Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
Encyclopedia
Work of Art: The Next Great Artist is an American reality
competition show that airs on the cable television
network Bravo, in which up-and-coming artists compete for a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
and a cash prize of $100,000. The show is produced by Pretty Matches Productions and Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created Project Runway
and Top Chef
. The series premiered on June 9, 2010. Work of Art was renewed for a second season in September 2010 which began on October 12, 2011.
In the order eliminated:
: John had his book cover published by Penguin Books
; he did not receive immunity.
: Beginning with this episode, the winners no longer received immunity.
In alphabetical order:
: Young had a two-page spread published in Entertainment Weekly
; he did not receive immunity.
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
competition show that airs on the cable television
Cable television
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network Bravo, in which up-and-coming artists compete for a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an encyclopedia art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works....
and a cash prize of $100,000. The show is produced by Pretty Matches Productions and Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created Project Runway
Project Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...
and Top Chef
Top Chef
Top Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo, in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants...
. The series premiered on June 9, 2010. Work of Art was renewed for a second season in September 2010 which began on October 12, 2011.
Judges
- China ChowChina ChowChina Chow is a British actress and model.-Personal life:Chow was born in London, England to restaurateur Michael Chow and late model/designer Tina Chow. She is of Chinese, Japanese, German, and Scottish ancestry. Chow has a brother who is three years younger. Her aunt is actress and one-time Bond...
(Host/Judge) - Jerry SaltzJerry SaltzJerry Saltz is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and a columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. He was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney...
(Judge) - Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (Judge)
- Bill Powers (Judge)
- Simon de PurySimon de PurySimon de Pury is a Swiss art auctioneer and collector. He is chairman and co-founder of the art auction house Phillips de Pury & Company, one of the largest art auction houses in the world. Mr. de Pury is often called "the Mick Jagger of art auctions" for his masterful, exciting style of...
(Mentor)
Contestants
Fourteen artists competed in the first season of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.In the order eliminated:
- Amanda Williams, 34 — Resides in: Chicago, Illinois
- Trong Nguyen, 38 — Resides in: Brooklyn, New York
- Judith Braun, 61 — Resides in: New York City, New York
- Nao Bustamante, 41 — Resides in: Troy, New YorkTroy, New YorkTroy is a city in the US State of New York and the seat of Rensselaer County. Troy is located on the western edge of Rensselaer County and on the eastern bank of the Hudson River. Troy has close ties to the nearby cities of Albany and Schenectady, forming a region popularly called the Capital...
- John Parot, 39 — Resides in: Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
- Jaime Lynn Henderson, 24 — Resides in: Chicago, Illinois
- Erik Johnson, 30 — Resides in: Chicago, Illinois
- Ryan Shultz, 26 — Resides in: Chicago, Illinois
- Mark VelasquezMark VelasquezMark Velasquez is a photographer who competed on the first season of Bravo's reality television competition, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.-Early life:...
, 32 — Resides in: Santa Maria, CaliforniaSanta Maria, CaliforniaSanta Maria is a city in Santa Barbara County, on the Central Coast of California. The 2010 census population was 100,062, putting it ahead of Santa Barbara for the first time and making it the largest city in the county... - Jaclyn Santos, 25 — Resides in: Manhattan, New York
- Nicole Nadeau, 25 — Resides in: Manhattan, New York
- Miles Mendenhall, 23 — Resides in: Minneapolis, MinnesotaMinneapolis, MinnesotaMinneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
-- Runner-up - Peregrine HonigPeregrine HonigPeregrine Honig is an American artist whose work is concerned with the relationship between pop culture, sexual vulnerability, social anxieties, the ethics of luxury and trends in consumerism.- Work :...
, 32 — Resides in: Kansas City, MissouriKansas City, MissouriKansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
-- Runner-up - Abdi Farah, 22 — Resides in: Baltimore, Maryland -- Winner
Contestant progress
| Episode | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdi | HIGH | HIGH | IN | WIN | IN | HIGH | LOW | LOW | WIN | WINNER |
| Peregrine | IN | IN | LOW | IN | IN | IN | WIN | IN | LOW | RUNNER-UP |
| Miles | WIN | WIN | IN | IN | HIGH | LOW | IN | WIN | HIGH | RUNNER-UP |
| Nicole | IN | HIGH | IN | IN | IN | WIN | HIGH | IN | OUT | |
| Jaclyn | IN | IN | LOW | HIGH | WIN | IN | LOW | WIN | OUT | |
| Mark | HIGH | IN | HIGH | IN | LOW | HIGH | IN | OUT | ||
| Ryan | IN | IN | IN | IN | LOW | HIGH | OUT | |||
| Erik | LOW | IN | IN | LOW | IN | OUT | ||||
| Jaime Lynn | IN | LOW | IN | LOW | OUT | |||||
| John | IN | IN | WIN | OUT | ||||||
| Nao | LOW | IN | IN | OUT | ||||||
| Judith | IN | LOW | OUT | |||||||
| Trong | IN | OUT | ||||||||
| Amanda | OUT | |||||||||
: John had his book cover published by Penguin Books
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
; he did not receive immunity.
