Sarah Jessica Parker's 'Work Of Art' Returns For Season 2 On Bravo (VIDEO)

Bravo's art world version of Project Runway will return for a season 2. The competition, called "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist," pits 14 artists against each other to win a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum and $100,000 cash.

According to the press release, "China Chow, host and judge, lends her artistic grace to the second season of Bravo's cutting-edge competition that brings fine art dialogue to the forefront of pop culture. Returning to the judging panel is Bill Powers, a New York Gallery owner and literary art contributor, as well as Jerry Saltz, senior art critic for New York Magazine. World-renowned art auctioneer Simon de Pury adds his voice of expertise as a mentor to the contestants."

China Chow also hosted the previous season of "Work Of Art." Guest judges for this season include Adam McEwen, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, KAWS and Mary Ellen Mark. This year's contestants are:
-Bayete - 34, Hometown: New York, NY
– Michelle - 29, Hometown: Bridgewater, NJ
– Dusty - 32, Hometown: Mountain View, AR
– Jazz-Minh - 33, Hometown: New York, NY
– Kathryn - 29, Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
– Kymia -30, Hometown: New York, NY
– Leon - 31, Hometown: Kedah, Malaysia
– Lola - 24, Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
– Sara - 26, Hometown: New York, NY
– Sarah - 34, Hometown: Cleveland, OH
– Sucklord - 41, Hometown: New York, NY
– Tewz - 30, Hometown: Chicago, IL
– Ugo - 33, Hometown: Paris, France
– Young Sun - 28, Hometown: Morton Grove, IL

For a sneak preview of the new season watch the video below!

Comments

[The JillyBean]

12:34 PM on 09/03/2011

This show like Project Runway makes a joke of art. It serves to essentially give something to eat popcorn to. It's nice that SJP found something to make money with where her face isn't required, but this show has nothing to do with art, other than a gimmick for a show.

I'd be more impressed if Ms Parker were a patron of an artist or an institution, but she's here to make buck. I may not care for certain expressions of "art" but this show is vulgar.

[Thomas J Williams]

09:16 AM on 08/28/2011

Sucklord? Uhm ...

[Lauren Kottwitz]

02:55 PM on 08/27/2011

Oooooh I can't wait. Love it. Watching the people I went to college with (figuratively) do their thing in such a forum is super fun. If only they had a reality show about actors...

[jessicaj221]

05:18 AM on 08/27/2011

Why are people so negative about this show? obvisously people watch it and like it. The contestants are just creating art, they're not murdering people, I don't think their is a need for harsh words in the art world, unless the art is truly offensive. Artists just want to put out inspiring work, and even if their work is not pleasing to you, you should appreciate their intentions. Personally I don't like most of the art on the show, but I'm not going to be mean about it. I just can't believe there is a reality show about painting!

[DeMedeiros Luis]

12:34 PM on 08/27/2011

I kind hated first,
but was because I couldn't make to the auditions
I oversees for an autistic young man, and the very day of the auditions
I had a previous engadgement to be with him all day.
So, I got over and I follow the "reality" I think was fun and very dramatic
There's a lot of beautiful things that come out through the whole process.
And people always will say things nasty if they don't like something
When I don't like something, I switch or turn off or go to my meditation state of mind
and try to filter what's is good. Because there's so much trash( and there's people just feeding in trash) our surroundings is so chaotic.
So called Offensive art could be an wake up call sometimes, not all the time. Artists somehow are parabolic of what should be said, even if is through something without words.

[jessicaj221]

05:30 PM on 08/27/2011

I agree that some art can be intentionally offensive to point out a moral issue or something like that, but sometimes art can just be offensive or something sinister can be disguised as "art". That's probably why you wrote "not all the time".

[iamjones]

06:57 PM on 08/29/2011

Agreed!

[iamjones]

01:46 PM on 08/26/2011

I am so glad this show is coming back. I know many will pan it, like they did season one, but come people....I, for one, think it's great to have shows about The Arts! Yes, the reality show-ness of it and the fast pace of the "challenges" are not for most artists, but let's not let that stand in the way of the value of giving art exposure.

[lightist]

12:07 PM on 08/26/2011

The Art World is like Science. It declares itself the high judge and executioner. The authorities are those that says Good Art is what the Art World calls good art.

Who are these Punishers? What have they given of their life to make life a better place to be. Pathetic "short people"playing sadist with 'hungry ghost' artists.

Oh yeah, it's effective all right if you consider raping artists of every last shred of hope in striving for inner authenticity. It takes years and years.

Get this show out of my sight and off the air.

