Art show: Gignac's "Nudes of Chatroulette" and Held's "Facebook Portraits"

Justin Gignac created a series of charcoal drawings titled "Nudes of Chatroulette." I'm sure you get the idea. Gignac will be showing the work at The Art of Social Media exhibition on Tuesday, June 8, as part of Internet Week New York. Also hanging will be Matt Held's Facebook Portraits. (Above left, Held's "Laura"; right, Gignac's "Rear Without Hair") "The Art of Social Media"

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kitchendon

Love the Facebook portraits. My friend Four Yip does something similar with Second Life avatars.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fouryip/sets/72157606960382741/
Felix Mitchell

3 drawings is a series now?
Anonymous

It says there will be “over a dozen” at the show. These seem like just a preview.
wunderkammer

I read the title before I was fully awake as “Shah-troo-lay” or something similarly French.

Also, I think that those two drawings make a nice diptych.
- David Pescovitz
  
  Exactly. In my draft post they were reversed and then I looked at it and realized they worked much better this way.
- Felton
  
  Well, “chat” is the French word for “cat,” so now I’m thinking of a cat playing roulette (also a French word). Hopefully not Russian roulette. ;-)
ikoino

I woke feeling hungry. Stomach was thinking of a Chaat Remoulade … growl