{"id":832,"date":"2009-07-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/07\/jesse_edwards_in_a_dark_suit_t\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:00:00","slug":"jesse_edwards_in_a_dark_suit_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/jesse_edwards_in_a_dark_suit_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Edwards in a dark suit talks to the NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Randy Kennedy&#8217;s NTY <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/20\/arts\/television\/20bravo.html?em\">story<\/a> about artists trying out for BRAVO&#8217;s yet unnamed reality show, he featured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesseedwards.net\/\">Jesse Edwards<\/a>, late of Seattle and now, wrote Kennedy, living &#8220;hand to mouth&#8221; in New York, the only artist quoted at length and the only one identified in a photo caption.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jesseedwardsnyt.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/jesseedwardsnyt.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"363\" \/><\/span>He looks somebody invented by Flannery O&#8217;Connor, maybe the hero in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Violent-Bear-Away-Novel\/dp\/0374505241\"><i>The Violent Bear It Away<\/i><\/a>. It&#8217;s hot in New York in July, but if an artist is going to stand out, he might as well do it in a dark suit. Behind him, pikers look as if they&#8217;re waiting for the bus.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Edwards&#8217; piece of the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About a third of the way back in the line, Jesse Edwards, a 31-year-old painter and ceramics artist from Seattle who has been living hand to mouth since moving to New York this summer, opened his portfolio to show a picture of a work that the producers might keep handy as a cautionary reminder: a ceramic television with an image of painted apples as its screen. The piece was titled &#8220;Still Life Channel.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a snoozer of a channel, the Still Life Channel,&#8221; Mr. Edwards said, but then quickly showed a picture of another ceramic television, this one with a mirror as its screen, titled &#8220;Your Personal Moment of Fame.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if he brought his bong.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jesseedwardsbong.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/jesseedwardsbong.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" \/><\/span>I hope he brought a couple of portraits.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jesseedwardsportrait.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/jesseedwardsportrait.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"506\" \/><\/span><br \/>Good luck, Jesse.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Randy Kennedy&#8217;s NTY story about artists trying out for BRAVO&#8217;s yet unnamed reality show, he featured Jesse Edwards, late of Seattle and now, wrote Kennedy, living &#8220;hand to mouth&#8221; in New York, the only artist quoted at length and the only one identified in a photo caption. He looks somebody invented by Flannery O&#8217;Connor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}