Will Cotton Exhibition

Mary Boone Gallery (Midtown)

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Conjuring his signature land of plentiful sweets, for the touchstone of this group of new works the Artist depicts Katy Perry (Cotton served as Artistic Director for her 2010 California Gurls music video) as the reluctant queen of an imagined Utopia. In Crown, she stands before a palisade of pastel cakes, holding the headpiece as if wary of its obligations and consequences, realizing that a reign of opulence and profusion will inevitably conclude in decline and decay.

Cotton evokes the memory of a time before this awareness in Candy Forest, an idyllic landscape that merits bright color but is instead painted in the monochromatic palette of an old sepia photograph. Yet even in that distant past this Utopia harbored an underside - a truth underscored in the paintings Landfill and Trash Pile. Here, doughnuts, pastry, and tarts are nothing but layers in a garbage heap, their allure diminished in a realm of infinite riches.

An installation of sculpture - modeled from cakes that Cotton baked and decorated, then cast in plaster - echoes the theme of discarded abundance. These symbols of celebration and sustenance, ossified and drained of color, become cultural relics.

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Schedule

from May 03, 2012 to June 23, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-05-03 from 17:00 to 19:00

Artist(s)

Will Cotton

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