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Vision
This magazine project is essentially a sculpture that will manifest
itself in the form of a seasonal international print publication.
The project aims at the dissemination, promotion, and study of decorative
art and culture. CandyCoated Magazine has come out of a continuing
quest to fuse my investigations of the environments that support
creative activity, my personal interest and research in the decorative
arts, ornamentation, design, and the organization of space.
Through photographic essays, visual stories will
unfold and overlap. These explorations will force the historic and
contemporary definitions of decorative arts to merge and separate;
revealing the production behind the genre, the people that participate
in its creation, and the environments which foster and incubate
these creative processes. CandyCoated will also be looking towards
architecture, interior design, art, music, fashion, and beauty to
shape the visual essays on the decorative. Additionally, CandyCoated
will look beyond the creation state and focus on the realms in which
these objects have come to reside.
In this manner, through images, a contribution is
made to the world of beauty that exists and surrounds us.
Candy
Depew Artist Statement
My mother had an all-consuming passion that drove her to amass a
vast collection of antiques and decorative objects. Her massive
inventory literally filled the home in which we lived. The walls
were lined with glass and mirror cabinets filled with examples of
early American cut glass, European porcelains, and other Worldly
goods. These cabinets housed, protected, and categorically displayed
the examples of her obsession and desire. My exposure every day
for 17 years to the cabinets provided me with a heightened visual
vocabulary for understanding pattern, style, and design, as well
as arrangements of form and surface.
My mother's urge to collect and to decorate
the domestic environment with those collections is the driving force
behind the sculpture that I make. My work investigates the environments
and places created by and for collections, and represents my personal
interest in the decorative arts, ornamentation, the history of design,
and finally, organization of interior space. I have become aware
of not only the subtle relationships among the decorative, design,
and the fine arts, but also the potential for combining these genres.
Link to Candy Depew PORTFOLIO on inliquid.com
Advisors
Aaron Igler Lighting for Urban Rooftop Environments (LURE)
Melissa Franklin PEW Fellowships in the Arts
Bennett Simpson Institute of Contemporary Art, U of Penn
Bill Adair Rosenbach Museum and Library
Hester Stinett Tyler School of Art
Jenifer Tractman Temple Alumni Association
Alex Baker Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Ellen Napier The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Teresa Jaynes Philadelphia Print Collaborative
Eva Kwong Kent State University
Acknowledgments
Jeff Guido The Clay Studio
John Tercier The London Consortium
Kathy Batista Artangel, London
Paula Jalfon
Gabriel Martinez
Sinisa Kukec
Juliette Brody Juliette B Designs
Rachel Zimmerman InLiquid.com
Kathryn Van Voorhees
The Pew Fellowships in the Arts
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
The Clay Studio
John Michael Kohler Arts and Industry Program
European Ceramic Work Centre
Contributors
Aaron Igler
Dolly
RDS
Leroy Johnson
Nancy Lewis
Marina Borker
Dave Guinn
Che Rhodes
Sinisa Kukec
George Depew
Marc Robinson
Fantes / Cake Decorating Class
Heeseung Lee
Hide Saddohara
Joy Feasley
Paul Swenbeck
Tasty D-Light
Stephanie Wrightsman
Yoga Dan
George Lorentz
Kathryn Narrow
Kathryn Van Voorhees
Eric McDade
Mark Toscani
Eva Kwong
Gregg Giovanni
Ephraim Russel
Andrew Jeffery Wright
Dr. Karen Reivich, PhD
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