Tonight was the final show for the three artists left in the running for this season of Work of Art. Art advisor Simon made a trip to each of the final three artists’ studios to see what they had created a month before their final show at the Brooklyn Museum.

Young, the Asian gay dude from Chicago, whose photographic and conceptual art pieces were interesting, if not entirely jaw-dropping throughout the season, created a series of pieces based on his father’s recent death. He projected a number of photographs of his family onto the wall, and also strung up his father’s old shirts sewn with family photographs throughout the gallery.

Simon’s next visit was to Kymia, the Iranian-American artist specializing in line drawing, who surprised everyone with her frenetic artistic process and unique results. Kymia’s collection stemmed from the theme of her belief in a spiritual—not religious—afterlife, specifically focusing on the death of her father when she was a teen. Kymia creates a number of killer line-and-paint works of art. Her best work is also her simplest—the one she created in honor of her father: a simple boat with a pair of feet floating upwards shadowed in the mast.

The last finalist was Sarah J., the primarily line-and-watercolor artist who won and lost a number of challenges because of her obsession with narratives that didn’t necessary stand alone with the exposition. Sarah’s piece was probably the most conceptual of all of the gallery shows. She made a birdlike costume suit and went around New York collecting people’s fears. She then made sculptures representing a number of the fears, like a bed full of a drug user’s syringes, and a flock of paper cranes flying from a bird cage symbolizing release.

As a show, Young’s work felt too personal to really be universally relatable. We knew him, and we saw his family in the gallery, but good art—regardless of how personal it may be to the artist—allows the viewer to relate to it in surprising ways. A viewer’s reaction to Young’s show was all too predictable.

Sarah J., too, struggled with connecting her pieces together without the use of the narrative she needed to verbally explain.

In the end, we were left with Kymia, who fully deserved to take home the $100,000 prize. Unlike the other two artists, her concept did not overpower her artwork and she chose to excel in the medium she understood, rather than to experiment in new materials during a time when her work needed to be polish and complete. Her win was well deserved.