The 10% solution: a way to see the best of ArtPrize

Dar­lin,
You missed “Edgar” by Anthony Jackson…not that you can miss him!

Ten top rea­sons to include Dar­lene Kaczmarczyk’s work (http://www.artprize.org/artist/id/3123) in your list:
10. She hates top ten lists so much even this one may be short.
9. She fits all of your cri­te­ria above, such as:
8. Her work is about adver­tis­ing and her venue is a bill­board.
7. Adver­tis­ing IS about our times — she uses 1950’s adver­tis­ing because it’s eas­ier to swal­low a pill coated with honey
6. Her work is both whim­si­cal AND sub­ver­sive at the same time (go figure!)

and
1. She’s ask­ing you nicely to recon­sider and go look at the bill­board now installed on Mon­roe NW, cor­ner of Trow­bridge (just north of Michi­gan Ave.).

Thanks for putting in the time and effort, good luck all.

Wow, thanks for choos­ing Nourish(meant) for your list! Come visit and have a bite to eat at the New­berry Cohous­ing Com­mu­nity! We’ll be there soon… the bus is slow.

Inter­est­ing. In one thread a lit­tle micro­cosm of the prob­lems of a (so called) “open to any­one” com­pe­ti­tion. The truth is you can’t really see all 1200 plus pieces or more to the point nor would you really want to. I’m not talk­ing about the actual phys­i­cal feat but the men­tal act of try to expe­ri­ence 1200 Art works. Matthew has com­piled a list of his rec­om­mended pics and look at the responses in got. Dis­solved into thin air are all those warm fuzzy feel­ings of coma­raderie. We have some artists mak­ing rather poor cases for why they should be included and some just being down­right testy. What hap­pen to to the love of Art­Prize.?
@Dennis..Why didn’t you com­plain about the biases and lack of cred­i­bil­ity of the venue own­ers who picked who got into AP?
If you stick your hand in the snake pit you have to be ready to get bit.

den­nis,
Art­prize screams of over 100 dif­fer­ent venue bias most of which you and I might agree are ” no longer rel­e­vant to con­tem­po­rary art prac­tices”. I’m just point­ing out the fact that this didn’t seem to stop you from enter­ing. Why pick on Patul­ski?
PS. I love you work and still look for­ward to meet­ing you.

Matthew, I sug­gest that you defend your posi­tion not to include my work. I don’t think it’s nec­es­sary for me to sub­mit to you a professional/historical/curatorial jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for my sub­mit­tal. My instal­la­tion has already gone through a jury process at one of the two venues that had such a process at the out­set of Art­prize. Your arro­gance is amazing.