: Beginning with this episode, the winners no longer received immunity.
- (WINNER) The artist won Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.
- (RUNNER-UP) The artist was a runner-up for the season.
- (WIN) The artist won that episode's challenge.
- (HIGH) The artist was selected as one of the top entries in the challenge, but did not win.
- (IN) The artist neither won nor lost that week's challenge. They also were not up to be eliminated.
- (LOW) The artist was selected as one of the bottom entries in the challenge, but was not eliminated.
- (OUT) The artist lost that week's challenge and was out of the competition.
Episode 1: Self-Reflexive
Air date: June 9, 2010- Challenge: Create a portrait of one of your fellow artists.
- Challenge winner: Miles
- Bottom three: Amanda, Erik, Nao
- Eliminated: Amanda
Episode 2: The Shape of Things to Come
Air date: June 16, 2010- Challenge: Create a sculptural piece from items selected from an electronics graveyard.
- Guest judge: Jon KesslerJon KesslerJon Kessler is an American artist. He began college at SUNY Purchase from 1974—78 but left after two years to travel in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. He returned to Purchase in 1978 and graduated in 1980 with honors. Following graduation, Kessler took up a studio in Brooklyn, New York where...
- Guest judge: Jon Kessler
- Challenge winner: Miles
- Bottom three: Jaime Lynn, Judith, Trong
- Eliminated: Trong
Episode 3: Judging a Book By Its Cover
Air date: June 23, 2010- Challenge: Design a book cover for one of six classic novels, Alice's Adventures in WonderlandAlice's Adventures in WonderlandAlice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures...
, DraculaDraculaDracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...
, FrankensteinFrankensteinFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...
, Pride and PrejudicePride and PrejudicePride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England...
, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Time MachineThe Time MachineThe Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction...
.- Guest judge: Jonathan Santlofer
- Challenge winner: John
- John's cover for The Time Machine was published by Penguin BooksPenguin BooksPenguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
; he did not receive immunity.
- John's cover for The Time Machine was published by Penguin Books
- Bottom three: Jaclyn, Judith, Peregrine
- Eliminated: Judith
Episode 4: A Shock to the System
Air date: June 30, 2010- Challenge: Create a shocking piece.
- Guest judge: Andres SerranoAndres SerranoAndres Serrano is an American photographer and artist who has become notorious through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported...
- Guest judge: Andres Serrano
- Challenge winner: Abdi
- Bottom four: Erik, Jaime Lynn, John, Nao
- Eliminated: John, Nao
Episode 5: Art That Moves You
Air date: July 7, 2010- Challenge: Create a work of art based on your AudiAudiAudi AG is a German automobile manufacturer, from supermini to crossover SUVs in various body styles and price ranges that are marketed under the Audi brand , positioned as the premium brand within the Volkswagen Group....
experience.- Guest judge: Richard PhillipsRichard Phillips (artist)Richard Phillips , is an artist from the United States of America. He was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts and lives and works in New York City. Phillips is known for his large-scale glossy hyper-realistic paintings, recalling the pictorial style of magazines from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and...
- Guest judge: Richard Phillips
- Challenge winner: Jaclyn
- Bottom three: Jaime Lynn, Mark, Ryan
- Eliminated: Jaime Lynn
Episode 6: Open to the Public
Air date: July 14, 2010- Challenge: Create a piece of public art.
- Guest judge: Yvonne Force Villareal
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- Red Team: Abdi, Mark, Nicole, Ryan
- Blue Team: Erik, Jaclyn, Miles, Peregrine
- Challenge winner: Red Team
- Individual winner: Nicole
- Bottom two: Erik, Miles
- Eliminated: Erik
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Episode 7: Child's Play
Air date: July 21, 2010- Challenge: Create a piece based on what ignited your artistic expression, using only supplies found at the Children's Museum of the ArtsChildren's Museum of the ArtsIn October 2011, The Children's Museum of the Arts is located in Manhattan, New York City, USA,moved from it's SoHo location to a new home on Charlton Street in Hudson Square. Designed by Work Architecture Company,...
. - Guest judge: Will CottonWill CottonWill Cotton is an American painter. His work primarily features landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by human subjects...
