The 'Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?' Art Challenge
One cold night in January 35 artists from around the South Bay gathered at the historic La Venta Inn in Palos Verdes, California to take part in a unique challenge, to create a work of art based on a randomly selected title. The challenge was the brainchild of Bondo Wyszpolski – arts writer for Easy Reader and Peninsula Magazine.
Bondo Wyszpolski –
“I wanted to see various local artists try their hand at something different, something they might not ordinarily do, and the title each artist received would, I hoped, push them along in that direction. A piece might be “successful” if somebody seeing it said: “Oh! I didn’t know you did work like this” – referring to subject matter or style. I’m reminded of a quote by Karl Ove Knausgaard: “Art lives by transgressing boundaries, by going beyond what everyone has agreed to see and think.” Would our selection of artists rise to the challenge and astonish us?”
