Residential Web by Amy Casey

Happy Monday, collectors! Jen is just getting back to NYC from PULSE Miami, so it's Sara today. Residential Web is painter Amy Casey's 20x200 debut and I'm super excited to share her work with you. Her paintings work beautifully when they're reincarnated as prints, as you'll see for yourself. In keeping with the intimate scale of her original, we're releasing this edition in 10"x8", 14"x11" and 20"x16" sizes only.

We're also happy to introduce gift packaging, which makes giving (not to mention getting!) 20x200 art that much sweeter. Starting today, you can have prints 11"x14" and smaller* sent in our spiffy new gift packaging—we're rather smitten with the custom-embossed blue portfolios and their accompanying gift cards, and we think you'll be too! We'll also enclose a personal message from you printed on a 20x200 card. Today's 200-minute special is devised to ensure that lots of you get a taste of this gifting good-life PDQ and for free! After you've picked your prints, add gift packaging to your order, then enter 200xPORTFOLIO at Google checkout.

Enter 200xPORTFOLIO at Google checkout for FREE gift packaging until 6:05 p.m. EST tonight.

We're only extending this offer to the first 200 collectors (one free portfolio per collector!) and as usual, all of you newsletter readers have the first chance to get your orders in! So hop to it! Everyone else will be given the heads up an hour after you get this notice in your inbox.

And as always, you're among the first to see this print by Cleveland-based Ms. Casey. The houses in Residential Web appear to be flying through the air, signs of disaster and general chaos, touching on a very personal feeling of helplessness in the grand scheme of the universe. As Amy writes: "Feeling a small, useless painter, I created an alternate world that I can menace with difficulties while simultaneously trying my best to stick it back together and rebuild communities and connections."

As artists and as individuals, it's easy to question the ability we all have to affect change and make things better. But, unlike Dorothy's flying home in the Wizard of Oz, these houses are all connected. So when the wind stops blowing and the dust begins to settle, these little lifelines will guide a return to order and safety. The communities that we build, both literally—in our towns and cities— and metaphorically—with friends, family and neighbors— are what saves us. As you're out and about re-connecting with friends and family far and wide over the next few weeks, you may also have the chance to see Amy's work in person. Her work is currently on view in Zg Gallery's Office Space in Chicago through December 31st and will be on view at Michael Rosenthal Gallery in San Francisco beginning January 16th. If you're neither here nor there, rest assured, we'll continue to bring fresh art through the ever-connected internets! Six more days of Festivus left!

* All prints in a single order will be included in the same portfolio. You can give one or several prints to the same recipient!