01 WILL COTTON

Cotton Candy Tree, 2005,
ink on paper, 11" x 7 1/2"

The soft strokes of monochromatic color and minimal palette of Cotton Candy Tree are what draw the viewer in. Cotton’s painted subjects are often depictions of hand-made dioramas, which are produced by the artist in his studio from actual candy. Ron Warren of Mary Boone Gallery in New York writes, “by orchestrating color and texture, Cotton evokes distinctive moods. Dioramas limited to a palette of chocolate browns produce a molten, sinister terrain…sweets, with their associations of childhood, taboos, excess, and place, provide a point of departure for examining personal experience.” Cotton, a widely-exhibited artist nationally and abroad, studied in France at the New York Academy of Art, and has been featured in The New York Times, Le Monde, Flash Art, and The New Yorker. Last year he was presented with the Princess Grace Foundation Award for Contemporary Art, Monaco.

courtesy of the artist and Mary Boone Gallery, New York

value $1,300–1,700