April 2009 Archives

ny.08.#14 by Jennifer Sanchez

20x200 and Jennifer Sanchez are profiled in Traditional Home's online feature, access: art. Click on over to see, and to get inspired to find a 20x200 print or two to add to your home, traditional or not. Browse our archives here.

IBM 360 Model 30 Tape Drives 1965 by Mark Richards

Apple 1 by Mark Richards

Wednesday Edition: Mark Richards

Wednesday greetings, collectors. The rattling jackhammers that commenced around 7 a.m. have me somewhat crankier about industriousness this morning. Jangled nerves aside, I'm looking forward to today, which is jam-packed with geekery of the best kind. We'll kick things off with today's nerdtastic editions from Mark Richards and then I'm going to focus on prep for tonight's Ignite SF event. On with show!

Apple 1 and IBM 360 Model 30 Tape Drives 1965 are the prefect editions to close out this week with. Not only do they pair nicely with yesterday's editions from Christine Berrie, they're also very well-suited for the crowd I'm running with this week. As of today, Web 2.0 Expo is officially in full swing, and if I manage to pique the curiosity of the crowd during my presentation at Ignite tonight, they're likely to be pleased to discover Mark's photographs when then land on our homepage.

But wait, there's more than geeky goodness afoot here! There's also a close connection with our friends at Chronicle Books, hosts of this coming Monday's 20x200 Collectors Confab. Working with the with the excellent Alan Rapp, who's similarly obsessed with circuitry, Mark created a book full of these images entitled Core Memory. Gorgeously produced, as one knows to expect when they see CB's imprimatur on a volume's spine, it's an amazing visual survey of vintage computers.

Choosing just two was nearly impossible, so I went the Mac vs. PC route. It's not just any Mac mind you — it's an Apple I, handmade by The Woz's himself and debuting on this very day, back in 1976. (Some of you less geeky couch-surfer types might be more familiar with his recent fancy footwork.) His plywood mounted circuitry looks awfully nimble when compared with the bulky IBM 360 Mainframe, which debuted in 1969. We've come a long way, baby.

As for me, I've got a long way to go! I need to run through my slides for tonight, get my thoughts together for Friday's Corralling the Crowdsourced Community panel and check-in on how the party planning's coming along for Monday's Confab @ Chronicle.

How about a parting gift before I go? Like I said, Chronicle produces some fine looking books. They also produce all kinds of gorgeously designed stationery and have loads of stuff for kids. Our Confab attendees will get to ogle their wares in person on Monday. For those of you who can't attend, here's an incentive to get some CB books on your own shelves:

Fill up your cart at www.chroniclebooks.com and enter code 20x200 when you checkout for 30% off + free shipping.

So, you get shopping and I'll get going, but fear not! I won't be gone for long. We've got a special Monday edition on tap from another great Chronicle artist, which means you'll be hearing from me once more before we get that party started.

Exhibition flyer by Jason Polan

The tireless Jason Polan is in a group show opening in LA tomorrow. If I could, I'd be on my way to the airport to be there. Luckily, many of you faithful 20x200 fans are inhabitants of California, so will be able to step out tomorrow and see I'm so Excited to be Talking to You! at Denizen Design Gallery. The opening is from 6-9pm and will run through May 16th.

Other artists in the show include Alejandro Artigas, Jim Bauer, Sarah Beadle, Heather Bennett, Kristin Calabrese, Peter Contigliozzi, Sian Foulkes, Patrick Lakey, Tim Laun, Robert Levine, Christy McCaffrey, Tommy McCaffrey, Bruce Nauman, Pacific Dissent Company, Tony Payne, Ben Pruskin, Aaron Rose, Casey Ruble, Tom Sachs, Jonathan Schute, Joe Sola, Allyson Spellacy, George Stoll, Lynn Sullivan, and Andre Vipolis.

Denizen Design Gallery
8600 Venice Blvd., LA CA
Culver City Arts District

Photograph by Don Hamerman

Hooray for 20x200 all star Don Hamerman! One of his photographs is on the cover of a new baseball chronicle, The Complete Game by former NY Mets pitcher Ron Darling. Hamerman is quick to credit 20x200 for this success, as his work was discovered by a 20x200 collector who just happens to be a cover designer at Knopf/Random House.

We've offered you four editions by Don, and all have very limited quantities left:
Hemi, Mossball, Stricken, and Untitled (Elephant)

P.S.
Keep your eyes out for a new 20x200 edition by Don very soon!

Image of Jen Bekman by Zach Klein

The one and only Jen Bekman is in California for a short interlude, and immediately she's been interviewed by 7x7, a San Franciscocentric culture magazine. Read the interview here, and if you happen to be in San Francisco this very evening, go out and meet Jen and the 20x200 crew at Chronicle Books 680 Second St. at the Collectors Confab!

Each week Design*Sponge indulges our collective desire for voyeurism by posting a sneak-peak into the homes of talented designer folk. Most recently they featured Kate Bingaman-Burt a 20x200 darling and Summer 2006 Hot Shot. Unsurprisingly, Kate's space, which she shares with husband Clifton Burt, also a 20x200 artist, is lovingly filled with colorful art, as every happy home should be. You could say Kate and Clifton personify our 20x200 motto: LIVE WITH ART, IT'S GOOD FOR YOU. Click here to see more.

think-make-think by Clifton Burt is available in our large edition size, I Bought All of These and Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Carts #1 by Kate Bingaman-Burt are available in limited quantities.

Live With Art by Little Jacket

Hello San Francisco collectors! Tonight is the night! Jen Bekman and the 20x200 team are looking forward to meeting Bay Area collectors tonight, Monday April 6th, from 6-8pm. We'll be serving up some wine along with a few surprises! We're looking forward to seeing you soon!

Space is limited, so please be sure to RSVP — rsvp AT 20x200 DOT com.

Who: Bay Area Collectors & Team 20x200
What: Collectors Confab
When: Monday, April 6th, from 6-8 p.m
Where: Chronicle Books | 680 Second Street, San Francisco, CA

Stuart Klipper

Icebreaker, Emperor penguin, Southern O., Antarctica by Stuart Klipper

Swell, Southern Ocean - near 50° S, Antarctica by Stuart Klipper


Greetings, collectors! Welcome to our special Monday edition, released in honor of tonight's Collectors Confab hosted by the fine folks of Chronicle Books. 99.9% of Team 20x200 is here in SF for the Confab and a whole bunch of artists will be joining us tonight too. More details on that after a brief introduction of today's editions.

Icebreaker, Emperor penguin, Southern O., Antarctica and Swell, Southern Ocean - near 50° S, Antarctica are by Antarctic explorer Stuart Klipper. Stuart's made six expeditions to Antarctica, creating a stunning body of panoramic images* of its surfaces which he describes as "more in common with the alien surfaces of other planets and moons" than it does with other continents on our planet.

