Prolific iPhone sketcher and six-time 20x200 edition-maker Jorge Colombo has posted an interesting look into the process behind his drawings called "Night Lights". The New Yorker, for whom Jorge does one iSketch a week, has also covered the process, but here we hear from the artist himself.

On capturing the likeness of a city, Jorge writes,

My Finger Paintings series, running in thenewyorker.com since last June, or published as prints by 20x200.com, has been a road map to plunder icons from the city I've lived in for the past eleven years. They're a bit of likeness portraits: stripped of recognizable indicators, what makes a landscape feel like New York and not like somewhere else? I don't shy away from famous buildings or vistas, but I'm happy when a non-descript stretch of street bears the details, proportions, light, and feel, that clearly brand it as Manhattan. A series I started last summer in San Francisco worked the same way: what's the shorthand to best convey this city? What does it really look like here?

On how drawing on a iPhone has changed his work, he writes,

It has been widely reported that my drawings are now made on an iPhone... Considering all the sketches and watercolors and photographs I have done in the USA for the past twenty years, my output in the Brushes app since I bought a G3 last February is still rather small...In the process, something has changed in my drawings. I discovered a brushstroke looseness I could have embraced ages ago, were I not busy with my precise watercolors. It all came from tailoring one's approach to better suit the tool. Sharp line work and controlled coloring are not that easy when you're drawing with your finger on a surface smaller than a credit card. But loose smudges, and bright layered colors, are naturals. So I simply embraced the language suggested by the equipment.

To read the rest of the piece, head over to Drawger and then stop by 20x200 to grab your very own iSketches.

Untitled by Kate Bingaman-Burt

20x200 darling (and Summer '06 Hot Shot) Kate Bingaman-Burt has been documenting her daily consumption for close to a decade. Now, she wants our help with a new side project.

Kate clarifies:

I want to draw your mixtapes. I want your sad songs, you love jams, your sing at the top of your lungs car tunes, your break-up tape, your make-up tape and your BFF-4evah cassette.

I am only drawing the tape. If you want to participate, please snap a picture of the best side of your favorite tape and email it to me (see my profile) or upload it to your flickrstream and let me know.

If only I still had that mixtape that Ryan Butler made me in 6th grade! I am happy to think that it changed my life. Kate seems to deeply understand the nostalgic power of the nearly outmoded mixtape, so if you still have a mixtape collection, be sure to help Kate out!

See more of Kate on her site, Obsessive Consumption. Her editions, I Bought All of These, Drawings from July 2009 and Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Carts #1 are also both still available on 20x200. Kate is also featured in the recently released documentary, Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design. Then, last but certainly not least, you can also see Kate's mixtapes in our upcoming show at Jen Bekman Gallery opening at the end of November!

Lisa Congdon, 20x200 edition-maker and co-owner of Rare Device, one of our very favorite San Francisco stores, will be exhibiting her work in the gallery area of the shop. Lisa and Amy Ruppel will share the space, paying homage to the "cloven hoofed, horned, furry" animals of the family Bovidae.

Both Amy and Lisa have chosen five different Bovids to articulate in their own styles, including the Yak, Duiker, Bongo and Chamois. Not to be limited to the 2-D, the installation will also include horns, antlers and a fake fur chandelier.

GENTLY BY THE HORNS: NEW WORK BY AMY RUPPEL AND LISA CONGDON
Opening: Friday, November 6, 2009 7–9 p.m.t
Rare Device
1845 Market Street
San Francisco

Knick Knacks by Tamara Thomsen

20x200 artist Tamara Thomsen will be happy to host you in her studio in Brooklyn this Saturday and Sunday, October 17th and 18th from 1-6 p.m. Tamara is a participant in this year's A.G.A.S.T. (Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour) which organizes over 100 artists to share their spaces and their work.

From the A.G.A.S.T. mission statement:

The mission of the Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour is to provide the public a unique opportunity to visit and engage one-on-one with working artists for the purpose of gaining a broader appreciation of the various types of visual art media. The intimacy of the in-studio experience encourages an educational dialogue between the visitor and the artist. The visitor is able to see the process and methods of making art in the environment in which the art is created. We believe the artists and their work constitute a vital piece of the fabric of urban life by linking community together through the arts. By opening his/ her studio free to the public, an artist affords a community member a chance to encounter a new stimulating artistic environment, ask questions, and expand his/ her appreciation of visual arts as they are being created in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn.

You can find Tamara and her studio here:
94 Ninth Street, 4th Floor, Studio 48
Cross Streets: 3rd Ave and Nevins
Brooklyn, NY

13th Annual A.G.A.S.T. Tour
Saturday and Sunday, October 17-18, from 1-6 p.m.
Download a map of the tour here before you set out!

Tamara has two 20x200 editions available to you, Stairway and Winter Kitchen. Additional works from the same series, Chambers, will be on view in her studio this weekend. Sneak a peek here.

20x200 edition-maker, Trey Speegle, just returned from a whirlwind trip to Paris Fashion Week where he was commissioned by designer Stella McCartney to create a runway backdrop in his signature paint-by-numbers style. When Youngna introduced Trey's second 20x200 edition, she gave interesting insight into his process:

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.

At its large size, Trey's YES mural serves as both backdrop and centerpiece to the show. Trey remarks that the message "Yes" was intended to broadcast an aura of positivity, while the figures he painted are dressed in tones also exhibited in McCartney's collection.

Style.com has a video of the show featuring Stella McCartney's full collection and a brief interview with Trey.

Trey's first 20x200 edition, OK, is entirely sold out, but his second, Can You Imagine, is available in all sizes.

Korczowa #2, 15/9/2009 12:14 by Bert Teunissen

Documentary photographer Bert Teunissen has returned from Poland to add 41 new images to his burgeoning index of people and their homes. Thanks to a grant from Blue Earth Alliance in Seattle, Bert will continue to travel far and wide to create more images for his Domestic Landscapes project that he describes in this way:

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 develop here.

