Banana Raisonné (selected)
Text in accompaniment of Fruit/berry/herb: an irregular plural, FELTspace, 23 April-17 May 2025, and Rubicon ARI, 24 April-11 May 2024.
Still-life/memento mori fruit/berry/herb
- Albert Eckhout, Stilleven met tropisch fruit, circa 1641-54
- Maria Sibylla Merian, Branch of Banana with Bullseye Moth, 1702-3
- Georges Braque, Five Bananas and Two Pears, 1908
- Pierre Bonnard, Basket of Bananas, 1926
- Margaret Preston, Still Life and The Snail, 1926 and 1949
- Harold Edgerton, Bullet through Banana, 1964
- Gérard Titus-Carmel, The Great Cultural Banana Plantation, 1969-70
- Roy Lichtenstein, Bananas and Grapefruit I-III and Still Life with Mirror, each 1972
- Zoe Leonard, Strange Fruit, 1992-7
- Agnes Napurrurla Dixon, Ipanu (Bush banana), 1995
Phallic/phallocentric/feminist/psychoanalytical fruit/berry/herb
- Attributed to John Lewin, Boy with sulphur-crested cockatoo, circa 1815
- Giorgio de Chirico, The Uncertainty of the Poet, 1913
- Joan Miró, Potato 1928
- Frida Kahlo, The Bride Frightened at Seeing Life Opened, 1939
- Andy Warhol, cover for The Velvet Underground & Nico, 1967
- Natalia LL, Consumer art, 1972
- Linda Nochlin, Achetez des Bananes, 1972
- Robert Mapplethorpe, Banana & Keys, 1973
- Alice Neel, Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian, 1978
- Eric Fischl, Bad Boy, 1981
- Mike Kelly, Banana Man, 1983
- Jean-Michel Baquiat, Brown Spots (Portraits of Andy Warhol as a Banana), 1984
- Guerrilla Girls, Guerrilla Girls Review the Whitney,1987
- Sarah Lucas, Sausage Film and Eating a banana, 1990 and 1999
- John Currin, Anna,2004
- Michael Zavros, Summer Fruit 2017
Othering/imperialist/capitalist/neo-liberal/post-colonial fruit/berry/herb
- attributed to Andries Beeckman, A Market Stall in Batavia, circa 1640-66
- Philippe Béhagle, La Récolte des ananas, circa 1697-1705
- Nicholas Chevalier, Race to the Market, Tahiti, 1880
- Paul Gauguin, The Meal and Ia Orana Maria, each 1891
- Henri Rousseau, The Repast of the Lion and Banana Harvest 1907 and 1907-10
- Diego Rivera, The Banana Leaf Loader, 1953
- Margaret Olley, The Banana Cutters, 1963
- Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bananas, 1984-5
- Simryn Gill, Out of my hair, 1995
- Minerva Cuevas, Del Montte—Bananeras, 2003/10
- María José Argenzio, 3° 16' 0" S, 79° 58' 0" W and Chiquita, 2010 and 2013
- Kara Walker,* African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar*, 2014
- Óscar Figueroa Chaves, Demerits, 2016
- Maurizio Cattelan, Comedian, 2019