<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;" src="http://www.remain-silent.com/cm/kewlstuff/MARCH_CMSmith_sausages.jpg" alt="carrie mae smith sausages" width="470" height="313" />carrie mae smith's work can be found at MARCH SF through May</span></p>
Despite being a vegetarian, I am quite the fan of the meat-centric artwork of Carrie Mae Smith. The daughter of a butcher, this artist was a fan of foodism at a young age--from making mud pies to dressing like Julia Child for halloween. Through the end of this month catch her work at <a href="http://www.marchsf.com/">MARCH San Francisco</a>.

Carrie Mae's images have strong brush strokes that juxtapose subdued neutral tones. The cuts of meat are a startling subject matter that draws one in to the intricacies of the image as a way to comprehend the thoughts behind such an often seen, yet rarely displayed object.

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;" src="http://www.remain-silent.com/cm/kewlstuff/MARCH_CMSmith_meats.jpg" alt="carrie mae smith sausages" width="470" height="313" />her subdued tones are gentle versus the stark subject matter</span></p>

It is hardly surprising that this artists work is such an ode to food, having traveled abroad and participated in a farm exchange program, called Willing Workers On Organic Farms. Smith also learned to milk goats and raise chickens in Connemara, Ireland and picked grapes in the Pyrenees and Swiss Alps. Throughout all this her sketch pad was ever present to record and capture the gastronomic pleasures she was exposed to. 

For more details about March SF go <a href="http://www.marchsf.com/">here</a>. And for more work from Carrie Mae, visit her site here. 