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

Three Points, 2009 by Ky Anderson

I've just returned from a long visit to Ky Anderson's website, which has been newly updated with archives of her paintings from the past five years. It is an interesting study to see how her past usage of color, line and shape continue to unfold and inform her current body of work.

Ky is also an ardent art collector who has indexed her ever expanding collection here. Her personal archive includes work from 20x200 artists Megan Whitmarsh, Jason Polan, and Beth Dow, so you know she has superior taste!

Three edition prints from Ky are still available to you on 20x200: Fingerprint, Handing, and Many Mountains. Get 'em while they last!

Tree Tops, from the series Somewhere in Israel by Curtis Mann

I've always liked the work of 20x200 edition-maker Curtis Mann, his apocalyptic take on found imagery is graphic and fresh. It's no wonder that he has attracted the curatorial attention of Ms. Jen Bekman, fellow edition-maker Rachel Hulin and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, where he is currently part of a group show.

His images are captivating but how they are made is a bit of a mystery to me. I was super excited to come across a four minute documentary by Alan Del Rio Ortiz on this very subject. Do yourself a favor and take the next four minutes of your life to watch Curtis don a gas mask and get to work on some found photographs:

Curtis's 20x200 edition is almost completely sold out but the remaining $2000 prints are actually original works...tempting! Also make sure to head over to Curtis's website and check out some of his work, such as The Wanderers series using the cool zoom-viewer he has set up.

I'd love to keep entertaining you, but I've got a date with some Clorox, a box of old photographs and the kitchen sink!

Brenda the Elephant by Luke Stephenson

Photographer Luke Stephenson has just completed a new project, Stanelli's Super Circus. The photographs are portraits of puppets made by renowned British puppeteer Stan Parker. The entire project can be viewed on Luke's Flickr stream.

Both of his 20x200 editions are from his ongoing series of portraits of show birds. Only one print remains!

See more of Luke's portraits of birds, dart enthusiasts and puppets on his website.

It seemed fated that 20x200 would have something in common with twenty2wo, seeing as how we have the same affinity for alliteration and the number two. And it turns out, we do!

Designer Adam Beneke has highlighted more than a couple 20x200 artists on twenty2wo, his curated site that features "inspiring visual art from around the globe," with a lot of design and illustration thrown into the mix.

Recently on twenty2wo:

Filter Samples by Jessica Eaton

And do you recognize this artist? Hint: her 20x200 edition can be found here.

Geopolitical Tumescence by Sarah Spitler

Two tips to close:

1. twenty2wo is also a printed magazine and is always looking for artist contributions or creative collaborations. Drop Adam a line at adam AT twenty2wo DOT com if you have some ideas you'd like to share with him.

2. Adam's spotted a few artists we've had our eye on for some time; more overlap is imminent! I can feel it. Stay tuned to see who's next.

20x200 edition-makers, Doug and Mike Starn were recently commissioned alongside the likes of superstars like Jeff Koons, Frank Gehry, Jenny Holzer, and Francesco Vezzoli by the New York Times Style Magazine to reimagine the iconic "T" logo. Their sculpture, shown above, is a spin-off of their massive installation, Big Bambú. Congratulations Doug and Mike!

Worth noting is that the piece is actually built from giant bamboo sticks "and was assembled by a team of rock climbers under the direction of the artists." The NYT posted an exciting timelapse of the process:

Make sure to check out the other "re-imaginings" over at the NYT Style Magazine.

Survival of the fittest by Jonathan Allen

Three cheers for Jonathan Allen who was recently awarded a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council residency. The highly coveted residency will allow him to relocate his studio to Lower Manhattan for the next nine months.

It has truly been an exceptional year for Jonathan. He's had a solo show, been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, was featured in Vogue and he was invited to be part of this year's Whitney Art Party!

Go Jonathan, go!

Jonthan's 20x200 edition, Torn is available here.

Visit Jonathan's site.

The ever humble and eminently talented Mr. Jason Polan had another drawing in the New York Times this week:

You can read the article this image accompanies here.

Jason will have work in a group show, Art—Read, opening this Saturday night at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton. The show features artists who have adopted a "multidisciplinary approach to making work and in every case has made the creation of artists’ books a significant part of their practice". Artists in the show with Jason are: Tauba Auerbach, Fiona Banner, Chris Duncan, Roe Ethridge, Terence Koh, Seth Price, Dean Sameshima, Paul Schiek and Derek Sullivan.

More info here.

Jason also wrapped up five new drawing videos for Hello Health:

Welcome from Hello Health on Vimeo.

Additionally, Jason has illustrations in the current issues of Esquire and GOOD magazines. I'm particularly interested in seeing more of his illustrations of A Visual History of Water Weaponry, so I better find myself a newsstand fast. Here is half of the history of The Evolution of the Squirt Gun from GOOD:

Books and zines that Jason has made of all things excellent are available at Printed Matter.

