Candy Girls and Boys Under the Jellybean Tree Featuring Candy in the Tree: Strawberry Pop-Tarts, Kinder Joy for Girls, Kinder Joy for Boys, Hostess Twinkies, Hostess Ho Hos, Hostess Cupcakes, Cherry Tootsie Pop, Sugar Babies, Peeps (bunnies and chicks), Hot Tamales, Unicorn Glitter Berry Baby Bottle Pop, Sweethearts (Be Mine, Baby Doll, Cutie Pie, Sweet Pea). Featuring Candy Shoes (from left): Red Hots, Life Savers, Strawberry Twizzlers, Pixie Stix, M&M’s, Good & Plenty, Sno-Caps, Gumballs, Pinwheel Starlight Mints. Featuring Vaccine Candy: Junior Mints, Dots, Cotton Candy Explosion Pop Rocks, Wintergreen Tic Tacs. Featuring Painted Clothing (from left) Banksy “Balloon Girl” shirt and pants, Candy Land game shirt and bullet hole pants, John Currin “The Nursery” dress with basket of Sweethearts (Kiss, Hug, Luv), Lisa Yuskavage “Unknown” shirt, Pixie Stix pants, Maria Spector “Girl with Shirley Temple Dress”, Jeff Koons “Naked”/Jean-Francois Beuret “Enfants” dress, Sally Mann “Emmett, Jessie and Virginia” dress with black licorice wheel belt, Alice Neel “Isabetta” dress. Featuring Flowers and Fruit: Tulips, forget-me-nots, daisies, cherry blossoms, cherries. Inspired by the poem “The Sugar-Plum Tree” by Eugene Field.
2021
Gouache on Paper
22”x41 1/2”