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The contestants of "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist"

Image by Andrew Eccles, Andrew Eccles/bravo 

Last night Bravo debuted its new reality show "

" which pits fourteen aspiring artists against one another to compete for both a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum and $100,000.

One of those fourteen artists is Minneapolis resident 

, and in the first hour of the series Miles emerged triumphant from the initial challenge - to create a portrait of one of the other contestants in less than thirteen hours. Mendenhall created a death portrait of colleague "Nao" (the contestants go by first names only) assembling a make-shift light studio in the process.

The fact that Mendenhall won the first round means that he can't be eliminated in the second round.

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Miles Mendenhall emerges triumphant from the first round of "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist."

Local artist wins first round of new reality show

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