Three new paintings featured at the Gourmet Garage, SoHo are inspired by the moment of contact. The Artist Edie Nadlehaft further explores her earlier series, Cherry Biters, which captured the bite in mid-chomp, teeth ripping into the fleshy fruit, suspended in a state of pre-demolition.

The cherry, half-chewed is often unidentifiable. Lusciously rendered in vivid hues, the pictures are decadent, and unabashedly hedonistic, even somewhat lewd. But the subject is something more inclusive than lust. It is, rather, the totality of sensual pleasures involved in the experience of biting into a piece of sweet ripe fruit: the visceral satisfaction of crushing something plump and firm in one’s teeth, the burst of flavor, the succulent juice, and finally, the satiation of hunger.

Artist Edie Nadelhaft holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and studied painting and art history at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has been featured in exhibitions around the country and at Scope, Basel Switzerland. Nadelhaft lives and works in NYC.

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Related images
  1. Edie Nadelhaft, Twice Shy, 2014, Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches; 61 x 61 cm
  2. Edie Nadelhaft, Twice Shy No. 3 (Kiwi), 2014, Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches; 61 x 61 cm
  3. Edie Nadelhaft, Twice Shy No. 2 (Blackberries), 2014, Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches; 61 x 61 cm