Sugarcraft

	Mark Seaman is a cake stylist and sugar artist for Libertyville’s Marked for Dessert. Winner of the 2007 National Wedding Cake Competition, he devotes hundreds of hours to each of his edible artworks. For this exhibition, Seaman has been commissioned to create a multi-tiered cake of fondant and sugar.
	With each new piece, potter-turned- assemblage artist Christine Marie Davis out of Howard, CO, begins a fresh hunt for found objects that speak to her. To these she adds surprising, enticing tactile elements and hard surfaces, such as the fake fur under glass cake dome in Strawberry Surprise.
	Columbus Ohio-based artist and curator Wynter Whiteside creates paintings that look good enough to eat. Against natural canvas, images of edibles and decorative elements are adorned by glitter and paint that’s tinted and applied like frosting. With Entryway, a painting surrounded with small shelves of fresh cupcakes, she creates a means of direct interaction with viewers, an opportunity to literally absorb her work.
	Bathing his subjects in a pure, soothing light source, New York painter Thomas Brouilette presents them as somehow skewed or off. His unexpected choices in perspective, hue and finish push the limits of what is acceptable to maintain an illusion of real space.
	Under the banner of My Paper Crane, Waynesboro, PA artist Heidi Kenney gives birth to a population of wide-eyed inanimate objects in plush. With Pink Cake Crying, she contrasts nubby fabrics and fine stitching with the pain and separation anxiety felt by a recently cut layer cake and its missing piece.
	Naoshi is a Yokohama-based graphic artist who works in the Japanese medium of sunae, or sand painting. To this exhibition she contributes her whimsical original superhero creation Ice Cream Man, as well as a selection of vibrant, childlike cutout figures.
	Alison Tennant from Wallasey, Wirral, UK, shares the fruits of her lifelong love of anything miniaturized. Taking polymer clay in hand (molds are never used), she shapes a mouthwatering array of exquisitely detailed cakes and candies made 1:12 scale. Tennant is a member of Custom Dolls House Miniatures and the International Guild for Miniature Artisans.
	To reflect the feminine experience of childhood and adolescence, Chicago’s Nikki Renee Anderson revisits the words of Mother Goose for her most recent work. The sculpture series melds what little girls are made of physically and figuratively (sugar, spice, everything nice) into a soft-serve confection of creamy eroticized form and candy-colored coating.

	Brandy Agnew www.brandyagnew.com Columbus, OH Nikki Renee Anderson www.nikkireneeanderson.com Chicago, IL Thomas Brouillette www.larissagoldston.com NY, NY Kris Chau www.krischau.com Philadelphia, PA Sally Curcio www.sallycurcio.com Northampton, MA Christine Marie Davis www.tactileart.com Howard, CO Stephanie Divencenzo www.lilacgirl.etsy.com Danvers, MA Bee Harris www.flickr.com/beeharris Detroit, MI & Long Beach, CA James Jaxxa www.jamesjaxxa.com NY, NY Jay Krevens The Kitty Mix www.thekittymix.com Chicago, IL My Paper Crane Heidi Kenney www.mypapercrane.com Waynesboro, PA Naoshi www.naoshii-u-iii.com Yokohama,Kanagawa, Japan Matt Neff Philadelphia, PA Amy Neiwirth Sweet Stella Designs www.sweetstelladesigns.com Columbus, OH Kristen Pavelka Maplewood, MN Connie Richards www.connierichards.deviantart.com/gallery Columbus, OH Kathy Santiago of Everlasting Cakes www.everlastingcaskes.co.uk Milton Keynes, UK Mark Seaman www.markedfordessert.com Chicago, IL Lindsey Sedlar www.lindseysedlar.etsy.com Portland, OR DeAnna Skedal Kansas City, MO Amy Stevens www.amystevensart.com Philadelphia, PA Isadora Stowe www.isadorastowe.com Las Cruces, New Mexico Tilly Strauss www.tillystudio.com Amenia, NY Jen Thomas www.flickr.com/photos/jenthomas Chicago, IL Colleen Toledano Philadelphia, PA Twinkie Chan! www.twinkiechan.com San Francisco, CA Mirek Vlas www.miroscreation.com Columbus, OH Wynter Whiteside www.okya.co.uk/wynterwhiteside Columbus, OH	Lindsey Ashpole edababe www.edababe.etsy.com Carteret, NJ Kandi Boda Tempe, AZ Chrissy Brown www.chrissybrown.etsy.com Lincolnshire, England Polly Conway Pollyannacowgirl www.pollyannacowgirl.etsy.com San Francisco, CA Megumi Cummings Sweet Honey Complex www.sweethoneycomplex.com Peachtree, GA Itzel Garza mcdoofus www.spastic-meteor.com Chicago, IL Christine Green www.kitcheninthecupboard.com Raymond, NH April Hiraki-Morris pukashell www.pukashell.com West Covina, CA Mio Ishida miomio www.miomio.etsy.com Minneapolis, MN Briana Moore nest www.nest.etsy.com Hot Springs, AZ Diane Paone www.dianepaone.com Lake Hiawatha, NJ Chiara Puppo Eat Me Not www.aoisart.com Pleasanton, CA Elizabeth Raine Eat Me Not www.eatmenot.co.uk Sevenoaks , Kent, United Kingdom Sonicim www.myspace.com/cake_love Lexington, KY Jennifer Sternhagen Kung Fu Cowgirl www.kungfucowgirl.etsy.com Plymouth, WI Alison Tennant www.alisonsminiatures.com Wallasey, Wirral , England Joan Burge Wallick crashcanstudio www.crashcanstudio.etsy.com Woodstock, GA Emily-Kitturah Westenhouser www.umbrellagirlproductions.com Columbus, OH Tracy Yip Meowgu www.meowgu.etsy.com Ontario , Canada Ong Xiao Yun mudtears http://ongxiaoyun.sg Singapore