Candy Jernigan was the wife of Philip Glass.
Candy Jernigan was an American multimedia artist, graphic designer, set designer, and instrumental in the avant-garde art scenes of Provincetown and New York City in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Born in Miami in 1952, Jernigan graduated from Miami Palmetto High School in 1969 before attending the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and first worked as a set and costume designer in Provincetown, Massachusetts before 1975.
She was described by realist painter and friend Lisbeth Firmin as an influential figure in the town’s arts scene, being extensively involved in its theatre and the Provincetown Art Association.
Jernigan met Philip Glass in 1981 on a flight from Amsterdam to New York, and during their relationship would go on to design several of his album covers including The Photographer, Dance, and In the Upper Room, among others.
Within a few years, she had moved in with Glass in his rowhouse in the East Village, helping to raise his children from his first marriage, Juliet and Zachary.
The couple spent the majority of their relationship as cohabitants, before marrying in 1991. Jernigan died the same year of liver cancer at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, following a prolonged period of illness, having only been correctly diagnosed within weeks of her death.