I was introduced to Stuart's work by his Minneapolis friend and neighbor, Beth Dow, who recommended that we collaborate on editions with him. It turns out that our friends at Chronicle Books recently published a gorgeous book of his photos, The Antarctic: From the Circle to The Pole, making today a fitting day for his 20x200 debut. You can pick up a copy tonight at the Confab, or buy one online at www.chroniclebooks.com. Wherever you do it, don't forget to invoke your special 20x200 Collectors discount! Enter code 20x200 at checkout on their site for 30% off and free shipping. (If you come to the party tonight, you'll get the discount on any purchases you make there too.)

Speaking of that party — I have to go get ready for it! Please join me, the 20x200 crew, including edition-makers Jane Mount and Youngna Park. Tons of artists are coming too: Mark Richards will be there, so you can snap up a copy of his book and have him sign it then and there. Other artists who have rsvp'd include: Clifton Burt, Noah Kalina, Jessica Snow and Mark Ulriksen. Local friends and heroes from Electric Works, SFMOMA, Rare Device, 7x7 and Wired are slated to attend too. And speaking of 7x7, check out the lovely interview they did with me last week: 20x200's Jen Bekman on Collecting Without Breaking the Bank.

If you're in SF, or anywhere near it, I hope to see you later at the Collectors Confab. If not tonight, look for me tomorrow — I'll be back then with an edition that I'm most excited that we've made, one which will benefit Creative Commons.

*Because panoramic images are long and narrow, these prints have very generous horizontal borders. Each edition's page includes a thumbnail that shows the image's size on the page. You can also click on the "View Large" link on each editions' page to see a bigger version. Please be sure to have a look at those before making your purchases!

Kishódos #1, 17/3/2009 13:34 by Bert Teunissen

Jó napot collectors! Dutch photographer Bert Teunissen has recently returned from Hungary to add 41 new images to his ever expanding index of Europeans in their domiciles. Thanks to a grant from Blue Earth Alliance in Seattle, Bert will be traveling to Ukraine, Russia and Moldavia to make more images for the project that Bert describes thusly:

For the past 12 years I've been driving around Europe, building up an archive of houses whose interiors have not changed for decades. It is a project about light, and the era in which natural daylight dictated the architecture of a place, how it was used, and where you'd find the furniture. And, of course, I need the owners in the picture, because they are the people who keep it the way it is.

Watch the series unfold here.

Bert's 20x200 edition prints Saugnac et Muret #1, 27/12/2005 11:27 and LA ALBERCA #6 1/3/2005 12:56 are available in our large edition size.

Get Excited And Make Things by Matt Jones

Greetings, collectors! I am post-party and pre-airport, so I'm going to keep this last dispatch from the West Coast pithy. That's fine though, since today's edition from super-genius designer Matt Jones speaks for itself. (He really is a super genius! Ask anyone who knows him.)

Matt's edition, Get Excited and Make Things is certainly not the only response to the iconic Keep Calm and Carry On poster, but in my opinion it is the very best one. It's a sentiment I agree with wholeheartedly, and a perspective that I exhort you all to adopt as your mantra of our new era.

It's easier than ever to submerge oneself in gloom, doom and hand-wringing, but resourcefulness, innovation and opportunity abound. I've never seen much point in wallowing in the suckitude, I mean rrrreally: enough already! What are you going to DO about it? Because you can do something, and more importantly: you should.

Matt's print pithily embodies the attitude I aspire to live by and look for in others. I look forward to living with his bold reminder, and hope you will too. Should you need further encouragement to possess such inspiration, consider this: the profits from this edition will benefit Creative Commons, an organization most worthy of your support.

Creative Commons provides copyright licenses and other legal tools that expand the range of creative works available for others to legally share and build upon. "All Rights Reserved" is replaced by "Some Rights Reserved;" the creator has the freedom to determine what others can share, remix, or reuse. You can read more about them here and also here.

I have lots of stuff to tell you about, but no time to do it — the party report will have to wait till tomorrow's dispatch. For now, I'm going to tend to my packing and round up the amazing 20x200 crew that made the party — and so much more — possible. We've got a flight to catch!

Thread 2 by Don Hamerman

Rawlings by Don Hamerman

Greetings from the East, my collector friends! It's good to be back home, although it's apparently going to take me some time to readjust to my atmosphere — I woke up with a start in the wee hours of the morning and had no idea where I was. You'd think that Ollie's foot-warming presence would've snapped me into place, but no! It took me longer than it should've to get my bearings, and with the balance of the week being jam-packed, I have to get with the program. I'm in it for the long haul today, for certain.

Once I hit today's new editions from Don Hamerman out into the inter-ether, I'm off to check in on the installation of Beth Dow's new exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery, Ruins. I know I'm always excited about something, but I am seriously over-the-top thrilled about this work. It's gorgeous and it's ground-breaking and I'm very proud to be showing it. The exhibition opens tomorrow night, plus we're hosting an Artist with Beth on Saturday afternoon. Once I've feasted my eyes, I'm off to do a talk at SVA. I'm counting on my West Coast frame-of-time to keep me bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this evening when I meet the students in their MFA Photography program. But first: today's pitch!

Thread 2 and Rawlings are the latest additions to Don's enormously popular Found Baseballs editions here on 20x200. He's previously hit it out of the park with Hemi, Mossball, Stricken and Untitled (Elephant), and with baseball season going into full swing, today's editions are pitch-perfect.

We're not a sporty lot at 20x200HQ, but it's been hard to ignore the ambient sports buzz as of late. March Madness was everywhere, even if we barely paid it any mind, and now that that's settled, suddenly the chatter in airports and elsewhere is all about baseball.

Sure, what got the season on my radar was bacon-wrapped... something — anything bacon-wrapped is sure to catch my attention, actually — but apparently there's more to it than that. I might not make it to the Seventh Inning Stretch, but this season marks the arrival of lots of things that have my architectural and foodie interests piqued. I left it to the intrepid Youngna Park to track down some details:

As Jen mentioned, we're more likely to have our ears and eyes attuned to food and architecture than baseball itself, but with the regular season officially underway at the city's two new stadiums, there's a lot to catch our attention. First, both stadiums, for our rival teams — the Yankees and Mets, of course — were built by Populous (formerly HOK), with architectural personalities that speak to each team's history.

Players are excited about the stadium's cold therapy pool, sauna, and deluxe food, which includes lobster rolls, BBQ, Shake Shack burgers and a milkshake stand. Yankee Stadium ain't too shabby in the edibles department either, with a gourmet carving station and Cuban sandwiches. So, whether you head to the outer boroughs for baseball, snacking, or to admire grass patterns in outfield, Citi Field and Yankee Stadium, born anew, have a lot to gape over.

