ArtStar Season 1

Posted on: Thursday, June 1st, 2006
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ARTSTAR is a GALLERY HD original series that follows eight artists ranging in age from 21 to 67 as they vie to impress Jeffrey Deitch, a gallerist known world-wide for his ability to spot up-and-coming talent. The ARTSTAR finalists, selected from an open call that attracted over 400 hopefuls, include a video artist, a photographer, an FIT undergraduate student, a retired social worker-turned-sculptor, an animator, a performance/Internet artist, an action stylist/puppeteer, and a painter. Over the course of the show, they will meet established artists and critics including Jeff Koons, Ryan McGuinness, Jon Kessler, Kehinde Wiley, and Barbara Pollack, and work on a series of collaborative projects. The goal at the outset of the program is to identify an artist for a solo show at Deitch’s trend-setting SoHo gallery. But, as the series unfolds, the realities of the art world subvert the “rules” of television and reveal surprising stories about creativity and growth.

During June 2006, episodes of ARTSTAR was on view at the Museum of the Moving Image in T.V. Lounge (1988), an installation by artist Jim Iserman that is part of the core exhibition Behind the Screen. The Museum has been featuring programming from VOOM HD Networks in T.V. Lounge since August 2005.

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ArtStar PROMO» Contestant Bio: Buki, Video Artist
ArtStar PROMO» Contestant Bio: Travis, Conceptual Artist
ArtStar PROMO» Contestant Bio: Bryan, Performance Artist
ArtStar PROMO» Contestant Bio: Jennifer, Ann Curry Stalker
ArtStar PROMO» Contestant Bio: Fi, Multimedia-Installation-Performance Artist
ArtStar PROMO» Contestant Bio: James, Painter

I’ll Try Anything Once PROMO» Demolition Derby
I’ll Try Anything Once PROMO» Rodeo Clown
I’ll Try Anything Once PROMO» Extreme Animal Remover
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I’ll Try Anything Once PROMO» Women’s Professional Football

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ArtStar Season 2
Gallery HD Channel – Voom Networks, Rainbow Media
VOOM HD Networks, Rainbow Media

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03.25.05 » New York Times: Reality (on TV) Reaches Art World
03.04.05 » Artforum: The Dye Is Cast
Wikipedia: ArtStar

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• “‘Artstar’ on Gallery HD: The Art World Tries Realism (the TV Kind)”, The New York Times, May 28, 2006
• “Art world Idol”, TimeOut New York, May 11, 2006
• “Stroke of genius? Artists to mix it up on reality TV”, Chicago Tribune
• “Reality Bites”, Artforum, May 17, 2006
• “His ‘Artstar’ is Rising”, The Post-Standard, June 1, 2006
• “He aims to win ‘ArtStar’ by playing to the gallery”, New York Daily News, June 1, 2006
• “Reality Show Artstar to begin on the Dish Network”, Art Daily
• “Future, Unscripted Fall pilots: Real deal, or no deal?”, Village Voice, May 9, 2006
• “Reality (on TV) Reaches Art World”, The New York Times, March 2, 2005
• “The Dye is Cast”, Artforum, March 4, 2005
• “Bored, Naked, Desperate: What Happens When Artists Go on Reality TV”, Slate, June 16, 2006
• “You’re Either In or You’re Out”, “Paper Magazine,” June 2006