Sunrise by Lisa Congdon

Tuesday greetings from sweltering NYC, collector friends! It's really downright icky out there today, and I expect that there will be plenty more of the same for the rest of July. Come week's end, I'm flipping the weather switch and heading off to the city famously described (although not by Mark Twain) thusly: "The coldest winter I've ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." To which I say: bring it on! And not just because of the weather, of course. SF has long been my second home, and it's also the home of lots and lots of the talented artists we work with. Today's edition, Sunrise, is by Ms. Lisa Congdon—she embodying many of the qualities I adore the most about my SF friends and colleagues: resourceful, endlessly creative, nature-loving, bike-riding, dog-loving and downright nice.

Sunrise is our eighth offering from Lisa, and its release puts her photography editions from her Collection a Day series in balance with her fine art print editions, which clearly establish that she's certainly no slouch in either medium. Sunrise is a print based on an original painting that's included in Boreas, an exhibition of Lisa's work on view at Gallery Hijinks, which happens to be in...you guessed it!...San Francisco. Here's what they've got to say about the exhibition:

This exhibition offers a vibrant palate of paintings, drawings and collages juxtaposed with cold, achromic objects and installation. Here the viewer may visually experience the continuous daylight of Iceland's summer midnight sun, autumn's Aurora Borealis and winter's endless darkness, all in one scope.

I've been promised a private tour of the exhibition by the artist herself, which I'm hoping will be followed by the sipping of delicious cocktails and the nibbling of yummy eats. (Both of those things being almost-too-easy to come by in that town.) If I'm lucky, some other SF-based artists might come along: J. Otto Seibold, Mike Monteiro, Wendy MacNaughton, Todd Hido, Jenny Odell... I might even be able to squeeze in a visit with papa-to-be Geoffrey Ellis and his lovely wife, Sarah. With so many people to see (and I've only named a few!) and so much to do, the week is starting to feel awfully short.

This week is likely to fly by as well, with things percolating furiously as ever around 20x200 HQ. We're still pretty amped about our sitewide launch of frames, which means that you can get any of this week's editions delivered to you in a gorgeous custom frame. Tomorrow brings a new release from Hot Shot Laura Bell, whose first prints made quite a splash. And then on Thursday, we'll welcome NY artist Tom Slaughter into the 20x200 fold. I can't wait to show you the two fabulous editions that he created just for us.

— Jen