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News & ArtsTuesday, September 30, 2008
Visual Art And the Betty Bowen Winner Is...
Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:50 PM
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 shirt itself, so that this is a photograph of a folded shirt with a drawing of a folded shirt on it.
As for Greenwood and Elliott, they won $2,500 each in secondary awards. (More Elliott here.)
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