candycoated: Projects

housing project
Link Candy_Depew

Press
wilsonart
id-mag
theartblog
Philadelphia Inquirerer

dark to light
watch
web dark to light ballerina

between worlds
http://www.philalandmarks.org/UploadDoc/Candy%20Depew%20Press%20Release.pdf
http://www.artdaily.com/indexv5.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=17598
web between worlds dessert

iscp-nyc residency project
http://www.iscp-nyc.org/
web iscp-nyc studio

european ceramic work centre, netherlands residency project
http://www.ekwc.nl/index.cfm?fuid=66&pid=15&lijst=546&nummer=1&ID=546

web skull pile

kohler company arts/industry residency
http://www.jmkac.org/DepewCandy

web project kohler 2

sunrise.....sunset apartment
http://www.pewarts.org/2002/depew/samplemain.html
web sunrise sunset projects

petals from the same flower
http://www.rosenbach.org/education/artists/depewmcdonald.htm
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/2002/12/msg00035.html

climbing mountains
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2003-03-20/art.shtml

vinyl commissions
http://theartblog.org/2009/03/candy-depew-at-design-center-and-installations-at-park-towne-place/

prints on paper
http://www.printcenter.org/pc_store_depew_Thumb.html
http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/np_bio/depew_candy.htm

fabrics
web projects fabric

Final Presentation - Candy Depew - 8 September 2009

China Doll

China Doll, a living picture (tableaux vivants) created in the studios of EKWC features black porcelain drawings and bone china works visually woven with vinyl wall graphics, digitally printed fabrics, and still models (aka. candycoated china dolls). These "objects" and the images they create grow out of a continued, almost obsessive, interest in the act of decorating as a sculptural departure point coupled with mystical portrayals of feminine beauty. When combined, such interest breeds a "beautiful" and seductive alchemical objectification that allures, questions, and conveys.

For this presentation, live china dolls are carefully poised as still mannequins. One is adorned in a ceramic gem bejeweled gown tailored of fabric digitally printed with piles of gilded bone china skulls- an image created during a previous residency at EKWC in 2005. Sitting with a platinum bone china flute, she is a contemporary take directly referencing historical European dessert table figurines like the "The Flute Lesson", a miniature still life of young gentleman teaching a lady the fine art of flute playing.

China Doll just barely touches on the fertile grounds of erotically charged images found throughout the rich history of art. Pulling a from a range of references as early as the Venus de Willendorf to the decorative friezes of Pompeii and from more modern works of surrealist artist Hans Bellmer (circa 1930's) to American fashion photography dating from the 1970's - 1980's. From these inspired references, intriguing living pictures are arranged for display, photographed as a still life, and then transformed into a digital fabric intended for further objectification. This approach thus marries the art forms of stage and fashion with those of painting/photography/sculpture/design providing a form of visual erotic entertainment that is decoratively and uniquely candycoated.

Candy Depew