Doreen Bolger, Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, recaps the Sondheim Prize Semifinalists exhibition for her blog on charmcitycurrent.com.

Over at Flashpoint Gallery, Jeffry Cudlin suckered me into participating in his show BY REQUEST. 

BY REQUEST is a subversive, humorous, and celebrity-obsessed show about the Washington, D.C. art world.

For the show, seven D.C. power players--collectors, curators, and critics--were asked to fill out surveys to determine their ideal works of art. These surveys were turned over to seven different D.C. artists who pledged to deliver custom pieces.

There was one small catch: The show's ringmaster, Jeffry Cudlin, insisted that he be depicted in every work of art, thereby transforming himself into the show's biggest celebrity. The resulting outlandish images feature cross-dressing, a severed pig's head, and a pair of fake latex breasts, courtesy of an FX makeup artist.

My role was to create work designed for Philippa Hughes, founder of The Pink Line Project. Knowing that Philippa enjoys collecting artists more than art, I created a fictional street artist named TWEE, who is well on his way to fame. My cohorts in this experiment included Max Cook, Tracy Clayton, Josh Yospyn and Jeffry Cudlin(as TWEE).

Novelty has come and gone, and my time in Charleston, SC was an amazing experience.