Your Chance to Eat the Recursive Pizza

If you saw artist John Riepenhoff's recursive pizza artwork earlier this week and thought, "Dang, I'd like to see that in person," now's your chance. He's showing it in Milwaukee at the University of Wisconsin Union Art Gallery on Friday and then every Thursday thereafter through October 14.

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7 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, September 22, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Tagged: art, John Riepenhoff, Milwaukee, Physical Pizza Networking Theory, pizza awesomeness

John Riepenhoff's Recursive Pizza

A few weeks ago, Slice'r Tim Harrington emailed me the photo you see at left. "I can't stop looking at it," Tim said. Neither can I. After doing some digging, I found it was the work of Milwaukee-based artist John Riepenhoff. You know I had to get him in the hot seat on this one. Here's a quick Q&A with him about his pizzas within a pizza.

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14 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, September 20, 2010 at 1:25 PM
Tagged: art, John Riepenhoff, Physical Pizza Networking Theory, pizza art

A Belated Thank You for These Mysterious and Cool Pizza Stickers

So I'm cleaning off my desk today, and I find this mysterious envelope I received in early August. Inside a bright-yellow envelope addressed with red ink (from one M. Dettloff in Ypsilanti, Michigan), I found two smaller square envelopes reminiscent of pizza boxes (above). After donning my anti-anthrax biohazard suit, I opened the smaller envelopes and found these stickers:...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Adam Kuban, September 2, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Tagged: art, mailbag, Melissa Dettloff, stickers, Ultimate Pizza Sticker Pack

'Sup, Homeslice: We Talk to Andy Sachs, the Artist Who Painted Dom DeMarco

Two weeks ago, we showed you the new portrait of Dom DeMarco that now hangs in Di Fara. Today, we talk to Andy Sachs, the artist who painted it. —The Mgmt. There's obviously a lot of attention to detail in that painting. How long have you been a regular at Di Fara, and how long did you have to study Dom's ways to capture his likeness so well? I've been a loyal fan ever since I moved back to Brooklyn (from Plainview, Long Island) in 2001. I had a blind date who recognized that I lived only a few blocks...

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6 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, August 27, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Tagged: 'Sup Homeslice, Andy M. Sachs, art, Di Fara, Dom DeMarco, interviews, Q and As

Money Pizza

Money Pizza is an promotional concept for an imaginary pizza chain that sells a $5 pizza. The magnetic fridge-based coin keeper holds $5 in change. As its creator, artist Matt Brown, says, "The concept eliminates the shame people feel when they pay for something all in change. No counting involved with this, both cashier and customer know exactly how much money there is on that pie." Of course you're still left scrounging for the tip. [via EMD]...

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2 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, July 1, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Tagged: art, delivery, marketing

'Pizza Corpse' Book Launch

I took some art history courses in college. Did they prepare me for this? Pizza Corpse is an exquisite framing of the artist's nostalgia, social and cultural associations; interest in the grotesque, hygiene and self-image, corporal perturbations, and any other greasy subject related to these concerns in and out of the box. All of the featured artists are Yale School of Art graduate students or recent graduates, who grinningly pulled the book's topic out of a hat. This strategy not only introduced a re-examination of Fluxus terms for the compilation, but it also served as a method to display contemporary...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Adam Kuban, July 16, 2008 at 8:00 AM
Tagged: art, Books, Chelsea, Manhattan, NYC, pizza weirdness

Slice-cycles: Pizza Cutters as Art

Take a spin: Artist Frankie Flood's pizza cutters take inspiration from chopper motorcycles and fringe culture. Clockwise from top left: Mantis (2003), Psycho Pizza Cadillac (2003), Easy Rider (2001), Pizza for Life (2002), and Phatboy (2003). [Credit: Frankie Flood] Some of you might have caught these pizza cutters yesterday on gadget blog Gizmodo. If you didn't see them there, behold them here. Artist Frankie Flood creates "machined pizza cutters [that] draw inspiration from chopper motorcycles and attempt to reclaim the mythology and economic usefulness of the American worker as patriarch; translating machine or functional object into flesh and blood."...

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1 Comment | Posted by Adam Kuban, April 22, 2005 at 2:25 PM
Tagged: art, equipment and accessories, Frankie Flood, oddities, pizza cutters