Sugarcoat by Michelle Hinebrook

Hello collectors! It's Sara today, presenting this gorgeous work from painter Michelle Hinebrook. Jen first encountered her work on Tumblr and we've been falling for it a little more every day ever since.

Something between a Marilyn Minter photograph and Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory—and I mean this in the very best way possible—Sugarcoat is too much; it's too good to be true. It's almost terrifying and overwhelming—but it's so seductive. Glossy colors are layered on thick, countless, perfectly-painted orbs create a chaotic order in space and candied spheres melt into one another. Taking it all in is a visceral experience.

Sugarcoat resides in a buoyant world of fantasies where colors and forms vacillate between transparent and opaque, inundating vision and heightening all of the other senses. Lickable wallpaper lines the walls, bubbles of Waimea Falls float through the air and Fizzy Lifting drinks keep everyone soaring. There are so many distractions here that it's nearly impossible to...write a newsletter.

So, off I go! Jeffrey and I will be Brooklyn-bound at week's end to see more of Michelle's work in her studio before it's crated and shipped all over the country. If you're in the Sunshine State, you should take the opportunity to see Michelle's delicious works in person—her solo show will open at 101/exhibit in Miami in one month plus one week. The exhibition will be on view there from September 11th through October 6th.

Look for Jen tomorrow—she'll be back to introduce two new sweet prints.