Many layers of meaning in Andrea Chung exhibition at Project for Empty Space

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Certain sheets of hard candy are indistinguishable from glass. Add some impurities, or food coloring, and you might feel yourself in the presence of a jewel. It seems almost unfair that sugar should also possess crystalline beauty on top of its other intoxicating qualities, but you don’t need a sweet tooth to see that it does. Its sturdiness and translucency are boons to architecturally minded confectioners — and sugar has inspired a few concept-driven visual artists, too.

The most prominent candy-spinner in New Jersey galleries these days is Andrea Chung, artist in residence at…