by Alicia | Aug 29, 2010 | Art Writing, Press, Queer, Writing
I tried to sleep in today but I couldn’t. Typical. It’s 6:30am on a Saturday morning, and I’m out on my back porch staring at the sun and watering my basil plant. The other weekend I took a three-day trip to New Mexico for a gay wedding, and forgot to ask...
by Alicia | Aug 3, 2010 | Art Writing, BRAVO's Work of Art, News, Writing
In Episode 8 of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, three artist pairs were selected at random, and given an assignment to jointly create works of art about opposing forces. Peregrine Honig and Mark Velasquez worked on “Heaven and Hell,” Nicole Nadeau and Abdi Farah...
by Alicia | Jul 22, 2010 | Art Writing, BRAVO's Work of Art, News, Writing
What does it mean to be an artist? Where do artists draw inspiration? That’s what the producers of BRAVO’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, decided to ask the artist contestants in this week’s episode, “Child’s Play.” For this week’s challenge, the artists were...
by Alicia | Jul 15, 2010 | Art Writing, BRAVO's Work of Art, News, Writing
Creating meaningful art work on one’s own in a short period of time is hard enough, but working on a collaborative project with a team of artists who, as past episodes have revealed, do not share each other’s vision? I was shocked when I learned about this week’s...
by Alicia | Jul 14, 2010 | Art Writing, BRAVO's Work of Art, News, Writing
Last week on BRAVO’s art reality TV show,Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, the artist contestants were given the challenge of driving three Audi cars from the Audi showroom to 47th & Park, and then making a piece based on their journey. The Audi drive was not...
