San Antonio artist Joan Fabian is still reeling from her disrespectful disqualification from the Hunting Art Prize. She is now revealing circumstances that make it seem like the Hunting Oil Company is bungling their Art Prize to no end.
Before the final jury process was under way Hunting including her in the "finalists", but her work was not seen by jurors.
UPDATE: No word on who represents the "governing board" of Hunting Oil, but they did the axing of about 12 artists included as finalists.
Joan says: "
Opposite of Peace, 2007
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Before the final jury process was under way Hunting including her in the "finalists", but her work was not seen by jurors.
UPDATE: No word on who represents the "governing board" of Hunting Oil, but they did the axing of about 12 artists included as finalists.
Joan says: "
Opposite of Peace, 2007
via Glasstire Shuffleboards
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They should have just realized it is a really bad, cliche piece of work to begin with, and we wouldn't be in this situation.
Her work sucks - this is the most attention she will probably get and she's lucky that she can now martyrize herself for her "mistreatment". People should know by now to not even apply to that bullshit - they get what they've opened themselves up to.
i tend to agree with the people below that i still don't really care.... her work is....blah
It's their $50,000. But it is annoying that there was apparently an unwritten rule that said "paintings must be rectangular" that they sprung on you.
Has there been any recent developments or is this just a repost?
Also, I thought we were bashing Hunting, why the artist now?
I sense that some are bitter...but it is not a question of if you like the work. They picked it and it got disqualified due to its "political" nature. Come on artists, is this how we support one another? No wonder some get a bad rep.
Attitude! Could it be jealousy???
Oh please, don't be presumptuous and put everyone in your little artists-as-activist tent. It's fair to be critical of the work as well, something which is lacking when it comes to the incestuous nature of 'political art' especially. I find it humorous that the artist would even apply to this "big oil" run award, then as soon as she is disqualified, which I agree could have been handled better (for example, "we think it sucks now that we look at it"), she goes off on rants assailing the process. More than anything I'm sure she's just pissed that she didn't have a chance to get the 50K, but she, and others, are turning it into an altruistic crusade for the sake of all artists everywhere. Give me a break. This is the problem with political artist, they never pay attention to their own complicity in the game. Anti-War art is popular art. So let's not pretend like she's really done anything radical. I'm sure there was a clause somewhere that basically says "we can do whatever we want with your shitty work, whenever we choose to do it". It's their 50K, if you want to play the game, then you go into it knowing who runs it.
I hate to say it but I partly agree with Fearless Leader.
I think it's silly to waste time entering a sculpture that says WAR into a competition run by big Oil execs & co.
It's pretty obvious that they'd boot it.
Might as well enter a Monster into the RedBull competition.
That's just my common sense kicking in.
I am not only a political artist (of sorts) but I also work for an Oil company. I've witnessed first-hand how people perceive my work in this industry (even my painterly stuff) and I've also had the School of Visual Arts (among many others) censor the majority of my work produced during my time there. I always got shafted on opportunities.
But my point is that these are 2 completely different worlds and you need to step out of the art world before jumping to conclusions. Sure, I feel bad for what happened to the artist. Especially since they got shafted on shipping charges. However, this comes down to the responsibility of the artist. You need to read the fine print and proceed accordingly. If something goes wrong and it's not written then it's also the artist's responsibility to take legal action if necessary. I mean come on. I remember when I was in my early teens and I blew $50 trying to get my work into the "Free" KORN cover art contest. Yes, I whined but in the end I was the naive one and I now know not to participate in something so retarded.
ANyway, Please remember that I actually like the piece and would like to see it in person because I think it is pretty unique. I'm not 'bashing' the artist but I am sort of nudging that they suckitup/growup and proceed on their own and let us know of the outcome as opposed to dropping emotional rants to the community. No one likes alarmists. Trust me!! I've lost lots of friends that way.
Good luck on finding out why all this went down and on getting your money/piece back. I'll keep an eye out for what happens.
In the meantime, how about we talk about something with a bit more substance. Especially since (last I heard) most people despise Oil corporations anyway. If that's still the case then I'm curious as to why activity like this even surprises you??
Better yet, Just ignore me. I'm through here. Thanks for reading.
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