- Challenge winner: Peregrine
- Bottom three: Abdi, Jaclyn, Ryan
- Eliminated: Ryan
Episode 8: Opposites Attract
Air date: July 28, 2010- Challenge: Create an artwork about opposing forces: Heaven and Hell (Mark/Peregrine); Male and Female (Miles/Jaclyn); Order and Chaos (Abdi/Nicole).
- Guest judge: Ryan McGinnessRyan McGinnessRyan McGinness is an American artist, living and working in Manhattan, New York. He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and then studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an...
- Challenge winners: Miles, Jaclyn
- Bottom two: Abdi, Mark
- Eliminated: Mark
Episode 9: Natural Talents
Air date: August 4, 2010- Challenge: Create a piece inspired from nature and landscape incorporating materials gathered from a Connecticut nature preserve.
- Guest judge: Michele Oka Doner
- Challenge winner: Abdi
- Bottom three: Jaclyn, Nicole, Peregrine
- Eliminated: Jaclyn, Nicole
Episode 10: The Big Show
Air date: August 11, 2010- Challenge: The remaining artists return home, where they have three months to develop a final exhibition using themes of their own choosing.
- Guest judge: David LaChapelleDavid LaChapelleDavid LaChapelle is a photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique, sexualized, and often humorous style.-Early life:...
- Winner: Abdi
- Runners-up: Miles, Peregrine
Judges
- China ChowChina ChowChina Chow is a British actress and model.-Personal life:Chow was born in London, England to restaurateur Michael Chow and late model/designer Tina Chow. She is of Chinese, Japanese, German, and Scottish ancestry. Chow has a brother who is three years younger. Her aunt is actress and one-time Bond...
(Host/Judge) - Jerry SaltzJerry SaltzJerry Saltz is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and a columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. He was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney...
(Judge) - Bill Powers (Judge)
- Simon de PurySimon de PurySimon de Pury is a Swiss art auctioneer and collector. He is chairman and co-founder of the art auction house Phillips de Pury & Company, one of the largest art auction houses in the world. Mr. de Pury is often called "the Mick Jagger of art auctions" for his masterful, exciting style of...
(Mentor)
Contestants
Fourteen artists competed in the second season of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.In alphabetical order:
- Bayeté Ross Smith, 35, video artist — Resides in: New York City, New York
- Dusty Mitchell, 32, installation artist/sculptor — Resides in: Mountain View, ArkansasMountain View, ArkansasMountain View is the largest city in and the county seat of Stone County in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 2,998. The town's name comes from its location in a valley surrounded by the eastern Ozark...
- Jazz-Minh Moore, 32, figurative painterFigurative artFigurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork—particularly paintings and sculptures—which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational.-Definition:...
— Resides in: New York City, New York - Kathryn Parker Almanas, 29, photographer — Resides in: Brooklyn, New York
- Kymia Nawabi, 30, drawer/painter — Resides in: New York City, New York
- Leon LimLeon LimLeon Lim is an artist, designer and photographer who was schooled in Kedah and Penang and lives in New York City. He has been profoundly deaf since birth and his deafness developed his strong sense of seeing. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, New...
, 31, installation artist — Resides in: KedahKedahKedah is a state of Malaysia, located in the northwestern part of Peninsular Malaysia. The state covers a total area of over 9,000 km², and it consists of the mainland and Langkawi. The mainland has a relatively flat terrain, which is used to grow rice...
, Malaysia - Lola Thompson, 24, sculptor — Resides in: Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
- Michelle Matson, 29, sculptor — Resides in: Bridgewater, New Jersey
- Sara Jimenez, 26, figurative painterFigurative artFigurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork—particularly paintings and sculptures—which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational.-Definition:...
— Resides in: New York City, New York - Sarah Kabot, 34, installation artist/sculptor — Resides in: Cleveland, OhioCleveland, OhioCleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
- Morgan "Sucklord" PhillipsThe SucklordThe Sucklord is a New York pop artist. He manufactures unlicensed action figures and toys through his company, Suckadelic...
, 42, toy art designer — Resides in: New York City, New York - Michael "Tewz" Chlebowski, 30, street artist — Resides in: Chicago, Illinois
- Ugo Nonis, 33, line artist — Resides in: Paris, France
- Young Sun Han, 28, performance artist/photographer — Resides in: Skokie, IllinoisSkokie, IllinoisSkokie is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Its name comes from a Native American word for "fire". A Chicago suburb, for many years Skokie promoted itself as "The World's Largest Village". Its population, per the 2000 census, was 63,348...