And with that, this week's editions are done! All that food talk's made me want to nom nom nom, so I'm going to grab a bite to eat and go gape at some art. I'll be back next week with new editions and a belated recap of our wonderful SF Collectors Confab.

Pink Matterhorn by Megan Whitmarsh

20x200 artist Megan Whitmarsh stitches a yeti who lives in a capricious world in her new book, Yeti Logic. Just thinking about yeti makes me smile, because I think about other impossible humanoid creatures like Bigfoot, and then I recall this episode of In Search of ...

One good thing always leads to another.

Yeti Logic can be found at Spoonbill & Sugartown, or online here.

Megan has two 20x200 edition prints available for you:
Trash Mountain
Color Work Station

Trojan Horse by Beth Dow

This Saturday, April 11th, join us for the second Munchkins + Mimosas, from 12pm-2pm. Beth Dow will be on hand to talk about her Ruins series and demystify the platinum-palladium printing process.

Space is limited so please RSVP to info@jenbekman.com.

Ruins
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
NYC

Artist Talk: Saturday, April 11, from 12-2pm
On View: April 9 - May 16

Sara and Youngna!
Image by Steve Rhodes

Chronicle CEO, Nion McEvoy introduces Jen
Image by Steve Rhodes

The second Collectors Confab, held at at Chronicle Books, went off swimmingly! The soiree for 20x200 and our esteemed East Coast admirers saw friends old and new smile, sip and celebrate art for all.

Chronicle Books was a gracious host, and their generosity continues through the end of the month--use promo code 20x200 to receive 30% off + free shipping on online book purchases!

7x7, the savvy San Francisco culture magazine printed a little review of the evening here. Hopefully you didn't miss their interview with Ms. Jen last week, but if you did, read it here.

Undeniably Jen and team 20x200 are beloved on both coasts! Hopefully you've been able to attend one of our confabs, but if not, fear not! We'll surely have another for you to attend soon. Until then, have a look at some images from the evenings here and here. Surely that will get you excited to browse our affordable archives.

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Don't forget to follow us on Twitter where we keep you up to date on confabs and everything else wonderful in the 20x200 universe!

Powerhouse Gym, 2008 by Brian Ulrich

Hello and happy Friday, collectors! Congratulations are in tall order for photographer Brian Ulrich who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship this week! Bravo, Brian!

I'll take this opportunity to remind you that Brian has a photo essay, Stores That Are No More, on TIME magazine's website, and that he is also in a group show, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, at the Yale School of Architecture which will remain on view through May 10th.

ny.09.#07 by Jennifer Sánchez

Hello collectors! 20x200 darling Jennifer Sánchez has new paintings on her website for you to lay eyes on. After having a long look, I'm imagining a party using her color palate as inspiration. I'll serve strawberry tarts with chiffon, wasabi macarons, candied orange mini souffles and a lemon layer cake with blueberries. We'll drink Dubonnet with lemonade under garlands of candy and listen to Esquivel. I hope you can come.

Check Sánchez's blog to see her favorite artists and inspiration behind her paintings: Jennifer Sánchez: news and stuff that inspires my paintings

Not too long ago I spoke with the bubbly Miss S, and you can read (or re-read) the interview here.

Just can't get enough? There's more:
Jennifer's website
Jennifer's 20x200 edition prints:
ny.07.#32
ny.07.#34
ny.07.#20
Jennifer's AAA edition

Friends, collectors, compatriots, lend me your ears, for I have some good news to impart! 20x200 has been nominated for the 13th Annual Webby Awards in the Art category.

There are only five nominees in this category, so we need your help to keep us where the air is rarefied. Vote for us to win the Webby People's Voice Award! Voting runs from April 14th to April 30th, so please take a second to show us some love. We've come this far because of an inspired equation of (limited editions × low prices) + the internet, which includes, of course, YOU. So please cast your ballot for to us win this Webby together, vote now!

iSketch140 by Jorge Colombo

iSketch084 by Jorge Colombo

iSketch104 by Jorge Colombo

iSketch098 by Jorge Colombo

A Collection of iPhone Sketches by Jorge Colombo

Tuesday greetings, my friends! I'm feeling awfully upbeat today, in spite of Old Man Winter's stubborn persistence. We got word this morning that we've been nominated for a Webby Award — in the Art category — and I'm just tickled pink. As many of you are aware, I'm a web nerd from way back, and have been tracking the Webbys since their inception. I'm thrilled that we're nominated, and today's editions from the very talented and most charming Jorge Colombo are a perfect example of why I feel 20x200 is the site that will have the honor of adding one of these to its mantle.

iSketch140, iSketch084, iSketch104 and iSketch098 are four of my favorite pieces from Jorge's ingenious and delightful iPhone Sketches series. I've had the pleasure of chatting with Jorge at cocktail parties and openings on many different occasions over the years, but it was via the venerable Design Observer that I was tipped off to Jorge's most recent and widely lauded project. Jorge and I supplement cocktail party chatter with a steady stream of Facebook banter, so I contacted him there immediately after perusing the sketches to see if he'd be interested in doing editions with us. Which brings us all here together today.

Jorge makes his sketches using the most modern of media. As he writes in his statement, they're "drawn on location using an iPhone application called Brushes. No photo references, no tablets, no brushes to wash: just my finger on the tiny touch-screen. Don't even need a proper light: the drawing itself glows in a dark corner." Translated from screen to print, these little masterpieces are really wonderful. I was amazed and giddy for days with the proofs when they were delivered to me during my recent San Francisco sojourn. I kept them laid out on my countertop for the duration of my visit, lovely to behold and a persistent reminder of my beloved hometown.

As I said to Ms. Sara Distin over IM earlier today, Jorge's sketches remind me of a favorite book from my childhood, Snowy Day. Sara pointed out — and I agree — that Jorge's pieces have a "really ethereal-much-more-grown-up kind of glow about them" but what they have in common for me is the strong pull of how my memory of New York feels. As the city of Snowy Day maps to the city of my childhood, Jorge's sketches of Grand Central and the exterior of Katz's are the New York that gets drawn in my mind as I move through it. It's their broad strokes and imprecise shining lights, the sense that everything is moving — the traffic and the people, each one of us contributing to the shimmering shuffle of the city's pulse.

One of the things that I love about traveling is that the feeling of being a tourist remains with me for quite a while after returning home to New York. Accustomed to being disoriented, I don't quite snap back into habit right away; instead, I find myself looking up and around, scanning the skyline and plotting my paths more deliberately. It always makes me fall in love with the city a little more.

