Sienna DeGovia: Sculptural Food Stylist Extraordinaire
Sculpture alumna Sienna DeGovia on working as a food stylist in Los Angeles.
Sienna DeGovia (Sculpture 1999) is a sculptor and food stylist based in Los Angeles, with 15 years of commercial experience styling food for film, TV, and print. Unlike many of her peers, she comes to the field from a three-dimensional art stance rather than a purely culinary one. Her specialty is highly decorated baked goods and anything sweet, though she enjoys styling all of the food groups and beverages, too. Her list of clients includes Mad Men, The Muppets, Coca-Cola, Target, Disney, and Bon Appetit.
It was at CCA that DeGovia started creating artworks using food as a medium, specifically as a means to elicit emotional responses. She articulated for herself the connection between beauty and food that has characterized all of her work since.
In addition to her client-based work, DeGovia creates personal artwork with food as medium or subject. Her recent works include Home Sweet Homeless (2012), an installation at the Craft in America Study Center in Los Angeles that included a grocery cart, cardboard boxes, newspaper, bottles, wrappers, a dog, rats, pigeons, graffiti and more . . . all made out of gingerbread and other sweets.
Angel City Eats (2011), an exhibition at Klowden Mann Gallery in Culver City, was a collaboration with her father, Jackson DeGovia, who is a production designer on major motion pictures. It juxtaposed vintage cinematic Los Angeles with today’s celebrity-obsessed culture.
Read (and see!) more at siennacake.com and siennadegovia.com. DeGovia is also co-teaching workshops on styling and photography with her colleague of 15 years, the photographer Renee Anjanette.