"Chocolate Box: Morgue," Stephen Shanabrook

Stephen J Shanabrook is a New York and Moscow-based artist who uses food both as medium and metaphor. Using commonplace materials and forms generally seen as benign indulgences-- sweets, chocolate, and cotton candy-- he brings about disturbing new meanings, exploring the intersections of desire, violence, permanence, and death....In the 1990s, Shanabrook, who spent his youth working at a chocolate factory, went to morgues in Russia and the US and made molds from the fatal wounds of anonymous people, cast dark chocolate pieces, placing them into luxury chocolate boxes.

View more of Shanabrooks work in Eat Me Daily's profile.

Shanabrook's work is currently on display in Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in New York as part of a group show entitled "Bad News."

What: Stephen J Shanabrook's piece entitled "Waterboarding"
Part of a group show entitled, "Bad News"
Where: Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
511 West 25th St., New York City
When: June 18 - August 8, 2009