This most recent return marked the same pattern. On my first evening home, I was heading south, cutting through Cooper Square and looked up to see the Empire State Building aglow, shining in the earliest-of-evening light. Noticing it, it became fixed in my memory and I think it'll stay there for a while, reminding me of feeling at home and in love with where home is. The image dwelling there is no picture-perfect snapshot; there's no way I could explain it to you or draw it myself, I can tell you with absolute certainty that it looks a lot like one of Jorge's sketches.

BAMart's Silent Auction will open at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 29th with both a live exhibition and in-person + online bidding. This is your opportunity to support one of Brooklyn's oldest and most notable arts institutions — BAM — and acquire great original works of art. After the opening, you'll be able to view and bid on works, in person, at BAM, seven days a week. If you're not in NYC, you can start bidding with everyone else on the 29th online, bidding is open 24 hours a day! The auction will close, online and in-person, on May 11th, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.

Also be sure to save the date for the Silent Auction Cocktail Reception with special guests Andrew Andrew on Saturday, May 9, from 5-7 PM at BAM.

But first, visit Andrew Andrew for easy as 1, 2, 3 bidding instructions. Then start browsing + bookmarking the works you want! We're especially excited to see so many Jen Bekman Gallery and 20x200 artists participating. Among the works available, you'll find:

Untitled #8, 2008 by Kent Rogowski

2nd Class Girls, "St. Petersburg, Russia", 2007 by Rachel Papo

Red Hook Revere Sugar Refinery Ruins (Ikea Flattening and Flatpacking Construction, Our Biggest Idea is the Smallest Price), 2009 by Greg Lindquist

Optical, 2008 by Carrie Marill

TIME 2009 by Mickey Smith

Plus, work from many, many other artists we love, including Maira Kalman, Alex Katz, Adia Millett, and Leah Raintree. We want!

Image from Workbook by Ann Tarantino and Kate McGraw

DC denizens, listen up!

Thursday, April 15th, 20x200 artist Ann Tarantino will be participating in a panel discussion at Flashpoint, in conjunction with her show, Workbook, with her collaborator Kate McGraw.

Kate McGraw and Ann Tarantino collaborate on planned and improvised drawings created directly on the walls of the gallery. The artists draw using their own signature styles while also responding and referring to one another’s mark-making. The artists film the process and the resulting video will become a part of the art, rather than just documentation of the process.

Workbook is a video that documents the ten days artists Kate McGraw and Ann Tarantino will spend creating a mammoth work stretching across the walls of the Gallery at Flashpoint. The installation will be on view beginning March 19, 2009 and the film will be projected at the exhibition entrance beginning March 28, 2009.

Financial support for the production of the video will be provided by the sale of prints hand-marked by the artists. Each 7½" x 7½" print will be hand-marked and embellished by Kate and Ann and hand-stamped with a signature seal created by the artists.

By purchasing unique prints, buyers have an opportunity to become art patrons who foster the careers of emerging artists. All patrons will be invited to a special launch event on March 28, 2009 at the Gallery at Flashpoint.

Panel Discussion: Collecting Drawing
Thursday, April 16, 12:30 – 2 p.m.
A panel discussion on collecting, coveting and the connoisseurship of drawing with Kate McGraw, Ann Tarantino and others. Moderated by Philippa Hughes, The Pink Line Project.
RSVP Essential: info@thepinklineproject.com

Images from the collaboration in progress can be viewed here on Kate's site.

Read a 20x200 interview with Ann here.

Ann's 20x200 prints: Breath Portrait (favorite colors), Flying Colors, and Far and Wide have limited quantities available.

Ironwood at Dusk by Michael Lundgren

Yuha Basin by Michael Lundgren

Wednesday Edition: Michael Lundgren to Benefit Radius Books

Proceeds for Ironwood at Dusk will directly benefit Radius Books, the publishers of Michael's monograph Transfigurations.

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Wednesday greetings, collectors! I'm a little tongue-tied and nervous about introducing today's editions: first and foremost because I am so in love with the photographs themselves in all their mysterious gorgeousness and also because of the admiration, respect and affection I have for the photographer who made them, the very talented, devoted and brilliant Michael Lundgren. My encounters with Michael's work — first via his recent exhibition at Clamp Art and continually since then via his stunning monograph published by Radius Books, which is well-thumbed and kept handy in my home — have been the source of a lot of meaningful interactions. I think about it a lot, and love having it close at hand.

Yuha Basin and Ironwood at Dusk are not the easiest images to convey via the .jpg format, but I just had to roll the dice and hope that you, dear collectors, will trust me when I say that they are totally, breathtakingly stunning in person. When I saw Michael's show at Clamp Art back in November, the photo that took my breath away was the one I nearly missed to start with — a photo which at first glance seemed uniformly black, its surface and detail revealed to me as my eyes adjusted. I knew then and there that this was exactly the sort of photo that I wanted to do an edition of, in spite of (maybe because of?) the challenge. To coax the tonal range required to make them work as pigment prints is quite a daredevil-ish feat, but I was also certain that our Minneapolis printers were up for the job.

Just as Eric Recktenwald and his colleagues at The Lab produce the best black & white pigment prints I've ever seen, Radius produces the most gorgeous black & white books. They're still very new but they've already made quite a mark with a stunning array of releases, many of them monochromatic volumes. One of its founders, Darius Himes, is a dear friend, not to mention a Hey, Hot Shot! panelist. He's also a total book freak. I couldn't think of a better role for him, and I'm so happy that we have an opportunity to support these amazing publishers.

If you don't have any of their publications on your shelves yet, you really ought to get some! Knowing that 20x200 collectors are just the sort of people who'd love their books, Radius is offering a special 20% discount to each of you, applicable to everything in their online store, including their tempting array of limited edition volumes. Enter the code RADIUSML to have your discount applied.

20x200 has a Radius just-for-you opportunity of its own to offer: Collectors who purchase the (OMG, so totally gorgeous!) 24"x30" editions of Ironwood at Dusk or Yuha Basin will receive a complimentary copy of the Transfigurations monograph, signed by Michael.

And with those tantalizing offers extended, I'll take my leave for the week. I'll see you soon, of course — next Tuesday to be exact — but I'll see you sooner if you put the Lower East Side on your weekend agenda! Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to be participating in artlog's Collect LES Art Crawl which is this Saturday, April 18th from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.

The evening kicks off with a private, curator-led tour of the New Museum's triennial exhibition Younger Than Jesus. After touring the LES, the evening wraps up with a reception at The Sixth Ward and after party at Gallery Bar. Purchase tickets in advance to secure your spot for this 21+ years of age event.

