Artadia Awards 2008 Chicago Finalists
Melika Bass
Songs from the Shed, 2007
Filmstill, 16mm to DVD, 22min.
Marie Krane Bergman/Cream Co.
O-Tan-V, OK, M, J (3), 2008
Acrylic and pencil on linen, 94" x 22.25"
Juan Angel Chavez
Speaker Project, 2007
Found materials, 16′ x 10′ x 25′
Jim Duignan
suitcase archive (for Michael Piazza), 2007
Suitcase, books, and memorabilia, 24" x 18" x 8"
Jeanne Dunning
Untitled, 2008
Archival inkjet print and frame, 30" x 45"
Theaster Gates
Forest for Tea, 2008
Sculpture/performance, 102" x 86" x 94"
Amanda Gutierrez
En memoria, 2007
Media performance
Michael Hernandez de Luna
Bill’s Little Black Book, 2008
Digital perforated print, 16" x 20"
Kelly Kaczynski
Olympus Manager, Scene II (detail), 2008
Mixed media, dimensions variable
David Leggett
Hollwoo, 2007
Acrylic on canvas, 10" x 11"
Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger
Cameo (conjoined silhouette), 2008
Shell and silver, 2′ x 1.25′
Kim Piotrowski
Carrot Top, 2008
Mixed media on synthetic paper 26" x 20"
Deb Sokolow
Someone tell Mayor Daley the pirates are coming (detail), 2005
Mixed media on paper, 4.5′ x 48′ (54" x 57")
Deborah Stratman
Traincrash (from the Deathworld series), 2007
C-print, 16" x 20"
Tony Tasset
Capuchin Chandelier, 2006
Painted plastic, electric, 60" x 52" x 52"
and then here’s Houston’s winners earlier this year
Artadia Awards 2008 Houston
Delilah Montoya
Jackie Chavez, 2006
Ultra chrome on Hahnemuhle, 35” x 26”
Katrina Moorhead
Draumalandid, RedGreenBluePeony, 2007
Mixed media, 30” x 60” x 60”
Floyd Newsum, Jr.
Fracture Landscape in Red, 2005
Acrylic and oil stick, 78” x 120”
Awards of $1,500
Mequitta Ahuja
Off The Edge, 2008
Oil on canvas, 96” x 72”
Dawolu Jabari Anderson
The Evangelist, 2005
Latex, acrylic, ink on paper, 72” x 48”
Katy Heinlein
Untitled, 2006
Cloth and wood, 28” x 40” x 60”
Lauren Kelley
Big Gurl
Still from stop motion animation,
duration: 6:88 min
El Franco Lee II
Lil Flip vs. TI, 2006
Acrylic on canvas, 36” x 48”
Lynne McCabe
Caledonian
Institute for the Study of Interpersonal Relationships presents, a
series of intimate exchanges hosted by Lynne McCabe, 2002
People, video, ephemera
Stephanie Toppin
Reach, 2007
Collage on paper, 12” x 10”
now, that is comparing semis from Chitown to winners from Screwston, but still…
so what do you think?
Number of applications:
Houston
210
Chicago
654
We’re sunk.
Good thing the Cubs still suck.
5 comments
Population? number of MFA programs? PhD programs in art history? # of non-profits for visual arts?
Population; Chicago: 2,836,658 Houston: 2,208,180
MFA Art Programs
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago (1/2 point, 1 year program)
Houston: University of Houston
Not: Northwestern, Texas Southern, Rice, International Academy of Design (CHI), American Academy of Art (CHI), Art Institute of Houston, Westwood College (CHI HOU), Roosevelt College (CHI), St. Thomas (HOU), DePaul (CHI), Loyola (CHI), Argosy (CHI), Northeastern Illinois, Chicago State, Houston Baptist
Art History PhDs
Chicago: University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago
Houston: Rice (1/2 point, begins Fall 2009)
Non-Profits
Chicago: 100
Houston: 100
Really, yer just not asking the right questions.
Metro area: Chicago: 9,524,673 Houston: 5,628,101
Founded in the year: Chicago: 1770 Houston: 1835
see, they’re not so big- they’re just old.
You forgot U of Illinois Chicago, an institution a number of the above finalists are associated with. Also, U of Chicago.
cool. so it’s Chicago 2 1/2, Houston 1 on that.
Chi 3 1/2, Hou 1