[jrb35]

05:05 PM on 08/26/2011

No, it's nothing like science. Art is subjective, i.e, it's in the eye of the beholder. Science is objective. Science is based on fact, on peer reviewed research and on empirical evidence.

[Don Swartz]

11:44 AM on 08/26/2011

This show isn't worth any theoretical criticism besides, "B.S.."

[DeMedeiros Luis]

12:20 PM on 08/27/2011

B.S
like in
Black
Swan ???

[poorpearl]

11:19 AM on 08/26/2011

I watched the show and participated in tons of commentary on the culture vulture page and Jerry Saltz's facebook page and now for the life of me, I can't even remember who won. What does that say about the "great artist" idea? Well, we know that's a joke actually; that's the stuff of reality shows! An artist's life work is generally made over time measured in years, not "a season" (especially when the season is a TV season).
well, I'll probably watch again -- it's the only reality show I have watched; I couldn't help myself last season!

[jdevans]

11:26 AM on 08/26/2011

With all the tears in the preview, it seems the emphasis in "Work of Art" will be on melodrama, not art.

[DeMedeiros Luis]

12:25 PM on 08/27/2011

people remember just what's is relevant to them.
Abdi was the winner, he got a solo at Brooklyn Museum
I will watch too.
I think there's something about the process of everyone involved that's catch my atention

[CapnSnazSnap]

11:17 AM on 08/26/2011

But hey, who cares about any of that. Let's just run with it, because the ratings are there and most people won't even think that much about it, and at least the show will educate the public somewhat about contemporary art, and..., and...

I hope a group of artists begin making art that ridicules this show and the pretentious notion that it in any way can be capable of fostering the next generation, movement, era, etc. of great artists. Would Duchamp have won? Van Gogh? Hirst? Warhol? Martin Creed? Chris Burden? Should we even think of art as winning? Maybe I'm just a pessimist in this sense, but I often feel that art competitions are a cancer upon the world of art due to the art world smoking to many metaphorical capitalist/commercial cigarettes.

[jdevans]

11:40 AM on 08/28/2011

Van Gogh would win, but we wouldn't know it until long after he was dead.

Ross King tells in his book "The Judgement of Paris" that when the Impressionists were starting to show their work and be ridiculed, the highest-paid artist was Meissonier. Yet today few people have heard of him. To determine the "winners" in art, one must have a very long viewpoint.

[CapnSnazSnap]

11:16 AM on 08/26/2011

Now I know the art market, especially of the Western world of art, has existed for quite awhile now, and has grown to encompass art from all around the world. It has become an establishment of the art world that has helped develop this notion of "Insider Art," where one must be knowledgeable of the various works, themes, movements, trends, etc., of contemporary art to understand much of that contemporary art. This is perfectly fine, but is also a product of the system.
However, my opinion is that it is a system where originality, integrity, personal expression, or any other highly subjective aspects of making art either become impossible, or extremely difficult to maintain, and are usually overwhelmed by the competitive, economic factors of the market. This isn't to say that one cannot still create profound, stunning, beautiful, moving, and/or important works of art as a part of this system. It's just much more difficult not to get caught up in one's own hype and mythology, and risk becoming a caricature of your previous self, suddenly creating lack-luster, or unintentionally superficial, sub par work.

[CapnSnazSnap]

11:16 AM on 08/26/2011

As we move into the 21st century and realize more and more how connected we are to the rest of the world, and how that connectivity allows for a wealth of marketing information, it's not surprising that businesses are trying their best to figure out ways to sell us almost everything under the sun. However, some things lose their luster when they become too embedded in the world of commercialism.

[jdevans]

11:32 AM on 08/26/2011

With Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Thomas Kinkade commercialism outweighs the art.

[The JillyBean]

12:38 PM on 09/03/2011

you couldn't pay me to put a Kincade (ow that hut just to type it) in my home. Koons was at least humorous and I don't know anyone who doesn't connect to it in some way.

[hollace]

10:53 AM on 08/26/2011

bravo reminds me too much of that guys death last week.......to ever keep paying for it .

[holdemhigh]

10:50 AM on 08/26/2011

More Bravo junk. More Sarah Jessica Parker fluff.

[kudzumaster]

10:03 AM on 08/26/2011

This show makes me hate artists, which is unfortunate, as I am one.

[CTDFalconer]

10:34 AM on 08/26/2011

Me too and me too. But on the plus side it also reaffirms my loathing of reality shows, so it at least has that going for it.

[CapnSnazSnap]

12:32 PM on 08/26/2011

Thanks for the badge! I'll try to keep up the good work.

[Jim Janek]

10:01 AM on 08/26/2011

Actually excited for this.