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December 19, 2007 3:04 pm
“Student art” isn’t a phrase to gladden the heart of the average New York gallerygoer, but last night at Chelsea’s Sara Tecchia Roma New York, the crowds were out for “And Who Are You?,” a show of work by artists featured on Saatchi’s Stuart pages. Short for “student art,” Stuart has emerged as the Facebook of the art world. It’s also proven ripe pickings for exhibit curator/Saatchi Online correspondent (and Style.com contributor) Ana Finel Honigman. Fittingly, for a show focused on artists just starting the complicated negotiation between commercial success and creative integrity, Finel Honigman chose “value” as her theme. Variations ranged from Fame Theory’s digital stock ticker, which uses an algorithm to calculate the relationship between the number of parties an artist goes to and the amount of money for which his work sells, to Canadian Joshua Powell’s fake commercial for organic, fair-trade cocaine, which was commissioned especially for the exhibit. “Josh had never been in an art show before, and he wasn’t sure the video stuff he was doing qualified as art, per se,” Finel Honigman recalled as Powell stood by, waiting for the cavalry to make its move to the Terence Koh-organized after-party. “But the idea was on point, so I was like, well, I don’t know if it’s art, either. But it’s funny.”
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