September 6, 2006
Chicago, get yer chauvinist asses in gear
Chicagoans and photo fans everywhere, Brian Ulrich has a mission for you:
A few months back the Saatchi Gallery in London debuted a simple and great idea in the spirit of many web phenomenon; a free website for artists of any kind to upload images of works, info and the like. Almost like a artists version of myspace, Your Gallery also contains blogs, magazines, reviews, etc.
Today the Saatchi in conjunction with the Guardian UK newspaper opens a contest of Your Gallery artists. A panel of judges—artists Marc Quinn and Cornelia Parker, critics Tim Marlow and Jonathan Jones and gallerist Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst—selected a shortlist of 30 artists from the thousands on display on the Your Gallery website.
In one of those this must be spam moments, I was emailed and told my work was chosen. Woah.
So in the spirit of many politicians, I ask my brethren suppporters to login to the Guardian website and... vote for what you like.
Also note Amy Stein's photographs also chosen. Amazing stuff. I met Amy earlier this year at the excellent Review Santa Fe and have been seeing her work everywhere since.
Let's go old school with a bit of that newfangled info-age Colbert treatment.
(No, seriously... play fair.)
"Chicago, get yer chauvinist asses in gear"
Posted by Dan at 11:43 AM
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Digg: Colbert wins first round for Hungarian bridge!
Guardian Unlimited Arts: Your Gallery Voting
No Fact Zone.Net: The latest mission for members of the Colbert Nation: 'The Stephen Colbert Bridge'
Notifbutwhen #2: Vote for Me...Your Gallery
Santa Fe Center for Photography: Review Santa Fe
Wikipedia: United States presidential election, 1960
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