In Work of Art's fifth episode of the second season, Bravo had its remaining group of eight artists hit the streets for a guerrilla-warfare-style street-art battle. Arriving in DUMBO underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, contestants were told to choose from a selection of unmarked black spray cans, making it a mystery which can held what color. Of course, the spray paint ended up all over hostess China Chow. But ARTINFO would have been disappointed if it didn’t. Once a spray paint can appears on stage, raucousness must ensue, according to Aristotle's "Poetics."

Chow told the artists to aim their cans at her white dress, which promptly wasn't so white anymore. The artists who had chosen matching cans of paint were paired together to create murals on the DUMBO walls behind them. After spraying a pair of nipples onto Chow's dress,  the Sucklord was paired with Sarah, a fellow contestant whom Sucklord has in the past referred to as a "cutie with a bootie." Dusty was paired with Young Sun, Lola with Michelle, and (the other) Sara with Kymia.

The teams had to create their murals at night, from 6 p.m. till the early a.m., a twist that fit the challenge's graffiti aesthetic. Unlike many amateur muralists, however, Bravo's artists had the help of scaffolding and floodlights for their projects.

What came out of the teams's work were a set of three tour-de-force murals (in this reporter's humble opinion) and one really bad one. Sucklord and Sarah's "Super Big Art Project" was a geometric abstraction that turned into a maze complete with rat and cheese; the artists added surface texture with raised dowels. The mural's snakey silhouette jived with the façade of the building it was painted on. Sara and Kymia's "Reroot" is a meditation on loneliness and the difficulty of finding a home, with a figure that looks influenced by iconic Brazilian street artist Blu's work dragging an uprooted anthropomorphized tree by a lasso.

Young Sun and Dusty pulled off a highly successful, figurative mural with a positive social message and a measure of public interactivity. Two heads in profile, one of each artist, sat "I recently lost my father, how does it feel to become a parent?" and "I recently became a father, how does it feel to lose a parent?" — the statements reflected the two artists's personal lives. In the middle was written "It changes you," surrounded by thought bubbles in which viewers could write their own responses to the questions. Unfortunately, Lola and Michele didn't fair nearly so well, with a messy, voyeuristic peek into faux windows with "The New Neighbors Seem Nice (I Wonder When They'll Invite Us Over)." The team attempted to sabotage the contest by handing out stickers to viewers and asking them to stick them on other artists's murals — just like real street artists. But this was no Banksy.

Young Sun and Dusty were deemed the winners by the judges, and team Sucklord and Sarah and team Lola and Michelle went into the sudden-death round. We're not sure why the judges disliked Sucklord's work so much, since it showed at least some inkling of maturity and a move away from his childish action figures (which the show's honchos have told him to attempt in the past), but they said they had expected something more energetic and fun. Lola and Michelle, no argument there. Unfortunately, it was Sucklord's time to go after he honorably stuck up for his own participation in the losing mural.

We will certainly miss the Sucklord and his increasingly sleazeball antics with his female cast members. Still, every great artist needs something to be remembered for — maybe Suck's trademark will be his creepy demeanor, plus his creepy art. ARTINFO is positive that the Sucklord, like Gandalf, will rise again.