Margaret Braun is a New York based artist whose intricate 3-dimensional work in cake, sugar, porcelain and other media are the practical manifestations of a lifetime of drawing on all available surfaces in pursuit of the best shapes.
Her recent works on paper are a deep dive into in 2-dimensional space from the perspective of a person who has used a pastry bag to pipe real shapes onto things. They are like action maps that are drafted by a hand cast out into nowhere and fast enough to harness gravity and create structure. Events and places both real and imagined are recorded in these environments .
Author of Cakewalk (Rizzoli, 2001) Margaret is known as a pioneering cake designer, whose boundary breaking approach to the confectionary arts influenced a generation of cake decorators. Her cakes brought her to a Royal Wedding in the Middle East where she decorated 2,000 cakes in the Queen’s Ramadan Tent, to a masquerade ball at Palazzo Grassi in Venice with a multi-tiered gold leafed,sugar mosaic centerpiece, to a castle in Ireland with Marilyn Manson’s Wedding Cake, and back home where she made a 30 foot tall, day-glo,exploding cake sculpture food and music festival in Brooklyn.
Her paper thin, hand-built and piped porcelain pieces are are extension of her confectionary work . Her studio practice is methodical and rigorous - that of a seasoned kitchen worker on the clock. who is driven to produce, repeat and refine.
During her residency at The Museum of Arts and Design, she completed an installation of 2,000 hand-hewn cups made out of sugar. Each cup was intricately piped, and no two alike.
Margaret, loves challenging, seemingly impossible projects..
. She has taught in Europe and South America and conducts a sugar sculpture workshop Italy. Her work has been featured extensively in film and print.
For commissions, studio visits and purchase
contact: margaretbraun@me.com
*You can learn more about by Margaret by reading about her in EATER and in VOGUE