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Food Icon & Candy Pop Art

Everyday cravings become a visual conversation. Explore food and candy references in Tom Pergola’s catalog, from playful titles to familiar objects reworked in mixed media.

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Look at both the subject and its treatment. A candy-inspired work can be nostalgic, humorous or visually surprising. These selections are based on food and candy references in the supplied titles and descriptions, not a promise about a particular material.

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17 works

Candy Man

Candy Man is a figure at near human scale, covered head to toe in candy and standing on a base of candy-covered turf. A red cap, sunglasses and a slung bag give the figure a playful, slightly surreal swagger. Tom Pergola assembles the surface from everyday objects in his Assemblage Plastique technique, so the sweetness of the material meets the weight of a monumental sculpture. At approximately 6′ × 2′ 10″ × 2′, it anchors a room.

The Cold War

The Cold War takes a refrigerator as its subject. Food, bottles and produce burst out around the appliance, while magnets and a dish towel stay on its door. The title turns a household object into a reference to a tense period of history. At approximately 6′ × 6′ × 3′ 6″, it is a monumental work built from ordinary kitchen life.

You Are What You Eat

A slow cooker overflows with colorful candy and rising mist, set on a yellow stool beside a colander of more sweets. The work turns everyday kitchen objects into a metaphor for indulgence, consumer culture and modern appetite. At approximately 2′ 9″ × 1′ 8″ × 1′ 2″, it brings humor and social commentary to a compact footprint.