Untitled (Quill/Coda Rugs) by Christina Muraczewski

Happy Tuesday, dear collectors! Five-time edition-maker Christina Muraczewski holds a special place in our hearts here at 20x200—she was among the very first artists featured when we first launched. Over the years since, she's pushed her design-borrowing-from-art-borrowing-from-design-to-make-art-again aesthetic past the sensible limits.

Untitled (Quill/Coda Rugs)—an arrangement of somewhat familiar stripes, faux bois, flora and fauna—seems simple at first. But the illusion of space Christina's concocted elucidates something more interesting: a play on real and fake. I spent some more time considering this when introducing Flora #2:

The clever faux bois that papers the backgrounds of her compositions is where Chrissy's smart surface interpretations begin, but her blending of real and fake extends to the objects painted over them. The flowers, birds, polka dots and patterns are borrowed from the design language of desire that we're all vaguely (if not intimately) familiar with, thanks to Ikea, Crate & Barrel and the like.

To see how far Ms. Muraczewski pursues these ideas, check out her project Ikea. For now I'll leave you with that, but we have lots of good stuff on deck: tomorrow we'll have new work from Laura Bell, and on Thursday we'll have a suite of prints from seminal performance artist William Pope.L. Till then!

— Sara