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About Radius Books
Radius Books is a non-profit publishing company rooted firmly in the belief that the arts and dialogue among writers, thinkers, artists, and all members of society are vital to our nation's and culture's future. Radius Books encourages, promotes and publishes books of artistic and cultural value and donates at least 300 copies of every title published to libraries and schools, in order to reach and inspire new audiences, particularly young people.

Last month Mike + Doug Starn showed images and a video of Big Bambú, "a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is in constant transformation", at the Armory Show. Since the colossal structure doesn't lend itself to easy transport, VernissageTV recently interviewed the duo for a two-part video on location in (really) the structure of Big Bambú.

The Starns will open their studio to the public next month for a viewing (on a pedestal designed by Diller Scofido + Renfro), and I'll share details with you just as soon as they are made ready.

Fortune (will be successful in...) by Kirby Pilcher

If you are a photographer seeking success (who isn't, really?) + gallery representation in NYC, now's the time to apply to Hey, Hot Shot!, Jen Bekman Projects' biannual international photography competition. Hey, Hot Shot! provides photographers at all stages of their careers with the recognition, support, and exposure they deserve. The icing on the cake?!? Hey, Hot Shot! contenders + honorable mentions (and the Hot Shots) are considered for 20x200 editions.

Hey, Hot Shot! is the only way to submit photography to 20x200. Five selected Hot Shots are also rewarded with a $500 honorarium, participation in a group exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery, and consideration for gallery representation and a solo exhibition. And, again, Hey, Hot Shot! is the only way to have your photography reviewed for 20x200.

Need more info? Visit the Hey, Hot Shot! website and FAQ for details, check out the stellar panel who will be seeing your work, then send us your photos.

What are you waiting for?! There are only two weeks + two weekends left in this round of competition; all entries must be completed by Friday, May 1st, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. EST.

Want to see what you're up against or who might be making an appearance on 20x200? Browse the contenders on the HHS blog, post a comment, let us know who you love! And good luck!

David Renk 2009, from the series The Box (Texas) by Coke Wisdom O'Neal

Rainy Monday greetings, collectors!

Not so long ago I wrote about 20x200 photographer, Coke Wisdom O'Neal's visit to Texas to make new work for his ongoing project (which involves a gigantic wooden specimen box). Coke traveled to San Isidro, Texas, at the request of Mixed Greens gallery owner, Paige West, and has returned with many new images that will see their debut this Thursday evening at Mixed Greens.

In a continuation of his Box Series, begun in New York City in 2005, O’Neal and his turn-of-the-century camera traveled to the rural border town of San Isidro, Texas, to document its denizens inside a colossal 22-foot-tall sculpture. The result is a photographic study in identity and identification.

In the isolation of South Texas, O’Neal collaborated with the San Isidro community to build and activate his large-scale specimen box. They constructed the sculpture on a ranch and then moved it to the local school grounds, where O’Neal fostered an immersive and interactive art experience. O’Neal taught photography to students and invited local residents to be photographed. Later, the Box returned to the ranch, where workers and livestock were invited in.

Read the full press release here.

A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 6pm, and the exhibition will continue through May 23.

Coke Wisdom O'Neal's The Box (Texas)
Mixed Greens
531 West 26th Street
NYC

Coke's has two 20x200 edition prints available:
Needle-Needle-Nee
Close Call
See more of Coke's work here.

Vogue JUL07:pg145 (Ripeness is All)

Vanity Fair MAY08:pg269 (and, incredibly, looking not a day older)

Tuesday Edition: Lauren DiCioccio

Tuesday greetings, Collectors! As I said on The Twitter earlier this morning, the brightness and lightness of today's editions from Lauren DiCioccio seem the perfect antidote to the dreary gloom outside our East Coast windows.

Vogue JUL07:pg145 (Ripeness is All) and Vanity Fair MAY08:pg269 (and, incredibly, looking not a day older) come from Lauren's ingenious color codification dot drawings series. She describes her process thusly: "To make each painting, I lay a sheet of frosted mylar over a magazine page. I assign a color to every letter (numbers are shades of grayscale) and apply tiny dots of paint over every character on the page according to my color-code." Akin to the experience of "solving a cryptogram" her end result is "a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout — like a system of Braille for the color inclined."

I have to tell you — Ms. DiCioccio is definitely speaking my language! Her work mirrors my experience and affection for the printed page in a way that I'm just not capable of. Magazines all have their distinctive rhythms, and her work strikes right to the visual core. Magazines, multi-coloredness, systems and information design — oh my! Lauren's work is like the best candy ever to a girl like me. (And I'm not just saying that because they bring beloved button candy to mind.)

My obsession with magazines is a long-standing one. I've been haunting newsstands since I was a wee lass, and my appetites often border on the indiscriminate. Sure I anticipated the September issue of Seventeen as much as the next fashion obsessed pre-teen would, but it hardly stopped there. Everything printed and periodical was fair game — my stepfather's copy of Crain's New York, the glossy pages of the short-lived Mirabella, even my grandmother's copies of The Star, half-hidden in the guest bedroom, were a delight to peruse.

I was way ahead of the curve in mourning the death of print — the demise of fine publications like Spy, Seven Days and Jane set me reeling. I still get wistful for the days when Paper and Details were over-sized publications printed on newsprint that catered to the downtown set. My parents call me the "zine queen" to this day, and with good reason — I already subscribe to more than I can find the time to read, and still manage to rationalize gorging myself on broad array of additional titles every time I travel. (And you know that's not exactly a rare occurrence!)

Aside from my keen interest in the subject, I am pretty captivated by the objects themselves. Our printers worked extra hard to find a material on which they could faithfully reproduce the translucent ethereal quality of the originals. No small task, especially since we're all such perfectionists! The lucky ducks who got the Starn Twins' vellum prints will know exactly how particular we are. All's well that ends well — everyone's pleased as punch with the final proofs, which means that you all should get that same jolt of transparent excitement that I did upon first seeing Lauren's work.*

That lots of people will get to hold these bits of gorgeousness in their hot little hands is the whole point after all, isn't it? Sure, Lauren asks the big questions like "What will happen when we no longer touch information?" but her participation here speaks to the impossibility of that future. 20x200 is all about using the internet to put real stuff into peoples' hands. I welcome our digital future, but I don't anticipate it creating a viable substitute for that experience.

Speaking of experiences, I'm about to embark upon what promises to be an exciting one of my own. I've got another fantabulous edition to share with you tomorrow and then I'm off on another arty adventure. I'll be spending a long weekend in the South of France, where I've been invited to serve as a juror at The Hyères Festival. Ooh-la-la!

*Alas, this particular bit of particular-ness comes with a price. It took us longer than we anticipated to settle on a final version, so Lauren's editions will take a little longer to ship than usual. We expect that we'll be sending them out early next week, but rest assured — they're well worth the wait!

