Monica Cook paints beautiful and disturbing portraits of women. In her latest exhibition, Seeded and Soiled, Cook’s nude women engage with gorgeously rendered erotic food in scenes that elicit a range of emotion in the viewer from mesmerized hilarity to horror. The Georgia-born artist graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1996 and now lives and works in New York. Read the full story