Jason Polan's 20x200 editions:
Insects and Myriapods at The American Museum of Natural History
Sea Creatures at The American Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs at The American Museum of Natural History
132 Birds at The American Museum of Natural History
Every Person in New York
Hand Project

Jason Polan's sites:
Jason Polan
The Drawing Project
Every Person in New York
The 53rd Street Biological Society

cover of Threefold Sun by Taj Forer

Jen: Hi there. Love your editions so! I am excited!
Taj: Oh, shucks. Thanks for doing this. I'm very psyched myself.
Jen: Sure thing, I am sorry that we didn't connect sooner. But what's funny is that this weekend I was at the Hawthorne Valley Farm store. So I've had Steiner on my mind.
Taj: No way! That place is amazing.
Jen: And I also got to drink raw milk. For the first time ever. And it is delicioso. Buttery.
Taj: So tasty. Amazing! Amazing that that's the ONLY way milk used to be consumed and now it's the rare exception...
Jen: You moved right? Because before I think you were living upstate?
Taj: Well, I had been living in North Carolina and this winter moved up to CT where I am now. Just north of the city on Metro North which is nice. I love cities but don't think I could ever live in one—especially the Big Apple! You guys are all crazy for living there as far as I'm concerned B-)
Jen: I was imagining you up there all cozy, drinking the raw milk daily.
Taj: ha! Too funny. No, I wish I lived on a farm upstate—someday...
Jen: Yea, I spent a lot of time up there when I was growing up. My granny lives in Hillsdale. And I spent summers up there with her... we'd go to the Steiner school for performances and stuff.
Taj: Nice. It's so gorgeous and always shocks me how close the beautiful, open farmland is to NYC. Really incredible. Wow.
Jen: Long before slow food and sustainability was chic, it was all longhairs and wheatgrass, baby!
Taj: I had no idea you had a Steiner connection. Very interesting. Love it!
Jen: Last weekend, I was up there with my friends Alaina and Anil, and Alaina is the GM of this (awesome) food site called Serious Eats. So they were happy to go foraging with me and go to all the local farm stands, etc.
Taj: Sounds like my kind of weekend.
Jen: And the Hawthorne Valley place was the most store like, but also took first prize because aside from providing us all with the unique and delicious raw milk experience, they also stock a dazzling array of root beers.
Taj: Really? I didn't know that. Do they make their own?
Jen: And I discovered over the weekend that Columbia County has more working farms than any other NYS county! Yes, they are only allowed to sell it directly from the store there, they can't bring it down to the greenmarket even.
Taj: Wow. That's nuts. I guess it makes sense though. Seems to be almost all farmland up there.
Jen: It's super regulated although I can't tell if it's because of real danger or powerful Dairy Industry lobbyists.
So, can you tell me how you connected with Steiner?
Taj: Oh, I would imagine it's all lobbyist pressure. From my experience working on small, sustainable farms when I lived in NC (and my many friends that still run such farms), the 'raw' regulations have almost nothing to do with 'food safety'—it's quite scary and eye opening really. But, to answer your question re: how I connected with Steiner—I attended a Waldorf school when I was a child, K-8 grade.
Jen: Right, we are in such an interesting time in our history. A lot of my techy friends are newly interested in government because of Obama, but as they wade into the bureaucracy with the intention of being part of a big change, their eyes are being opened to a lot of the crazy stuff that is part of our government, lobbies being one of them.
Ah! Right see this is what was part of what was cool about the whole Hawthorne Valley thing, was getting to fire up Wikipedia... And talk to my friends about Steiner and Waldorf etc.
Taj: It was a school located in an old farmhouse and surrounded by fields, forests and streams. Just gorgeous. As I got older and began the process of exploring my own life (rather than the lives of others) through photography, I turned my attention to the landscape of the Waldorf school that I attended as a child.
Jen: I will freely confess that my level of Waldorf-informedness is fuzzy at best. Now though, looking at it as an adult in our current culture, it seems downright visionary in a lot of ways.
Taj: I completely agree that Steiner was a visionary.
No doubt about it. One of the greatest (yet little-known) thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I don't agree with everything he wrote/taught, but find amazing inspiration in the intention of his work.
Jen: Also I don't mean to be disrespectful in my glibness. I just have that way about me.