Wednesday Edition: Chad Muthard

The Drive with Christine by Chad Muthard

Wednesday greetings, my collector friends! I've been up since the crack of dawn, and am uncharacteristically ahead of schedule on my travel preparations. It's hard to imagine that I'll be an ocean away at this time tomorrow! I'm excited to expand my French horizons beyond the city limits of Paris, and I'm looking forward to catching up with friends and meeting a bunch of people whom I've long admired from afar. Of course, I'll also be polishing my 20x200 pitch — I'm always on the lookout for new artists to share with you. Speaking of sharing art... let's get to the business at hand, shall we?

The Drive With Christine has been in my life for a long time — I first exhibited this photograph at the gallery in the Fall 2006 edition of Hey, Hot Shot!, along with a couple of other curious and quirky images from Philadelphia-based photographer Chad Muthard. About a year after Chad's HHS! exhibition, I was pulling together a wall of art in my apartment for a photo shoot, and Christine was plucked from storage and placed just so. It's been hanging in my house ever since, oft admired and commented on by visitors. Now, thanks to the wonders of the interwebs and Chad's agreeability, I can share Christine with all of you.

I like Chad's out-of-the-frame creativity; he's always messing around and making stuff, and you never know for sure what he's up to. At the same time, you know how I feel about inaccessible art; what I love about Chad's approach is that he's not so arch that you feel like you're going to be left behind. There's enough room for your own imagination in addition to his. There's an up-to-no-good kid-stuff vibe that so draws me to this particular image. The incongruity of puzzle pieces planted on the face of a television set is akin to something my brother and I would've cooked up, left to our own devices on some rainy afternoon.

Work from his Lost in Thought 2007-08 series was just posted by our friends at I Heart Photograph, and more of his playful work can be seen on his sparely-designed website. And since the thrill of supporting a young artist is almost as great as that of owning a new artist's work, Chad points out on his blog that "a large amount of the money that I make from this sale will be put towards funding my current project The Desires of Fathers, which is being shot in Nevada and entails extensive travel and loads o'film."

Chad is the most recent of our talented crew of Hot Shots to release 20x200 editions, but he's certainly not the last! Our upcoming editions schedule is chock full photographers who have shown at Jen Bekman Gallery after being selected by our esteemed panelists. We've even got some contenders that we've featured on our blog in the mix.

We're currently accepting entries for 2009's first edition of Hey, Hot Shot! — we'll start reviewing the current crop of most accomplished contenders next month, right after the deadline which is Friday, May 1st — aka soon. If you've been considering it, there's no time like the present to gather your .jpgs and submit your work.

And with that, I'm off to The Hyères Festival! I'll touch down in NYC for just one day next week, then will be en route to Chicago to rendezvous with Jeffrey Teuton for the NEXT Art Fair. Our booth will be hung with a solo show of Sarah McKenzie's paintings, and we're bringing all kinds of additional arty goodness along in our brand new, custom-built portable flat file. Until next week, collector friends.

Grumman by Kevin Cyr

Hello collectors! Kevin Cyr will have work in a group show, It's Only Black and White, opening tomorrow night, Thursday, April 23, 2009 at Raandesk Gallery. As the title of the show suggests only black & white paintings and photographs will be on view. If you are planning to go, allow me to subtly suggest you dress yourself by sticking to the same color scheme.

From the press release:

Color is a fundamental aesthetic that can easily disguise flaws and distract the viewer with its showiness. Through the sole use of "black and white", the artist is forced to rely on other variables that constitute the word "beauty." The featured artists in this exhibition exemplify the grace and art in a world unhindered by color.

It's Only Black and White | Opening reception: April 23, 6.30-8.30pm
Raandesk | 16 W. 23rd Street, 4th Floor

Kevin's two 20x200 edition prints, Koolman and Berry are (unbelievably) still available in very limited quantities.

Image by Noah Kalina

Hello collectors!
In my quest to keep you abreast of news relevant to our 20x200 universe, I've compiled a few things that caught my eye this day. First, there is an interview with Noah Kalina on too much chocolate, another interview--this time with Brian Ulrich--on Chicagoist and an article on his TrashCam series here. There's also a Beth Dow shout out on NYArtBeat (don't miss the videos of her artist talk on the Jen Bekman Gallery blog), and hey, if you want to be in a future roundup one way might be to get our attention by submitting to Hey, Hot Shot! The deadline is looming, so hop to it and apply today!

White-eyed Vireo by Todd R. Forsgren

If you've been thinking about entering Hey, Hot Shot!, now's the time. Please note that it's the only way we are reviewing photography for 20x200 — Todd R. Forsgren, above photo, was a Fall 2007 Hot Shot and is a 20x200 superstar.

This weekend is the last weekend we'll be accepting entries for this edition of competition. All entries must be completed by Friday, May 1st, 2009 @ 8:00 p.m. EST.

We're excited. We're seeing SO much great work! We'll be upping the ante over the next week to post about as many contenders as we can over on the HHS blog so submit your photos stat.

Not quite ready to apply? Sign up for the HHS newsletter and check the blog for news on the next round.

Buongiorno collectors! Few months pass by that don't feature an edition with a flair for fonts or a twist of text, so today I've culled together some of our edition prints that possess the aforesaid passion.

OK
by Trey Speegle
Large print size available here

Untitled (I'm an island of such great complexity)
by Mike Monteiro
Choose your print size here
*Also see Untitled (You're Impossible), Untitled (I told my therapist about you), Untitled (Let's make better mistakes tomorrow), and Untitled (We are going to make it through this year if it kills us).

Fortune (will be successful in...)
by Kirby Pilcher
Large print size available here

WORD STUDY
by Mickey Smith
Only one large print remains!

Dear Collectors,

Hopefully you remember the good news I imparted not so long ago about 20x200 being nominated for the 13th Annual Webby Awards in the Art category. This is the final week to vote, so we hope you'll take a moment and cast your ballot for us.

Love,
20x200

Can You Imagine by Trey Speegle

Tuesday Edition: Trey Speegle

Tuesday greetings from hot and sunny New York! It's in the nineties here, and we're doing all we can to keep ourselves cool at 20x200 HQ. This is Youngna Park, filling in for Jen today, who touched down to pink-streaked skies at JFK last night en route back from the The Hyères Festival in the South of France. She is in town ever-so-briefly before leaving for the NEXT Art Fair in Chicago tomorrow, where she and Jen Bekman Gallery's Associate Director, Jeffrey Teuton, will be at Booth 7-8033 with work on view by Sarah McKenzie and many JBG & 20x200 artists. But, before we go into what's upcoming, let's start with today's edition.

