Sweet Tooth: The Art of Dessert

Sweet Tooth: The Art of Dessert explores America’s appetite for tantalizing and tasty confections and its impact on modern visual culture. Through the installations of artists working within the subject matter and dessert-themed mixed media, the works of art featured in this exhibition provide a feast for the eyes that is well worth devouring. 

Delve beneath the sugarcoated surfaces of these delectable paintings, prints, sculpture, and more, and explore the deeper threads of meaning linked to our insatiable desire for sweets.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.

Image: Chris Campbell, Teal and White Cake Heels, 2016. Mixed media. Courtesy of Shoe Bakery.