Denise Stewart-Sanabria

Region: South

Website: https://stewart-sanabria.com/

City / State: Knoxville, TN

My paintings are anthropomorphized Epicurean dramas staged across time and cultures. Traumatized baked goods and produce interact with random commercial tchochkes and props in staged interiors or edible landscapes. Backdrops are sourced from 400 years of wallpaper, fabric, painting, and graphic design.

I really want to know how Chattanooga Moon Pies would be received next to macarons at the Court of Versailles. What would a UFO want to beam up from this planet into their spaceship if they were hungry? How can I make ceramic animals eat the gastronomical display in which I’ve placed them?

I play with the staging until the objects themselves tell me exactly what they want to be doing.