Mmm… cupcakes. Who doesn’t like the sweet goodness that is a cupcake? Not only is Pamela Johnson fascinated with cupcakes; she’s also quite interested in waffles, pop tarts, and other foods that have shaped American appetites for the past century.
Chicago based painter Pamela Johnson is currently working on a new series of paintings commenting American culture. Her new work will be showing in the upcoming Artist Project, the portion of Chicago’s annual Artropolis focused on independent artists.
Her current series of work focuses on the overindulgence, insatiable appetite, and mass consumption of American society. Based on traditional paintings’ history of using food as a subject matter, her work updates this notion to mirror our current culture. As such, the paintings are larger than life heaps of junk foods. Overbearing scale and gluttonous quantities are juxtaposed against foods that can be both tempting and comforting, as a result questioning American ideals and way of life.
See more of Johnson’s amazingly life-like, massive junk food paintings at www.pamelamichellejohnson.com.
Mmm… cupcakes. Who doesn’t like the sweet goodness that is a cupcake? Not only is Pamela Johnson fascinated with cupcakes; she’s also quite interested in waffles, pop tarts, and other foods that have shaped American appetites for the past century. 