Tree house, Taos, New Mexico by Taj Forer

Taj: And do, indeed, find much of his teaching to be timeless and inspirational for sure... ha! No disrespect was felt.
Jen: But ya, I mean a lot of the ethos he puts forth (at least from my recent surface inspection) seems to address a lot of the stuff that we're dealing with today. And seems in sync with the growing sustainability/slow food movement. And you know, YOU were ahead of the curve in working to document them!
Taj: Exactly—and that was at the heart of what Steiner was interested in addressing through his life and work. The fact that society is often, somehow, in opposition to the freedom that we should experience and participate in as human beings.
Jen: Because you did this project a while ago, correct? 2004-5ish? When was the book published?
Taj: Well, ahead of the curve? Not really. What fascinates me about this 'movement' is that it simply suggests a reversion back to practices that sustained agriculture (and much of the human race) for thousands of years. Yes, I produced most of the work in 2006. The book was published in the fall of 2007, the project really began in '04 when I first took my camera back to the school I attended in my youth. Perhaps even '03 now that I think about it...
Jen: Ahead of the curve in the sense that it seems prescient that you started documenting a lifestyle that there's a recent huge interest in. Of course I cast a gimlet eye on that interest... hopefully it won't be a fad!
Taj: Yes, I see what you mean. I too hope this is not a fleeting interest!
Jen: Yea, this summer a lot of people are "farming", even here in NYC! Rooftops and window boxes and stuff. It's kind of amazing.
Taj: As long as these 'natural' (in the truest sense of the word) foods can become ACCESSIBLE, I think the movement possesses the potential to be long-lasting. Now you've hit the nail on the head!
Jen: Right, one of the things that I've found frustrating about some conversations I've had with foodies is that there's a sense that people don't eat organic because they're not enlightened or lazy or something. And the access is the key.
Taj: It's all about empowering people and communities to grow their own food.
Jen: There's no organic at the bodega in the 'hood, last I checked.
Taj: Yup.
Jen: Right, I guess that is what I mean about you being ahead of the curve. Because it's only recently in the spotlight for a lot of people. But you know, what you've documented includes food/farming but it's not just that, at all, particularly the images we selected today.
Taj: And with regards to 'organic', the FDA now OWNS that word and in order to use it, farmers need to pay thousands of dollars and go through an intense certification process. Yet at the same time, the FDA has opened up all kinds of questionable fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and fungicides that can be used by certified 'organic' farmers, thus further undermining the foundation of the natural foods movement.
Jen: I heard about some new legislation that's being circulated that will make it even harder... is that what you're referring to? Did it get passed? :(
Taj: It's quite scary in my opinion. I'm not sure about the most recent legislation.
Jen: We're back at government stuff again, I think one thing that's so daunting about the idea of change actually happening is how monolithic the government is.
Taj: Amen. I couldn't agree more. But back to your comment about this series of photographs going beyond agriculture...
Jen: Right.
Taj: What I really hoped to get at through producing these images was an exploration of the underlying ideas/concepts that Steiner built all of his work from.
Jen: Well what I get is a sense of community.
Taj: Namely, that through everything we do as human beings, we should seek to better the world, ourselves and society.
Jen: And a connection that goes beyond family.
Taj: Yes, community is central to this process.
Jen: My little armchair theory about contemporary culture is that with religion being less central we've lost a major driver of community responsibility. But I do find it sad/frustrating that our world from Reagan forward—we're all about self-sufficiency.
Taj: Well, I think that it's all about a recognition/realization that we are small pieces of a much larger whole. Now whether or not we define 'whole' as transcending the physical world, is totally up to the individual.
Jen: Sort of broadly speaking. Well I think that's some of the appeal of Steiner to me, it's easier for me to wrap my head around honoring the earth and others around me, rather than thinking about some dude in the sky in flowing robes.
Taj: It's interesting, Steiner's biodynamic agricultural method came out of many of his followers begging him to address the negative effects that farmers in Europe were beginning to notice as a direct result of the beginning of industrialized farming. something affecting everyone...
ha!
Jen: Ok but yea, BIODYNAMIC, that word! Anil, one of the weekend-in-the-country sojourners, is a punny guy. We had a field day with the term. I like how its meaning breaks down. But it's kind of a sitting duck from a make-fun-ability perspective. :D
Taj: Steiner was a devout Christian and often times I felt that his religious beliefs got in the way of more tangible forms of communicating his ideas. Having said this, he was a very open-minded person who borrowed from all of the major faith traditions when formulating various aspects of his philosophy.
Jen: See now I want to dig into more about Steiner because he sounds like a righteous dude. Do you know if there's a good bio about him? One maybe NOT by an acolyte?
Taj: There is a TON written about him but so much of it is very incestuous.
Jen: Right, I got that even from Wikipedia! I will dig around.
Taj: I have read some biographical essays, etc. and can e-mail some to you.
Jen: Yay, thanks. So, let's get back to the pix again
Taj: Anthroposophy is very 'niche' in a way, yet addresses such universal concepts. The irony is thick.
Jen: I said connectedness and community is what I get from them, and you know, I've been looking at the work since the book came out. (anthroposophy: another sitting duck word!)
Taj: I like that that's what you get from the pictures. There is an interesting phenomenon right now wherein Waldorf education is slowly being incorporated into some public charter schools.
Jen: Wow! That is cool... wholesale or in part?
Taj: I love this because it suggests that perhaps the insular nature of the 'movement' is changing, branching out in part. It's experimental right now from what I understand but has been widely successful in the test schools and there is a hope of expansion.
Jen: Right I guess that's the slowly being integrated thing! Seems our education is due for a bit of an overhaul, so that's good to hear.

Meeting space, Santa Fe, New Mexico by Taj Forer

Taj: Yes, I agree. Maybe we can start by reinstating recess for shit's sake!
Jen: Hahah. OK, so we should wrap up for the NL.
Taj: Play is a basic part of child development!
Jen: I myself am agnostic AT BEST, maybe even an atheist, so I don't lament a less religion-focused culture.
What are you working on right now?
Taj: I almost hate to talk about it publicly because it is very difficult to articulate the subtle nature of the work through language (and that's actually part of what drew me to begin making the work) but...
Jen: We don't HAVE to. But now I'm burning with curiosity of course. :D ... the suspense is killing me! :D
Taj: Well, not to get too into it because I could go on all day, but I have been fascinated by the fact that for the vast majority of human existence (taking it WAY back...) our race has sustained itself through practices that we, contemporary people, have termed 'hunter gatherer.' Perceiving industrialization as commencing with the dawn of agriculture, we have only departed from the hunter-gatherer way of existing very recently. So, my work is an examination of this way of life but in a very non-documentary way.
Jen: (I am really glad to hear that someone else is thinking about this crazy stuff). The post-hunter/gatherer way of life you mean?
Taj: My new work is somewhat typological (although I try not to use that highly charged photographic term) in that it represents many of the objects and actions associated with basic survival practices.
Jen: Ah interesting. Hrm. I cannot wait to see!
Taj: I have been spending a lot of time learning how to live off of the land in the most simple ways imaginable and I have been photographing this process so as to suggest, via the visual language (which has the capacity for transcending linguistic barriers) these nearly 'lost' ways of being.
Jen: Nice, it sounds super interesting, and it seems like a natural progression. (or should I say regression?) from Threefold Sun.
Taj: ha
Jen: Oh also just super quick—the boots/raincoats—outside a Waldorf school?
Taj: Yes, an interesting school actually.
Jen: I love that photo so much because on a surface level it's just delicious eye-candy.
Taj: It's an old public school that the city of San Diego no longer wanted to use so it rents to the Waldorf school for a good price.
Jen: But also it has such a wonderful cozy warmth about it, and a nostalgia.
Taj: I find that so lovely and metaphorical...
Jen: I mean it has a soundtrack in my mind, when I look at it.
Taj: Thanks. That image seems to resonate with many.
Jen: That is actually super interesting/great to know. And then of course the chalkboard poem—
Taj: Oh, please tell me about the soundtrack!
Jen: which is ever more charming b/c of its small errors.
Taj: Yes, the flaws MAKE that image for me.
Jen: Well, the soundtrack is that distinctive din of kids in a school yard, and oddly the ocean, for some reason, in the background.
Taj: So representative of the whole movement: beautiful, well intentioned but, like anything worth a damn, also flawed. Like people!
Jen: Which is something I thought of before knowing it was taken in SD.
Taj: Cool.
Jen: And there's a film too.
Taj: That just about sums up the literal soundtrack when I was making the image.
Jen: A tangle of kids and a teacher sitting on her haunches trying to hold a kid still and get her into her slicker.
Taj: You got it.
Jen: It's comfortable and nostalgic, even though it's not something I ever experienced. I mean I think my teacher was kind like that, in pre-school, but I grew up in Queens NYC! heh. OK. This is super fun, I actually love talking to the artist about an image and finding out that the little stories I make up make sense. Sometimes they make no sense at all, which is fine too. But I can't lie, I enjoy being right. ;)
Taj: Nice. I always enjoy talking about the work as it often leads to new discoveries/ways of thinking about my own images and process.
Jen: Well, we can always talk more, right now I am going to write an intro... Yea we're a little late, so I gotta hustle like mad.

