The 2013 poster art for Astoria Sunday Market features fruit
and vegetablecarvings by award-winning chef and artist Jimmy Zhang. He created the
iconic images of thetrolley, Astoria-Megler Bridge and Columbia River using green radish,
butternut squash,eggplant, zucchini, carrots, and acorn squash.
Chef Zhang is founder of Art Chef, Inc. He graduated from the Culinary Arts
Institute inChina in 1989 as a chef with a personal interest in the ancient fruit and
vegetable carving
art. Through his diligence and a strong desire to master the art, Chef
Zhang excelled in hisartistic creations within a couple years and began teaching edible art
carving classesin 1993.
Chef Zhang has won many championship titles in a number of professional
fruit and vegetable
carving competitions in China at both the Province and National level and
has been recognized
as one of the best fruit and vegetable carving art chefs in
China.
In 1998, Chef Zhang came to the United States making his mark in the US
professional culinary
carving world with his unique talents and his vast experience in the
Chinese art of fruit and
vegetable carving. Chef Zhang has earned many medals for top positions at
the American Culinary
Competition and Professional Chef Competition in this country. Aside from
teaching and
practicing this amazing ancient carving art, Chef Zhang strives daily in
seeking new ways to
improve his techniques to take his artistry to the next level. He lives in
the San Francisco
Bay Area of California where he teaches his carving skills to professionals
and hobbyists.
Astoria Sunday Market approached Chef Zhang earlier this winter about
creating images that best
reflect Astoria for use in its 2013 poster art. He enthusiastically
embraced the challenge and
came up with a scene incorporating the trolley, Astoria-Megler Bridge and
the Columbia River.
His art now graces the cover of the annual Market and Downtown Shopping
Guide and is featured
on the rack card and the Market website at www.AstoriaSundayMarket.com
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