Laura Rokas Exhibition: A Meal in Itself

Dates and Times

• Saturday, Jul 19, 2025  11am - 5pm
• Saturday, Jul 26, 2025  11am - 5pm
• Saturday, Aug 2, 2025  11am - 5pm

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Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce the opening of Laura Rokas: A Meal in Itself

Excavating vintage Betty Crocker and Weight Watchers recipe cards, Rokas painstakingly recreates these bygone images in oil paintings on paper. Taken largely from the 1970's, these strange and oftentimes abject concoctions are representative of a time in which women entered the workforce in large numbers while still carrying the sole expectation of family care and social entertaining. The rise of recipes built upon convenience ingredients and packaged foods aligned with a new sense of modernity and busying lifestyles, while also representing a desire to awe and impress.

By depicting these images in the idiom of painting, Rokas also wades into a larger history of art centered on food, from Dutch still life painters such as Pieter Claesz to dessert aficionado Wayne Thiebaud, who each tackled, in many different ways, the question of what we eat and, more importantly, how we picture what we eat and what it says about us. 

Exhibition on Display: June 26 - August 2, 2025
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm