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An in-kitchen feature traces his process from a Martha Stewart recipe and buttercream techniques to how desserts and sweets shape symbolic, seductive imagery in his studio work. The piece also previews the New York Academy of Art’s annual Tribeca Ball, where Cotton will be honored, while noting his bake-off tradition and his continued role as a critic and instructor.","TRIBECA BALL 2017  \nPRESS COVERAGE  \n TRIBECA BALL 2017  \nPREVIEW COVERAGE  \nARTSY GUEST OF A GUEST THE NEW YORK TIMES  \n TRIBECA BALL 2017  \nI Baked a Cake in Will Cotton’s Candyland Studio  \nBy Casey Lesser Mar 29, 2017 6:10 pm  \n“Let’s look at some recipes!” Will Cotton offers, his face alight, as we head to the kitchen of his Tribeca loft. The New York artist is known for elegant paintings of female subjects like Katy Perry and Elle Fanning lounging in candyland-scapes or donning cupcake crowns. But he also skillfully creates the confectionshe paints, from scratch. So, on a sunny March afternoon, rather than a traditional studio visit, Cotton’s game for baking a cake.  \nIn the kitchen, which faces a studio space, he produces a copy of Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook and opens it to a yellow butter cake recipe he’s been eyeing; he then flips to a brown sugar buttercream frosting.“I love Martha,” he tells me as he scans the list of ingredients.“Her recipes are the best.” The affection is mutual: Cotton was commissioned to paint the legendary businesswoman’s portrait in 2015 for the cover of the 25th anniversary edition of her magazine—she even let him adorn her Valentino dress with faux frosting.  \nFor the past two decades, cakes, candies, macarons, and other  \ndesserts have been omnipresent in Cotton’s work. In realistic portrayals of beautiful women, he’s employed sweets for their seductive allure and symbolic associations, whether to embellish a fantastical candy queen or to emphasize the advertising industry’s keen ability to provoke desire.  \nNext week, he will be honored at the New York Academy of Art’s annual Tribeca Ball, an event that will dole out “Will Cotton Cotton Candy” to salute the sweet-toothed artist.  \nCotton’s own desire for sweets extends well beyond his studio practice. As he procures a crimson red apron for me and a black-and-white gingham print for himself, Cotton admits that he abstains from excess sugar in his daily diet, in order to indulge in cookies, pies, and pear frangipane tart—his favorite dessert.  \nThe artist has also been known to host annual bake-offs at his home, where friends, including artists and amateur bakers, present their finest baked goods. Cotton always judges alongside a guest; one year, Stewart  \nheld the position. This year it was art critic Andrew Russeth.  \nAs he lines two round cake pans with parchment, butter, and flour, he describes a timely cake from this year’s contest, which was shaped like a rock, with “Resist” scrawled graffitistyle in icing.“That took the prize this year—and it was very tasty.”  \nHe disappears into a nearby closet, which is filled to the brim with equal parts art and baking supplies, and procures a large KitchenAid mixer. As we measure and sift together the dry ingredients, Cotton explains that he began baking in earnest in the mid-’90s, around the time that he started painting cakes.  \nKeen to create paintings of tall, whimsical stacks of cakes, he’d bought out two bakeries. The experience, both expensive and messy, spurred him to perfect his own baking skills. Though he’s taken a few classes at the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) since then,“you can learn so much on YouTube now,” he says,“you almost don’t have to take a class.”  \nAfter adding eggs, butter, and vanilla extract (Cotton calls for an extra half teaspoon of vanilla), he revs up the KitchenAid and stops it every so often to methodically scrape the side of the bowl.“That’s probably amazing already,” he says while pouring the mixture into the pans. Moments later he’s licking the excess batter from the bowl.“My god, I just love this.”  \nWith the cakes in the oven and a half hour to kill, we retreat to the front of the loft to sit in the sunlight streaming through large southernfacing windows that look out onto the street. The New York Academy of Art, where Cotton attended as a student in 1987–88 and today is a senior critic, is just a few blocks away. 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