By Jessie Kuenzel
Staff Writer

The show currently on display in the Trustman Gallery will be taken down over winter break, and the delicate Oreo cameos and embroidered pieces of toast, bloody and thought-provoking photographs of various animal meats, and other amazing food-inspired works of art will no longer be gracing the walls of our beloved local art gallery.

While the Trustman Gallery always has amazing shows on display for the Simmons, and outside, community to enjoy, the most recent show has definitely been the most unique we have had the pleasure to see in quite a while.

The “Comestibles” show, featuring artists Rebecca Colon, Joseph Douillette, Judith Klausner, and Tara Sellios, highlights the intimate relationships we all have with food. In one way or another, food plays a large role in all our lives and “Comestibles” explores the individual experiences of the artists.

The small imitation cameos carved into the crème of Oreo cookies and stained-glass peacock made from thinly sliced gummy candies of Judith Klausner make you feel simultaneously hungry and like a failure for doing nothing more productive with your sweets than shoving them in your face. Between her cross-stitched cereal, and mustard and jam paintings, Klausner’s creative and unconventional use of food makes her the definite highlight of the show.

The gruesome, slimy, and oddly whimsical photographs of Tara Sellios provide a sharp contrast to the incredible and fantastical work of Klausner.

Sellios’ photographs—while obviously bloody even from afar—are abstract enough to entice viewers to come close enough to appreciate the full glory of her photographs’ gory intricacy.

Although her work might inspire a stint into vegetarianism, Sellios’ use of animal body parts is—blood and guts aside—strangely beautiful and poetic.

“Comestibles” will be coming down from gallery walls on Dec. 13, so if you haven’t yet had the pleasure of enjoying the food and food-for-thought works of art, definitely take a trip up to the Trustman Gallery while you still can.

Coming up after the break, the gallery will be showing a selection of student work collected from the Fall 2013 art classes. The show will be opening on Jan. 14. For more information about upcoming, or current, Trustman Gallery shows, visit simmons.edu/trustman.