While Depew regularly borrows from traditional decorative arts sources such as old wallpaper and textile patterns, there is something pop-culture and contemporary to her style.  Here diamonds explode from around the sink as out of a cartoon.

Talk about the art of decorating!

Candy Depew is an artist and a designer, a master silk screener, a visionary, an entrepreneur and a force of nature. When she isn't trotting around the world to collect prints and decorative arts, she creates colorful, playful installations that blur the distinction between art and interior design. She is developing an art design lifestyle magazine called Candycoated and a Studio School dedicated to the decorative arts in Philadelphia. And she is doing all this by hand screening and selling a line of high end women's underwear.

Depew has transformed the Design Center in Philadelphia into a playhouse: a crystal cave bedroom with handmade porcelain souvenirs that cluster and spill all over the furniture. There is a speak-easy salon where mannequins are posed in conversation, dressed in garments from the Design Center’s collection. The library is now tented in paisleys. Clusters of prints and giant crystals heap on and tumble off the mantle. The patterns have taken the environment hostage … and we love it!

Candy Depew was born in Ohio and has lectured on and shown her sculptural ceramic work, silkscreen prints, and room installations at universities and galleries in Cleveland, New York , Philadelphia, Amsterdam , and London.  Candy worked with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia from 1998 to 2002, advancing to the position of Master Printer. In 2002, she received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, which enabled her to complete a five-year artist residency at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia. In 2004, she was selected for a four-month artist residency at the Kohler Arts/Industry Program in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In 2005, she was honored with a residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre in DenBosch, The Netherlands, with film-work in Amsterdam, and most recently an NEA, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and Chiem-Ried funded studio residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program-NYC.

Depew used her own screen-printed textiles for some components of the installation, but she also pulled from The Design Center's extensive textile and garment collections to create several rooms with very distinctive and playful moods.