The 12 Days of Festivus
Filed Under: 20x200 On: December 21, 2009 posted by: youngna
We can hardly believe it's the Monday before Christmas and our 12 Days of Festivus have already come and gone. There were lots of brand new editions hitting your inboxes these last few weeks, so we wanted to remind you of all the great art here for you on the site that you can still order in time for Christmas*.
What now seems like a long time ago, we kicked off our festivities with two editions for the shutterbugs among you: Photographer's Dilemma by Japanese artist Tatsuro Kiuchi and 28 Camera Drawings by Ms. Christine Berrie. From there, we introduced a photograph of a dusky Nevada tree lot by 2009 First Edition Hot Shot Mike Sinclair. The quietude of lights above the trees offered a moment of pause before the forthcoming holiday hubbub.

28 Camera Drawings by Christine Berrie
We were back the following day with two new Ideal Bookshelves from 20x200-favorite Jane Mount—one, a collection of cookbooks and foodie favorites from Brooklyn chef George Weld; the other a selection of children's book standouts from Ella, the daughter of design blogger Tina Roth Eisenberg (aka Swiss Miss).
From there we hit the beach—Praia Piquinia in Portugal to be exact—where Christian Chaize has photographed this pristine parcel of land at all hours of the day and seasons of the year. His two newest 20x200 editions Praia Piquinia 06/08/09 14h01 and Praia Piquinia 27/08/09 15h17 have us wishing for warmth as the days get colder (but at least after today—longer!).
Amy Casey's intricate tangle of houses in Residential Web started off week two of Festivus, before switching gears—literally—with four new images from Joseph O. Holmes' Custom Machinery series. Capturing working spaces full of seasoned machines (and the men who operate them), Joe's serene portraits of age-old spaces captures a moment of New York that may soon be lost.
Book-designer Stefanie Posavec helped us tap the collective literary nerd within with her infographically luscious Walter Benjamin: A Literary Organism Analysis. Words, lines, sentences and paragraphs were broken down with intricate care; Stefanie both reads between—and creates—literary lines.

Icicle Intervention, Victor, Idaho by William Lamson
We next saw two images from Will Lamson's whimsical and nature-drive Interventions. Dandelion Clothesline, Santiago, Chile and Icicle Intervention, Victor, Idaho are both ethereal and whimsical. As Sara wrote just over a week ago, "Will's interventions are all about making the most of our time here on earth—exploring, playing and pushing the most visceral aspects of our experience."
We introduced Curvilinear Time by Jessica Snow, another 20x200 veteran on Day 9, her "graphic-yet-painterly" lines filling the page with a sense of perpetual—yet encapsulated—motion. On the opposite spectrum, the four images from James Deavin released the day afterwords: Climbing Wall No. 3, Golf Driving Range, Velodrome and Long Jump Pit, are exercises of extreme restraint. The abstraction of sporting grounds is contained within a calculated frame and the playing fields are at an absolute stand still.
We followed with the release of ny.09#19 and ny.09#20, two cheerful and energizing paintings by Jennifer Sanchez.

alleverythingthatisyou sno7.1_003 by Mike + Doug Starn
And then! Just when you thought we were all done! We were back with an utterly gorgeous snowflake print (and it seems you all thought so too) from the Starn Twins' series alleverythingthatisyou to really round out our holiday spree.
Now if you still haven't found the perfect print amongst all these, there are featured sets, artists gift guides, newsletters, staff and VIP picks to help guide your way.
Happy Holidays; we hope it's filled with art!
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01/06/10 11:56 AM
Sandra Anton said...
I think this may be a triptych. I am keeping my eyes out for the third and last image in this series. anyone else agree?