Decaying food art

Fruit decay. Mixed media by Nicky Heard

Study In Decaying Pomegranates by James de Villiers

“Fruits in Decay,” a new exhibit in the Glass Flowers gallery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, depicts the marvel of rotting fruit.

Buy 'Pomegranate and Paper Wasps' by Joe Helms as a Poster, Art Print, Canvas Print, Framed Print, Photographic Print, Metal Print, or Greeting Card

Josh Lilley on Instagram: “🥁🍋🍇🍒💎🥁 For Art Basel Miami Beach 2019, Josh Lilley presents the first monumental version of KATHLEEN RYAN’s @katieryankatieryan celebrated…”

Artist Kathleen Ryan creates a conversation between the beautiful and the grotesque in her oversized sculptures of mold-covered fruit. The New York-based artist uses precious and semi-precious stones like malachite, opal, and smoky quartz to form the simulacrum of common green rot on each fruit. Working at a larger-than-life scale, Ryan creates a foam base, rudimentarily painted to map out the fresh and rotten areas on the surface. She then individually places each gemstone, with varied…