Continue reading "Jen + Taj Talk Shop" »

Issue 4 of The Exposure Project book just came out and features the work of two awesome 20x200 edition makers: Carlo Van de Roer and Brian Ulrich (whose essay is included).

Though the name gives it away, here's the official word on the mission of the Exposure Project:

The Exposure Project is a collection of emerging photographers taking an active approach in exposing and promoting new talent through exhibition, publication and online exposure. Formed in the fall of 2005, the goal of the project is to provide support, inspiration and community-based collaboration to emerging talent. Since its inception, The Exposure Project has hosted numerous exhibitions, has had online showcases, and has self-published 3 photo books.

This is a very exciting time for both Carlo and Brian. In addition to being part of the newest Exposure Project release, Carlo's fifth and sixth 20x200 editions were released last week, Brian's one and only 20x200 edition is entirely sold out but his piece Powerhouse Gym is currently on view in the Summer Reading exhibition at the JBG.

Issue Four of the Exposure Project book is available to order online but they also provide an abridged PDF for your viewing-before-you-buy pleasure. Congratulations to the Exposure Project, Carlo, Brian and all the artists involved on a fabulous new issue!

Make that sticky notes, folders and pencil holders all emblazoned with delightful Linzie Hunter illustrations! Check them all out here, and then take yourself on a little trip to her website, and see more of what she's been up to.

Walking through our inventory, I am surprised to see that we still have a small quantity of two of her edition prints available:

Left: Say Goodbye
Right: Boundless
Her latest edition print, Coney, sold out in a hot second.

Linzie also keeps a blog and a bubbly flickr stream.

Sneak peak of one of Fernanda Cohen's Gap (PRODUCT) RED t-shirt designs

20x200 illustrator Fernanda Cohen recently completed designs for 4 t-shirts for Gap (PRODUCT) RED. The shirts will be out this fall, and I'll keep you posted on exactly when. In the meanwhile, visit her site for more brilliant, bold and playful illustrations.

Fernanda's 20x200 edition: Hot Dog and I is available to you here in all three sizes.

Untitled, Jetty (Snow), 2008 by Chris Ballantyne

Just this past Monday Kika let you know that 20x200 artist Chris Ballantyne will be showing at the Mixed Greens 10th Anniversary Exhibition (along with other 20x200 stars Coke O'Neal and Ann Tarantino), and this very Wednesday I'm here to let you know that Chris was featured in the July issue of Guernica Magazine, a biweekly magazine of art and politics.

From Guernica:

With shrewd restraint, Ballantyne accentuates the antisocial effects of our built environment with a hint of humor and plenty of ambiguity. A curious emptiness permeates the work. Graphically rendered buildings, pools, parking lots, and fences take on new meanings and amplified significance, isolated on flat fields of color.

Read the full feature here, and if you're in NYC, don't miss Chris tomorrow at Mixed Greens!

10th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
Opening reception: July 9th, 12-6pm
Mixed Greens
531 West 26th Street, btw 10th & 11th Streets
First Floor | NYC

Chris has two edition prints available to you:
Untitled, Neighborhood (Overgrown) and Untitled, Tidal Bore (Surfer).

Velké Karlovice #1, 21/6/2009 13:48 from Bert Teunissen's series Domestic Landscapes

Nazdar collectors! Dutch photographer Bert Teunissen has recently returned from the Czech Republic to add new photographs to his archive of touching portraits of Europeans in their homes. Bert has been working on this series for over a decade, and describes the project thusly:

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.

View the series 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.

Our darling Noah is a blue blood blogger. His popularity on Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter has granted him entrée onto PDN's The Five Biggest Photographers on the Internet list. Noah is in comfortable company with David Hobby, Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, Christopher Becker and Jim MacMillan. Not sure who they are? Read all about them--and Noah-- here.

See more of Noah's work on his site and on his blog. Follow Noah on Twitter here.

Noah's 20x200 edition print has limited quantities available: Untitled (LA20070805)

Happy Monday, collectors! 20x200 darling (and Summer '06 Hot Shot) Kate Bingaman-Burt has dutifully documented her daily consumption for close to ten years. If you are lucky enough to live in Portland, drop by Reading Frenzy this Thursday, July 2nd at 6pm and Kate will help you start your own consumption collection by drawing something you bought that day for free! The free drawing frenzy is part of Kate's solo show, Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?, which will continue for the entire merry month of July.

Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?
Reading Frenzy
921 SW Oak St.
Portland, OR

Kate's site, Obsessive Consumption.
Kate's editions, I Bought All of These and Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Carts #1 on 20x200.
Kate in the recently released documentary, Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design.
Kate's exhibit at Jen Bekman Gallery.

