto and cookbook, melding his philosophies of the future of dining. In this engaging lecture, Carolyn Tillie, author of A Feast for the Eyes: Edible Art from Apple to Zucchini will delve into the importance of food, not only as inspiration for the artwork of the Surrealists, Cubists, and Modernist art movements, but how food became part of the medium in which they worked and expressed themselves.

Throughout history, visual and performance artists of all stripes and degrees of renown have rendered their visions within the whimsical medium of food. But however ubiquitous the practice may be, in Carolyn Tillie’s deeply satisfying and gloriously illustrated A Feast for the Eyes, we embark on a delicious adventure that redefines the world of art.  

Surrealist Salvador Dalí illustrated a cookbook with outrageous and beautiful food presentation ideas, and Cubist Pablo Picasso liked to cook for his friends. Futurist F.T. Marinetti was so obsessed with food that he wrote both a full manifesto and cookbook, melding his philosophies of the future of dining. In this engaging lecture, Carolyn Tillie, author of A Feast for the Eyes: Edible Art from Apple to Zucchini will delve into the importance of food, not only as inspiration for the artwork of the Surrealists, Cubists, and Modernist art movements, but how food became part of the medium in which they worked and expressed themselves.