Today we bring you Can You Imagine, new work from Trey Speegle, whose large-scale collage OK, was our first introduction to the reassuring messages possible in paint-by-numbers. Can You Imagine is a mighty fine sequel to OK, with a cooling palette of sixty colors that invites us to jump right into its refreshing waves. With water in blue, green, turquoise and purple crashing against rocky cliffs, we can imagine taking a dive into this rejuvenating sea, right this instant.

Paint-by-numbers, the 50s art kit invented by Palmer Paint Company's Dan Robbins, invited the everyman to pick up a paintbrush. Far from abiding to the uniformity of a painting with prescribed colors, Speegle's personal collection of 2,500+ vintage paint-by-numbers is a nearly limitless starting point for unique reinterpretation as he enlarges the picture plane, silkscreens it onto canvas, then mixes an original palette for each work.

As you know, 20x200 is also a great friend of the intersection of text and art, embracing phrases that make us contemplate sometimes-comic, sometimes-inspirational simple statements made bold. Mike Monteiro's refrain, Let's make better mistakes tomorrow, is a—literally, black and white—statement about the humor in fallibility. Matt Jones' Get Excited and Make Things inspires us to get up and do something, a message about initiative and innovation. Like Jones, Speegle offers us an inspirational challenge: Can You Imagine is a boundless message about possibility and wonder, even when each color stays within the lines. As Mr. Speegle says himself, it is both profound and mundane, "where the impulse to create lives." If you're in New York, Trey's original paint-by-numbers are currently on view at Cheryl Hazan Gallery in the group show, Spring Sequence; you can catch them there through May 25th.

So, as mentioned, Jen's zipping off to Chicago to meet Jeffrey at NEXT. The walls of our booth will feature a lovely selection of paintings from Sarah McKenzie, including some brand new pieces. We'll also have a flat file full of paintings and photographs from other members of the JBP family, including Ian Baguskas, Gregory Krum, Carrie Marill and Christian Chaize. Please do ask to have a look at those. Jen's also participating in the NEXT Talk Shop series which is running concurrent to the fair. She'll be appearing alongside other art world renegades on the Alternative Spaces and the Creative Current panel which is happening on Sunday, May 3rd, 2:30 - 3:30 at The Merchandise Mart.

We've got lots more on tap before the fair opens too, naturally. We're back tomorrow with a double photography edition from a very recent Hot Shot, a fitting edition for a week that also includes the deadline for this year's first edition of the competition. The deadline for Hey, Hot Shot! is this Friday, so if you're thinking about how to get YOUR photography on the radar, there's no time like the present.

Mike Moneiro's design company, Mule, was inspired excited by Matt Jones to produce a t-shirt of his Get Excited And Make Things design which is available right here on 20x200. The edition print sales will benefit Creative Commons, and every t-shirt sale will raise $5 for families in need on SmallCanBeBig.org.

Buy a t-shirt here; choose an edition print size here.

Dinner. Village of Zorin, Exclusion Zone, Chernobyl by Donald Weber

Forest. Exclusion Zone, Chernobyl by Donald Weber

Rocky Mountain greetings collectors! It's Sara Distin, writing from Colorado. The Eagle River is running high and loud as the sun is melting off all the snow — I'm trying not to get distracted from the task at hand, so first things first: tomorrow is the last day to vote for 20x200 in the Webby Awards. Please help us win! It's easy: register, click on your confirmation email and vote! You can find us in the Art category, under Entertainment. We've all cast our own ballots, which is good because, as per usual, Team JBP is scattered across the country.

Jen's on her way to NEXT in Chicago and headed straight for The Merchandise Mart to meet Jeffrey Teuton and arrange Sarah McKenzie's paintings, which include two brand new works that were not featured in her recent show at the JB Gallery. If you're in the area and want to swing by the fair, drop J+J a note at info at jenbekman dot com and they'll hook you up with some free passes!

In spite of these events and all our adventures near and far, none of us are as far flung as today's edition-maker; Canadian-born photographer Donald Weber usually calls Kiev and Moscow home. The first time I wrote about Donald's work was right after he entered Hey, Hot Shot! at the end of 2008. He had won a Guggenheim Fellowship the previous year and before that the Lange Taylor Prize and a World Press Award, so we all knew who he was. We were, frankly, a little stunned and completely thrilled that he had entered HHS! Since then, via iPhone emails from Eastern Europe, we've talked about books, planned an exhibition, asked and answered a few Qs and As, and finally, worked out the details of these editions. It's been a long haul!

Way back at the beginning, as I wrote on the HHS! blog, Forest. Exclusion Zone, Chernobyl immediately made me think of one of my favorite books, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and the father and son sifting through post-apocalyptic woods in their search for the very basics for survival. As I read more about the photographs, whatever rang in my gut that linked the two works proved true. Weber's been documenting the people living within the 40 kilometer ring around the city of Pripyat, known as the Zone of Alienation or the Exclusion Zone, evacuated immediately after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Since the explosion, an assortment of outcasts have returned to the area, favoring rural lifestyles over the industrial pace in the rest of Ukraine.

It may be because we idealize the pastoral life that Weber's characters, like the father and daughter preparing rabbit in Dinner. Village of Zorin, Exclusion Zone, Chernobyl appear to have stepped out of a 15th Century painting or novel. Donald's work is steeped in literature and a sense of history with strong narratives arcing throughout; it's clear he's read his Dostoevsky. Where fiction seeps into the real lie revelations that are difficult to enunciate but impossible to hide once illuminated by the camera. In this case, as Weber writes, "it's the curse of power, and the wounds it inflicts on those who don’t have it."

Weber's life also seems to be one straight from a book, led by chance and circumstance and the belief that all will work out in the end. After a stint as an architect with Rem Koolhaas, he marks his decision to become a photographer by a series of decisive moments, among them the collapse of communism, a high school teacher telling him he was a terrible photographer, and sliding across the top of a Chevy after being hit on his motorcycle. This combination of political, personal, and physical experiences resonates in all of his photographs; spend some time on his website and you'll see what I mean. It's powerful, poetic stuff — classical, elegant images from worlds not so far away from our own. It's as if Weber, like McCarthy's father and son, is here to bring us stories of the future and from the past to the present — to carry the fire.

Jen will be back tomorrow with all her fire, and more editions from another fantastic Hot Shot!

You'll recall that 20x200 artist Jorge Clombo uses his iPhone to create dreamlike images of New York. Recently Jorge demystified his process for FOX5 in the clip above. View more of Jorge's work right here on 20x200, and on his site.

Hello collectors! Recently Sara wrote about the BAMart's Silent Auction which opened yesterday at 5:00 p.m. with both a live exhibition and in-person + online bidding. You can now view and bid on works at BAM, 24/7 until on May 11th, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.