Giant Sculpture, 2009 by Megan Whitmarsh

Megan Whitmarsh, the "totally badass, awesome, inspiring and intelligent" artist (as described by Jen) is currently in a group show, Strips, Scripts and Scapes: Contemporary Comix in Southern California, at the Riverside Art Museum. The exhibition features artists who are essentially "uncategorizable" and have "no guidelines to delineate their work beyond their interest in the intersection of contemporary art, storytelling and flirting with comic strip conventions".

The show will have a reception this Saturday, June 27, 7 - 9pm, and will remain on view through August 22nd.

Strips, Scripts and Scapes: Contemporary Comix in Southern California
RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM
3425 Mission Inn Ave
Riverside, CA

Megan also has a new book, Yeti Logic featuring a yeti who lives in a capricious world available at Spoonbill & Sugartown, or online here.

Megan's two 20x200 edition prints, Trash Mountain and Color Work Station, are available to you in all three edition sizes.

20x200 artist, Todd St. John, has collaborated with Incase to design an iPhone 3G slider case and computer sleeve in faux bois splendor:

HunterGatherer Sleeve and Slider Case available here

St. John's design, illustration, animation and production studio, Hunter Gatherer, was invited to take participate in Incase's exclusive Arkitip line -- "a project aimed at delivering artistically embellished Apple products to users who have an appreciation for the creative arts and technology". Other artists who have designed for Arkitip include KRINK, Steven Harrington, and Parra.

Amazingly, we still have prints of Todd's stylish faux bois 20x200 edition Untitled (Black Blocks) available in all sizes.

Todd's sites:
http://www.toddstjohn.com/
http://www.huntergatherer.net/
http://www.greenlady.com/
http://www.iglooshop.com/

Image of Jason's very own typewriter from his book, Eleven of My Things and One of Yours

Good news for a rainy day! Jason Polan has a new book!

From the press release:

Eleven of My Things and One of Yours is a new zine by Jason Polan that features eleven drawings of the artist’s favorite things and a blank space at the end for one more thing. Adding a performative twist, Jason will complete the book for each new buyer, drawing the buyer's favorite thing on the extra page. The book is not complete until the artist draws an image of the buyer’s favorite thing. After the additional drawing, the book becomes One of My Favorite Things and Eleven of His. On Saturday, Printed Matter will act as a stage for Polan to carry out the final production of this zine. Lemonade and snack cakes will also be served in celebration. Please come and bring one of your favorite things for Jason to draw!

Lemonade, snack cakes and Jason? Um, yes please! I'll see you there!

The books will be sold for a mere $20!
Saturday, June 20, 2009 @ Printed Matter, Inc. | 195 10th Avenue
2:00 to 4:00pm

Jason Polan's 20x200 editions:
Insects and Myriapods at The American Museum of Natural History
Sea Creatures at The American Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs at The American Museum of Natural History
132 Birds at The American Museum of Natural History
Every Person in New York
Hand Project

Jason Polan's sites:
Jason Polan
The Drawing Project
Every Person in New York
The 53rd Street Biological Society

Howon-Dong by Hosang Park

Hosang Park, talented 20x200 artist whose two images Uman-Dong and Howon-Dong were released on our site in March has just received another much deserved accolade. In addition to being selected as one of two Hey, Hot Shot! Ne Plus Ultras to receive representation at Jen Bekman Gallery at the beginning of this month, we just received word that his work has been chosen for the PDN Photo Annual 2009!

His image Howon-Dong was selected to the Personal Work category in the photography annual alongside Steven Wilkes, Lauren Greenfield, and Christoph Gielen. To view his work as well as many other talented winners, check out the PDN online gallery

A whole-hearted congratulations to Hosang! Also, you can still purchase this winning image, as well as Uman-Dong on 20x200.

Just a while ago I was walking through the archives and wrote about edition prints that shared similar themes. Our collection of art(ists) often have complimentary relationships with others -- be it a penchant for text, color palate, composition, or rhythm. So, in the spirit celebrating similarity (and contrast) I present you with three more twosomes:

Kent Rogowski and Chad Muthard

Untitled #10 by Kent Rogowski
Choose your print size here

The Drive with Christine by Chad Muthard
Choose your print size here

Dustin Amery Hostetler and Superdeluxe

Color Study #4 by Dustin Amery Hostetler (UPSO)
Choose your print size here

Diamonds by Superdeluxe (Adrienne Wong and Karin Spraggs)
Choose your print size here

Don Hammerman and Mark Ulriksen

Rawlings by Don Hamerman
Choose your print size here

The Babe in the Negro Leagues by Mark Ulriksen
Choose your print size here

Moo Cow by Andrew Hetherington

Yesterday Matthew Furman posted a short and sweet interview with Andrew Hetherington in which I read of our shared passions for snow globe collecting and Martin Parr. Read the full interview here.

Andrew's delightful edition print, Moo Cow, is available in our large edition size for $400 off, thanks to our RIDONK sale, now until 11:59 this evening! Hurry hurry!

Torn by Jonathan Allen

Namaste collectors! By now you are well informed about the RIDONK sale that is on now until 11:59 Tuesday evening. Hopefully you've browsed our archives and have found an edition or two to call your very own. If not, might I suggest the above Jonathan Allen edition -- it is available to you in all three sizes.

Jonathan recently made it into the virtual pages of Vogue in a feature that paired party dresses with fine art:

Jonathan Allen's De plus en plus, 2009 is suggested to be worn alongside this fancy pink frock.

The Vogue feature is in support of the annual Whitney Art Party, a benefit fête for the Whitney Independent Study Program. The festivities will be held this Wednesday, June 17th with a silent auction of original and limited edition work from these illustrious artists. Before you step out, purchase your tickets here.

City Slow Down illustration by Fernanda Cohen for Glamour, Germany

Happy Friday, collectors! Today I'm happy to tell you what is new with one of our wonderfully talented and delightful artists, Fernanda Cohen.

