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Donald Judd's Birthday Suit... I Mean SOUP!

by Leah Rosenberg

When one thinks about art and tomato soup, Warhol's screen prints of soup cans probably come to mind.

Here is Caitlin pointing them out when we were visting MOMA during our visit to New York last spring.

Warhol's screen prints might also come to mind when one thinks about themes of seriality and repetition in art.  So too might Minimalist artist Donald Judd's  stack pieces that focus on "real materials in real space" and their purity of form.

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1973; stainless steel and oil enamel on Plexiglas, 114 in. x 27 in. x 24 in. (289.56 cm x 68.58 cm x 60.96 cm); Collection SFMOMA, Purchase with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and Friends of the Museum; © Judd Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York; photo: Ben Blackwell

Last year when his painting Untitled 1962 was on view as part of the Permanent Collection exhibition on the 4th floor of SFMOMA, we made a minimalist soup in reference to the minimalist work.   Donald Judd's birthday was last week and I wanted to make this soup for the occasion and float a candle in it, but it has been outrageously warm here and it didn't seem right to post about a hot soup.  That said, word on the field is that Dirty Girl Farms just got their second wave of tomatoes in the ground this weekend that will be ready for harvest in August.  If you can't wait until then, or are eager to make this soup for someone's birthday like we were, you could use the whole peeled tomatoes by Jovial.

The day we photographed this up on the SFMOMA rooftop last year, was a perfect day for soup. 

And while this soup does a lousy job at holding a birthday candle it really does look like Judd's Untitled!  Have a look for yourself!

Epilogue:  It occurred to me that Donald Judd and Andy Warhol have more in common than repetition in art.  They also have tomatoes...or would have had tomatoes in common had we actually gone through with this Bloody Mary Jell-o we were testing in response to this savory palette self portrait. 

This sketch by Caitlin is far more delicious than the Jell-o itself.  Trust us, eating paper would be more delicious than eating this particular Jell-o.  And although this is a place where we will share other failed attempts at creating edible artworks, this is the only time we will ever speak of this particular (and epically disgusting) Jell-o.