Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Meg Duguid and Catie Olson

Food Artist: Meg Duguid and Catie Olson

Title:  Pie Art

Ingredients: papier mache, paint, wood, glue, fabric, adhesives, nails

Size: 24″ diameter

Interpretation:   This larger than life-sized sculptural lemon meringue pie that has a slice taken out of it is Duguid and Olson’s take on pie and high art.  In the place where the slice would have been, a two-person exhibition: white walls, wood floor, and track lighting.  This is their “slice of the gallery” so to speak.  Duguid and Olson will show a miniature retrospective of their pie art work.  Next to the Pie Art space, a sculptural pie slicer with the cut out piece of pie.  The slice allows the viewer to see the internal pie layers since the slice will have “white pie cube” walls.

Creating their work using an iterative structure, Duguid and Olson let their play-on-word conversations lead their projects.  Coming from the exploration of the joke and how it is broken down, our most recent set of word plays has been all about pieing.  Pieing has been a staple of slapstick comedy for years, and we have been in the process of exploring that symbology to find the true and multiple meanings of pie.

Their term “pieness” refers to a more open structure that permits humor, body, and food to exist simultaneously.  Although they bring different talents and experiences to the table, humor binds their minds.  Placing humor within public and performative settings that keeps them on their topsy-turvy toes and continues to enthrall them with revoluntionary ideas of comedy.