Slog - Comments on And the Betty Bowen Winner Is... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/and_the_betty_bowen_winner_is Isaac Layman! Here he is in Middleman, twisting the John Baldessari trick of the artist telling you what to look at: Layman is a totally deserving artist. From the list of finalists the committee was considering—Layman, Wynne Greenwood, Eric Elliott, Alexis Pike, and Nicholas Nyland—I'd have chosen Greenwood myself (um), but Layman's art can also be a sincere sensation. This Box Spring and Apple Tree video, for instance, was as dreamy as a young Balzac hero. This is one of my favorite Laymans. The shadow around the shirt is real but the rest of the marks are drawn on the... Copyright 2008 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:50:35 -0800 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:15:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by max solomon at first i thought that read Betty BoweRS.

which would be hilarious.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/and_the_betty_bowen_winner_is#c1154379 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/and_the_betty_bowen_winner_is#c1154379 Visual Art Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:00:51 -0800 Comment by HuskyQuaker or Petty Blowin'...

]]> HuskyQuaker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/and_the_betty_bowen_winner_is#c1154567 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/and_the_betty_bowen_winner_is#c1154567 Visual Art Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:50:13 -0800 Comment by jameyb not art.

]]> jameyb http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/and_the_betty_bowen_winner_is#c1154603 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/and_the_betty_bowen_winner_is#c1154603 Visual Art Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:25:35 -0800 Comment by joey jameyb -- better let all those collectors who have bought issac's "stuff" that it's not art. they've apparently been duped.

]]> joey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/and_the_betty_bowen_winner_is#c1154741 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/and_the_betty_bowen_winner_is#c1154741 Visual Art Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:12:28 -0800 Comment by Lazlso Who were the committee members this year?

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