Work or Fart
April 9th, 2010“I love art,” says Sarah Jessica Parker. “I know virtually nothing about it.”
And art loves you.
We learned this week a little bit about the art world’s very own reality competition series, Work of Art. The website gives us brief bios about the high-ranking judges and the mostly unknown artists, complete with head-to-toe portraits of each artist.
I found some of their websites or gallery pages, in case you want to judge for yourself who will be “the next great artist.” Then again, who are you to judge? You think you know more than…uh…China Chow?
The artists:
2. Nicole Nadeau (Is connected: her aunt is Countess Luann deLesseps from Bravo’s Real Housewives of NYC. Is that nepotistic? Or is it “cross-marketing?”)
3. Miles Mendenhall (the cute one, he even plays guitar!)
5. Erik Johnson (who is supposed to be like “Puck” from The Real World and maybe Banks Violette)
6. Mark Velasquez (and his blog)
7. John Parot^
9. Amanda Williams*^
10. Abdi Farah*
11. Jaclyn Santos
12. Ryan Shultz^
13. Trong Nguyen+ (note his 2009 project, Artists Commercials) (Trong had the studio next to mine at LMCC in 2006-7, twice as many windows, four times as much mousse)
14. Judith Braun+ (badass and venerable sexagenarian with nothing to lose, so I’ll keep my mouth shut; Use the Force, brave Judith!)
When the dust settles, one of these artists will get $100,000 (cool) and a show at the Brooklyn Museum (big whoop).
*Denotes Ivy Leaguer
^Denotes Chicago origins/connections
+Denotes same hair style