But the artists we function in this issue as icons have left their mark, to be sure. Due to the tight time frame for every week’s fee, the artists need to divide their time between finishing the work and installing it, which for some means showing a bit that’s half-finished. For me, this conjures elements of “wet paint” deals, the place a work by today’s hottest artist is so fresh from the studio the paint continues to be drying. Over the previous couple of decades, this has positioned an inordinate quantity of pressure on emerging artists to seek out monetary success proper initially of their careers, leading to a crash in their market or a profession that isn’t sustainable. In the context of The Exhibit, this is only amplified, as the artists not solely have to show works that aren’t absolutely realized but in addition defend them to the judges.…