Art Imitates the Butcher Shop: Meat America

The Urban Grocer reports, “Sculpted, tweaked, and photographed. Nope, we’re not talking about the latest super model; we’re talking about meat. Raw cuts of red meat that Philadelphia-based artist Dominic Episcopo took as his muse for his latest inspired project, Meat America.

Channeling the inner butcher within us all, Meat America includes an impressive collection of photographed meats fashioned to look like everything from Elvis and Ben Franklin, to New Jersey and Texas. Through this work, Episcopo intended to celebrate his own unabashed love for meat and “the American appetite for decadent and iconoclastic deliciousness.” And as far as supplies? Supposedly, the artst and his wife ate everything photographed for the project.

Channeling Your Inner Butcher: Meat America [The Urban Grocer]