Her work looks sweet, but her materials and titles are anything but: Kathryn Andrews’s candy-based pieces are cruelly dissected by mirrors, formed of stainless steel and aluminium, and they hint at unsavoury pasttimes. The Los Angeles-based artist has just enjoyed a show at Simon Lee Gallery in Hong Kong entitled Candy Butchers, and the works mix bold colours, slightly unnerving suggestions and everyday objects from commercial and pop culture—flowers, gambling iconography, sweets. Garishly kitsch and beguilingly shiny, obvious reference points include minimalism and California’s finish fetish movement of the 1960s.