First, Fernanda was featured in 3x3 Magazine's Pro Show, with these two images:

Left: Cross-pollinated Imagination, 2008
Right: Screaming Friends, 2008

Fernanda is originally from Argentina, and was commissioned by the super hip Argentine ad agency, Furia World, to design a poster for the City of Buenos Aires. Fernanda was assigned to illustrate the neighborhood of Agronomia:

Last year I interviewed the bubbly Fernanda, and if you missed it, you can read it here. Fernanda's 20x200 edition print, Hot Dog and I, is available to you here in all three sizes.

Just can't get enough of Fer? Visit her site for more sunshine.

A sampling of sketches that Jason has made for his ongoing series Every Person in New York

Far too many moons have passed since I last wrote about the hugely talented and industrious Mr. Jason Polan. I'm happy to put an end to this dry spell and let you know that Jason was featured in the New York Observer today.

Musing on his ambitious project to draw every person in New York, Jason opined, “It’s kind of forever, and I think I’m willing to work on it forever”. Amen.

Check Jason's blog for news about his latest projects; there's always something awesome going on that will make you wonder what deal Jason struck to get extra hours in his days.

Jason Polan's 20x200 editions:
Insects and Myriapods at The American Museum of Natural History
Sea Creatures at The American Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs at The American Museum of Natural History
132 Birds at The American Museum of Natural History
Every Person in New York
Hand Project

Jason Polan's sites:
Jason Polan
The Drawing Project
Every Person in New York
The 53rd Street Biological Society

Pool by Katie Baum's series Chasing Memory

Hello California collectors! Last month we offered two edition prints from photographer Katie Baum. Both images were from her series, Chasing Memory, which, in Katie's words, "remember the past and record it". Images from this nostalgic body of work will be featured in a group exhibition, Perceive and Connect, at the Berkeley Art Center.

Perceive & Connect, will open this Saturday, June 13th with a reception for the artists from 5.30 to 7.30 p.m.

Perceive and Connect: Katie Baum, Jeanine Briggs and Indira Martina Morre
Berkeley Art Center
1275 Walnut Street
Berkeley, CA 94709

Katie's two edition prints, Peeps and Gumball Machine, are available in dwindling supply, so make haste! More images can be viewed at Kate's site.

Ciao!
I like contrast, so a little bit of snow in June is perfectly fine with me, especially when it comes in the form of a Paula McCartney photograph. Last year Paula won a McKnight Artist Fellowships in Photography, and has made new work as a result,A Field Guide to Snow and Ice, which she will be showing this month in Minneapolis. The opening reception is this Friday June 12, 7-9 pm, and an artist talk will follow on Thursday July 16, 6:30 pm.

2007-2008 McKnight Artist Fellowships in Photography
June 12-Aug 1, 2009
Franklin Art Works
1021 E Franklin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55404

Last year we offered an edition of Snowfall #6 from this series:

Choose your print size here.

More images from the series can also be viewed on Paula's website.

Image from Michael David Murphy's R.I.P. USA series

Buongiorno amici!

Three cheers for Atlanta-based documentary photographer Michael David Murphy! Michael was featured on the Art21 blog yesterday. Read (and see) it here.

Michael has two 20x200 edition prints available to you, Jim Crow Road, and Super Rally, So Help Me.

Michael keeps a photography blog here, as well as an image free blog that chronicles the photographs that he didn't take: Unphotographable. Want more? Read the conversation that Liz Kuball shared with Michael here.

Ciao collectors! 20x200 artist Wendy Heldmann has a show opening this Thursday, June 4 from 6-8 pm at Nancy Margolis Gallery.

From the press release:

Crumbled brick, shattered panes of glass and disjointed buildings against a desolate winter landscape, show the devastation nature can bring to man-made invention. Heldmann used source material from the 1964 earthquake in Anchorage, and the San Francisco Lomo Prieta quake. In Heldmann’s Library series, she paints the interiors of libraries post-earthquake; tomes scattered and strewn open across still-standing aisles. The narrow visual focus of the paintings, leads towards exterior windows, hinting at the calm sky, in contrast to the disordered man-made interior.

The show will run from June 4th - August 15th.

Nancy Margolis Gallery
523 W 25th Street NY

Wendy's 20x200 edition print, Darkness moves, is from her Library series. View more of Wendy's paintings on her website.

Pillar Garden, The Courts, 2004 by Beth Dow

Beloved 20x200 photographer Beth Dow is the star of this week's Full Frame feature on the GlobalPost. Watch Beth eloquently narrate a slide show of images from her English and Italian garden series here.

Beth's 20x200 edition prints:
Bags
Clearing, Wakehurst Place
AAA Editions

Beth is represented by Jen Bekman Gallery. Images from her past solo shows, Fieldwork, and Ruins, can be seen here.

Madison, WI 2005 bu Brian Ulrich

Chicago-based photographer (and recent Guggenheim Fellowship recipient!) Brian Ulrich has a solo show of images from his Copia series, Thrift and Dark Stores, on view now through July 3 at Julie Saul Gallery.

From the press release:

Ulrich began his Copia series after 9/11 when President Bush encouraged Americans to shop as a patriotic gesture to boost the economy. He pictured the abundant merchandise in stores and shoppers' fascination with the goods. As the decade progressed Ulrich has enlarged his theme to embrace thrift stores and finally the new landscape of closed and derelict malls and big box stores. Ulrich's image Madison, Wisconsin 2005 of a retail space filled with empty hangers signals the end of a cycle, and is pictured on the cover of the May 2009 issue of Photograph with an essay by Lyle Rexer who writes, "Ulrich reveals the chaotic ass-end of capitalism”. Thrift looks at the "last -stop repositories" where goods are sent to die at even more discounted prices. These chaotic dumping grounds of discarded computers and gym shoes raise the question, "where do we go from here?" At the same time the Dark Stores have an almost apocalyptic quality signally and end a new beginning.

