Steve Canaday Lansing, Michigan, EUA , b. 1967
Honey mead burger bitch, 2006
Oil on canvas
172.5 x 183 x 3 cm
67 7/8 x 72 x 1 1/8 in
67 7/8 x 72 x 1 1/8 in
© 2006 Steve Canaday / Courtesy Fundación AMMA
Photo: Alejandro Paez
Further images
In Honey Mead Burger Bitch, Canaday constructs a domestic-industrial space saturated with objects: a lamp with hanging spotlights, exposed pipes, a branch bursting in from the background, and an oversized pear that dominates the composition like an everyday object elevated to a monumental scale. Two nude women occupy the foreground in deliberately exhibitionist poses—one reclining on a green armchair, her legs encased in plaid socks and raised toward the viewer; the other squatting, holding a portable radio, her arms raised—while the purple floor is littered with the remnants of an unfinished scene: an overturned spray paint can, scattered coins, a cup, an open notebook.
With a title that satirizes advertising language and consumerism, the work aligns with Canaday's practice of portraying the visual landscape of Los Angeles through a lighthearted figuration and a luminous palette, where the domestic, the pop, and the grotesque coexist without hierarchy.
With a title that satirizes advertising language and consumerism, the work aligns with Canaday's practice of portraying the visual landscape of Los Angeles through a lighthearted figuration and a luminous palette, where the domestic, the pop, and the grotesque coexist without hierarchy.