Looks Like Food, But Is It Really EDIBLE? Hot New Sculptor and Artist

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This looks like the real deal doesn't it? Well guess what, it's NOT! It's really a piece of sculpture and if you tried to eat one of the Oreos you MIGHT break a tooth. Called Nabisco Oreo's Cookies by Robin Antar from her collection entitled Things we eat, but can't. It's really a hand carved bag of Oreo Cookies. The bag carved out of marble and hand painted. The Cookies are cast in Resin and hand painted.

Just like a a Skechers' logger boot, a pair of Diesel jeans, a bag of Milano cookies, a bottle of Chateau Haut-Brion, and a bag of M & M's --- they all have one thing in common. They aren't food or real objects but objects d'art!

These sculptures comprise the unique works of Brooklyn, NY based artist Robin Antar, recently named in the Best of American Sculptors 2007, due out in September. This mother of three --despite being blind in one eye-- sculpts visual duplications of the products of our culture in her studio, "freezing" the objects in time.

Her works have appeared in exhibitions at museums, galleries, corporate offices and universities, ranging from the City Museum in St. Louis, to the Nabisco Corporation Gallery, to New York University. Her original pieces sell for upwards of $25,000.

"I record markings and symbols that reflect an object's life and use, including their wear and tear in the form of creases, folds, dents and crevices," said Antar, a graduate of the School of Visual Arts. "Most of the carvings are done in life scale and are intended to defy the viewer to discern the sculpture from the original object."

Check out Antar's website www.rantar.com to see MORE of the incredible work she has done.

Stevie Wilson