Food-themed art, including a floor sculpture of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos by Jazmín Urrea, is at the center of “Land of Milk and Honey,” an exhibition at the Cheech Marin Center.

Riverside —  Gerald Clarke’s sculpture “Continuum Basket” lines up 668 crushed beer and soda cans in a spiral pattern, affixed to the shallow bowl of a TV satellite dish hanging at eye level on a wall. The low spiral creates a traditional Indigenous basketry form — Clarke, born in Hemet, is an enrolled member of the Cahuilla Band of Mission Indians — embedded into a high-tech parabolic antenna designed to transmit or receive information between near and far.

Read the entire article at The LA Times by Christopher Knight

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