Lauren Buscemi reviews the recent exhibition Eva Struble: Produce at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Buscemi writes: "Tapping into the Pattern and Decoration movement—textiles taken from the regional origins of migrant farm workers are incorporated into Struble’s paintings merging aesthetic pleasure with socio-environmental content… With its fiery orange, pinks, and bright green, Lemondrop seems playful, yet a purple strand of barbed wire cuts across the upper left corner of the canvas… Struble’s rich paintings reveal a voracious appetite for color and pattern, though on occasion tipping the scale to visual overload. As a body of work her diverse experimentation renders otherworldly landscapes rooted in deceivingly tangible realities. Struble paints a stage for viewers to construct their own narrative, but one that requires negotiation with the artist’s vision propelling us to look closer at our physical environment and how our daily food makes its way to our table."