Contestant progress
| Episode | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dusty | IN | IN (+) | LOW | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | IN | |||
| Lola | HIGH | LOW | IN | IN | HIGH | LOW | LOW | |||
| Sarah | IN | IN (+) | IN | IN | LOW | LOW | HIGH | |||
| Kymia | IN | IN (+) | HIGH | WIN | IN | HIGH | LOW | |||
| Sara | HIGH | IN (+) | IN | LOW | IN | HIGH | WIN | |||
| Young Sun | IN | IN (-) | WIN | IN | WIN | WIN | IN | |||
| Michelle | WIN | HIGH | LOW | IN | IN | LOW | OUT | |||
| The Sucklord | LOW | IN (+) | IN | LOW | LOW | OUT | ||||
| Bayeté | LOW | WIN | IN | IN | OUT | |||||
| Tewz | IN | LOW | IN | OUT | ||||||
| Leon | IN | IN (-) | OUT | |||||||
| Jazz-Minh | IN | IN (-) | OUT | |||||||
| Kathryn | IN | OUT | ||||||||
| Ugo | OUT | |||||||||
: Young had a two-page spread published in Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
; he did not receive immunity.
- (WINNER) The artist won the season of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.
- (RUNNER-UP) The artist was a runner-up for the season.
- (WIN) The artist won that episode's challenge.
- (HIGH) The artist was selected as one of the top entries in the challenge, but did not win.
- (IN) The artist neither won nor lost that week's challenge. They also were not up to be eliminated.
- (LOW) The artist was selected as one of the bottom entries in the challenge, but was not eliminated.
- (OUT) The artist lost that week's challenge and was out of the competition.
Episode 1: Kitsch Me If You Can
Air date: October 12, 2011- Challenge: The artists must use pieces of "bad" art, such as a painting of dogs playing checkers, a velvet cowboy, and a sculptural golden peacock as their canvas.
- Guest judge: Mary Ellen MarkMary Ellen MarkMary Ellen Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. She has had 16 collections of her work published and has been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. She has received numerous accolades, including three Robert F...
- Challenge winner: Michelle
- Bottom three: Bayeté, The Sucklord, Ugo
- Eliminated: Ugo
Episode 2: Art Movement
Air date: October 19, 2011- Challenge: The artists must use parkour, a discipline where participants overcome obstacles using only their bodies to move from point A to point B in the most creative and inventive way possible, as their inspiration.
- Guest judge: Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
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- Team Loop: Jazz-Minh, Kathryn, Leon, Lola, Tewz, Young Sun
- Team Play With Me: Bayeté, Dusty, Kymia, Michelle, Sara, Sarah, The Sucklord
- Challenge winner: Play With Me
- Individual winner: Bayeté
- Bottom three: Kathryn, Lola, Tewz
- Eliminated: Kathryn
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Episode 3: Make It Pop
Air date: October 26, 2011- Challenge: The contestants must create a piece of pop art that captures the popular culture of their time.
- Guest judge: Rob PruittRob PruittRobert "Rob" Pruitt is a visual artist based in New York City.Pruitt grew up in Rockville, Maryland. In a 2010 exhibition at Gavin Brown's enterprise he showed several works influenced by Amish tradition....
- Challenge winner: Young Sun
- Bottom four: Leon, Dusty, Michelle, Jazz-Minh
- Eliminated: Jazz-Minh, Leon
Episode 4: Back to School
Air date: November 2, 2011- Challenge: The artists are challenged to create a piece of art inspired by the original artwork of the child they are paired with.
- Guest judge: Sarah Jessica ParkerSarah Jessica ParkerSarah Jessica Parker is an American film, television, and theater actress and producer.She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City , for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards...
- Challenge winner: Kymia
- Bottom three: Sara, The Sucklord, Tewz
- Eliminated: Tewz
Episode 5: Ripped from the Headlines
Air date: November 9, 2011- Challenge: The artists must create a piece of art that illustrates a headline which strikes a chord with them.
- Guest judge: Adam McEwen
- Challenge winner: Young Sun
- Bottom three: Bayeté, Sarah K., The Sucklord
- Eliminated: Bayeté
Episode 6: Street Dealers
Air date: November 16, 2011- Challenge: The artists are challenged to leave their mark on New York with a work that embodies the subversion of street art.
- Guest judge:
- Challenge winners: Dusty and Young Sun
- Bottom four: Lola, Michelle, The Sucklord, Sarah
- Eliminated: The Sucklord
Episode 7: La Dolce Arte
Air date: November 30, 2011- Challenge: The artists must utilize one automobile component from a Fiat 500 and transform it into a piece of art.
- Guest judge: Liz CohenLiz CohenLiz Cohen is a performance artist and automotive designer. Cohen has an MFA in photography from California College of the Arts and Crafts, , where she has taught. She currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona....
- Challenge winner: Sara
- Bottom three: Kymia, Lola, Michelle
- Eliminated: Michelle