The Candy Store Gallery was a site of convergence and exchange for a network of innovative artists—from those linked to California’s Funk and Nut art, to Chicago’s Hairy Who.
Tour the exhibition Nuts and Who's: A Candy Store Sampler with Nidhi Gandhi, curatorial and programs associate. The exhibition brings together works by many artists who contributed to this “regional attitude” at the Candy Store. Drawn primarily from SJMA’s permanent collection, artists featured in the exhibition Robert Arneson, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Clayton Bailey, John Buck, Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, Irving Marcus, Tony Natsoulas, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Maija Peeples-Bright, Peter VandenBerge, William T. Wiley, Franklin Williams, Karl Wirsum, and others.