Article: Last meal.(Arts & Literature)(Sort of folksy, sort of disturbing: Death penalty haunts painted china)

Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard

CORVALLIS - In shape and in color, the works in "The Last Supper" by Oregon State University art professor Julie Green at first seem folksy and familiar.

Hanging in OSU's Fairbanks Gallery are 151 white china plates, each bearing a different image painted in the cobalt palate of the classic Blue Willow pattern.

Step closer, and those images also seem reassuringly familiar: realistic renditions of all-American meals, from steak and eggs to burgers and fries.

Only when you read the artist's statement does that familiarity breed consternation. Each plate depicts the actual last meal of an inmate ...

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