In Randy Kennedy’s NTY story about artists trying out for BRAVO’s yet unnamed reality show, he featured Jesse Edwards, late of Seattle and now, wrote Kennedy, living “hand to mouth” 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’Connor, maybe the hero in The Violent Bear It Away. It’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’re waiting for the bus.
Here’s Edwards’ piece of the story:
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 “Still Life Channel.”
“It’s a snoozer of a channel, the Still Life Channel,” Mr. Edwards said, but then quickly showed a picture of another ceramic television, this one with a mirror as its screen, titled “Your Personal Moment of Fame.”
I wonder if he brought his bong.
I hope he brought a couple of portraits.
Good luck, Jesse.
I’d love to see Jessie on TV doing his thing. He might give that other famous reality TV Jessie (MTV Real World, back in the day) a run for his money as Most Famous Jessie on TV.