Also remember to save the date for the Silent Auction Cocktail Reception with special guests Andrew Andrew on Saturday, May 9, from 5-7 PM at BAM.

Visit Andrew Andrew for easy as 1, 2, 3 bidding instructions. Then start browsing + bookmarking the works you want! We're especially excited to see so many Jen Bekman Gallery and 20x200 artists participating. Among the works available, you'll find:

Untitled #8, 2008 by Kent Rogowski

2nd Class Girls, "St. Petersburg, Russia", 2007 by Rachel Papo

Red Hook Revere Sugar Refinery Ruins (Ikea Flattening and Flatpacking Construction, Our Biggest Idea is the Smallest Price), 2009 by Greg Lindquist

Optical, 2008 by Carrie Marill

TIME 2009 by Mickey Smith

Untitled #17 by Matthew Tischler

Untitled #9 by Matthew Tischler

Thursday Edition: Matthew Tischler

Greetings from the city of big shoulders, my collector friends. We're in the final hours before tonight's preview events for the NEXT Fair. Booth 7-8033 — featuring paintings by Sarah McKenzie — is looking most fine, thanks to the labors of Mr. Jeffrey Teuton. A much-deserved shoutout also goes to the folks at DWR, who've generously provided us with lovely furnishings for our little square of art fair.

We've been busy bees, but still! I've missed you all these past two newsletters, resting somewhat easier knowing that you were in the capable, articulate care of Youngna and Sara. It's a good thing they swept in from the wings; the internet has SO not been my friend as of late, making it a Sisyphean challenge to eke out even the most meager of tweets. Surely a small price to pay, considering the amazing adventures I've been enjoying, but I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear lack of internet access leads to the onset of an ideological Phantom Limb syndrome. On the bright side: Oh, the places I've gone! Such adventures, including the one I'm in the midst of one right this very second.

All this air travel and not-being-able-to-get-on-the-internet-no-matter-how-hard-I-tried time has given me a chance to indulge in one of my favorite pastimes: overdosing on magazines. My #1 read thus far is the newly retooled Interview which included conversation with the enterprising and talented Andy Spade wherein he name-checked our very own Jason Polan and HHS! panelist Julia Leach. Speaking of Hey, Hot Shot! — we're close to 24 hours out from our deadline, so if you want to get your work in front of the likes of Ms. Leach — now's your chance.

Today's edition-maker Matthew Tischler did just that back in the early days of the competition and Julia was impressed enough by his Screens series that she added one of his prints to her very impressive, witty and gorgeously curated personal collection. Now you too have an opportunity to have some Tischler's in your midst. You could create quite a nice salon style hanging of them in fact, since today's Untitled #9 and Untitled #17 are follow-ups to our not-so-long-ago release of two other images from the series, Untitled #4 and Untitled #15. As I said when announcing those two beauties, Tischler's series triggers a remembrance of things past in the most delightful way. With the summer months tantalizingly close at hand, I'd like to also think of them as predictive of some very near future R&R. (I need it bad!)

Alas what I really need to do, righthisminute is get! going! I need to figure out my look for tonight (thank God JT's here to help!) and then we're off to put some finishing touches on the booth. Egad! I have lots more to tell you about my trip to France. (Was I really just in France?! It already seems so far away...) I met so many amazing people there!

The event's organizer, Michel Mallard, is a social engineering genius (and that's just one of his many geniuses). I also got to hang out with some friends I never get to see enough of: the estimable Mr. Joerg Colberg, editor of Conscientious and former HHS! panelist, and the now-Philadelphia-based Hot Shot Daniel Traub, who recently moved back to the States after living in China for nine years. Which brings me back to my parting bit of advice for the photographers among you, namely: enter Hey, Hot Shot!. The panel is awesome — not to mention thoughtful, engaged and passionate, and the opportunities are incredible.

Right this moment, Jen and Associate Director of JB Gallery, Jeffrey Teuton are putting the finishing touches on the gallery's booth at NEXT Art Fair. We are very excited to be showing Sarah McKenzie’s Building Code, including two new works making their debut at the fair. NEXT is an invitational Art Fair showcasing new contemporary artwork from around the world, making it both accessible and affordable to the public. Work is being shown from both commercial and non-commercial arts organizations — galleries, project spaces, art publications and key private contemporary collections.

So, not only is it an incredible art fair, but loads of 20x200 artists are there, and Hot Shots too! Work by Ian Baguskas, Joseph Holmes, Brad Moore, Gregory Krum, Hosang Park, Carlo Van de Roer, and other artists are available to view on request. If you happen to be in Chicago, we hope you'll come see us!

We are at:
Booth 7-8033
NEXT Art Fair
April 30 – May 4, 2009 (Thurs – Monday)
The Merchandise Mart

Daisy by Christina Muraczewski

Los Angeles collectors, this one is for you. Art and food might be two of the best reasons to exist, and they will combine forces this weekend at the 20th annual Santa Fe Art Colony Open Studio/Artwalk Weekend. 20x200 artist Christina Muraczewski is a resident artist, and will be showing new work for you to ogle this weekend.

From the press release:

It is a truly unique experience to see an artists work within the context of its creation. A glimpse into the creative environment of the artist provides insight to the creative process that cannot be gleaned from a gallery exhibition. Artists are on hand to answer questions, and it is a rare treat to see new works in progress in addition to studies and finished pieces. The Artwalk is an opportunity to purchase work directly from the artist and see what is coming up in the LA art scene.

Santa Fe Art Colony Open Studios
20th Annual Open Studios
May 2nd and May 3rd
Saturday and Sunday, 12 - 7pm

Well-being 2 by Valerie Roybal featured in People Magazine's Style Watch (above)

Good news! 20x200 made the grade in People Magazine's IN & OUT feature alongside home cooking, spiked cocktails and loose bouquets. I'm positive a 20x200 edition print would be right at home with all of the above, and come to think of it, so would I!

Viva 20x200!

Embers of the Maritime by Greg Lindquist

20x200 painter Greg Lindquist has curated a show, Hypothetical Landscapes, which opens tomorrow, May 1, at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in Brooklyn.

From the press release:

The eight contemporary artists in this exhibition work in abstract modes while referring to natural or humanmade forms in the landscape. While these relationships are apparent in each of the artists’ work—some appearing more conceptually supposed than visually evident—they create a hypothetical proposition between abstraction and landscape. To order his or her pictorial reality, each artist utilizes an organizing structure—a lattice, grid, mesh or framework—from natural forms found in the landscape.

HYPOTHETICAL LANDSCAPES
Curated by Greg Lindquist
JANET KURNATOWSKI GALLERY | May 1 - 31, 2009
205 Norman Ave, Brooklyn, NY