VISION #6: Art and Food

In 1975, the art journal VISION was conceived and edited by Bay Area Conceptual artist Tom Marioni and published by Crown Point Press. The first volume, Vision #1: California was followed by four more, the last coming out in 1981. The first three volumes relate to specific places: California, Eastern Europe, and New York. The fourth volume, Vision #4: Word of Mouth (1980) is a boxed set of three white vinyl records of artist talks recorded on the South Pacific island of Ponape. The fifth volume, Vision #5: Artists’ Photographs, is a box of unbound reproductions of photographs by artists who are not photographers. And now, because it’s never too late to eat or to make art, we present Vision #6: Art and Food (2019). For this volume of Vision, combining one scene (art) with another (food) seemed a natural progression. Marioni invited 19 local artists to submit a recipe and an artwork to accompany it. Recipes for crackers, fried fish, prison pizza, pink cake, biscotti, cookies, curry, a sa