Brian Ulrich
Thrift and Dark Stores
May 28- July 3, 2009
Julie Saul Gallery
535 West 22 Street | 6th Floor | New York

If you haven't had a chance, have a look at his photo essay, Stores That Are No More, on TIME magazine's website. The essay features images from Brian's ongoing Copia series which "explore the haunted shells of America's devastated retail landscape".

Brian's website.

Noah Kalina's photos almost always make my heart jump, and I was happy to see that the above photo was given just attention as the Pic of the Night on Gawker today tonight. Hooray for Noah!

While I have your attention, allow me to remind you that Noah is a beloved 20x200 artist and Summer '05 Hot Shot, who recently launched an eponymously titled magazine, Kalina Magazine. Each issue will feature new work from Kalina's photography projects.

His first two issues are available here.

See more of Noah's work here and here.

Noah's 20x200 edition print has limited quantities available: Untitled (LA20070805)

UPDATE! I just spied this excellent remix ( I love the idea of a photography remix, don't you?) on yay!everyday by Toko Design:

Image by Michael Lundgren from his series Transfigurations

Three cheers for landscape photographer Michael Lundgren! Michael received a Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers 2009 award from the Magenta Foundation, and will have work in two group shows in the UK this Summer! The first show will be in London's Victoria & Albert Museum: A History of Photography; and the second show, Photography is Dead, will be part of Rhubarb-Rhubarb's 10 year anniversary.

Sales from one of Michael's two 20x200 edition prints, Ironwood at Dusk, directly benefit the wonderful Radius Books, who published Michael's first monograph, Transfigurations, last Fall.

The above image is from a series Michael worked on for the city of Phoenix Public Art Project, entitled Mid-Century Marvels. The work has been published as a postcard booklet, which you can grab for free, so long as you can get yourself to the City of Phoenix's Office of Arts & Culture.

Michael's 20x200 edition prints Yuha Basin and Ironwood at Dusk won't remain in our inventory for long, so make haste, collectors!

View more of Michael’s work at his website

iSketch image by Jorge Colombo

Happy Memorial Day Monday, collectors!

20x200 artist, Jorge Colombo, will see one of his iPhone sketches appear on the next cover of the New Yorker! ABC News interviewed him this weekend, and the New Yorker also has a video of Jorge working and discussing his process. Jorge gives 20x200 a shout out about his four edition prints that are available right here. I suspect they will not be around much longer, so make haste!

From the New Yorker:

Colombo’s phone drawing is very much in the tradition of a certain kind of New Yorker cover, and he doesn’t see the fact that it’s a virtual finger painting as such a big deal. “Imagine twenty years ago, writing about these people who are sending these letters on their computer.” But watching the video playback has made him aware that how he draws a picture can tell a story, and he’s hoping to build suspense as he builds up layers of color and shape.

More good Jorge news--he will have a new drawing each week on newyorker.com.

Jorge's 20x200 edition prints:
iSketch140
iSketch084
iSketch104
iSketch098

Jorge's site

Praia Piquinia 14/08/06 16h04

Bonjour New York collectors!
Photographer Christian Chaize will open a solo show, Praia Piquinia, at Jen Bekman Gallery this Wednesday, May 20th. There will be an opening reception from 6 - 8pm, so be sure to drop by and see the luxuriously lush and large series of Portuguese sunbathers shot unaware.

From Christian's statement:

Five years ago, Portugal did present itself as a new landscape in my life - both literally and metaphorically. Since then, I have photographed exclusively along a very small stretch of its southern coastline. Returning to this specific place, I've sought out its nuances. In doing so, I have peeled back layers of how I see, and how I experience this magical environment.

Read the press release here.

The show will be on view through July 11th.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street | NYC

View more of Christian's photos on his gallery page, or on his site.

Untitled (I'm an island of such great complexity)
by Mike Monteiro

Artist Mike Monteiro is currently in a group show curated by Timothy Buckwalter at Pharmaka in LA. The show, My Certain Fate, features photography, painting, sculpture and text-based works all inspired by the fine art of making a mix tape.

From the press release:

Featuring more than 65 works from 28 U.S. and international artists, My Certain Fate explores and connects the feelings emoting from each piece to create an overarching narrative. Bubbling to the surface of a photo is a mysterious tale of yearning and denial. A drawing begins to crack under the weight of its own smugness. A crisp Miminalist painting offers a space to breathe, a break in the mix. Lurking beneath a sculpture is a less than obvious tale of redemption. The title for the exhibition is excerpted from one of Buckwalter’s favorite songs, “That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate” on Mission of Burma’s 1982 album “Vs. “ - a track that exudes a boatload of melancholia mixed with the possibility for love through self-sacrifice.

My Certain Fate runs through June 6th.

Pharmaka | 101 West 5th Street | LA, CA

Here is a sneak peak:

The Box (Texas) by Coke Wisdom O'Neal

20x200 photographer, Coke Wisdom O'Neal recently visited 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 gallery owner, Paige West, and has returned with many new images that are currently on view at Mixed Greens.

In this week's Village Voice, art critic Robert Shuster gives kudos to O'Neal's new work, calling his images "strikingly crisp". Read the review here. Also enjoy the above video hat Coke has posted about the time he spent making the images in Texas.

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.

inside the photographers_studio from andrew hetherington on Vimeo.

Photographer Andrew Hetherington has been making clever little videos of the visits he makes to fellow photographers studios. In the video above he drops by Alec Soth's space. Once you watch one, you'll want to watch them all, and you can do so by visiting Hetherington's blog What the jackanory? for more voyeristic goodness.

Happy Cinco de Mayo, collectors! Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 6, there will be a Book Launch and Artists Reception for Nymphoto's new tome, Conversations Volume 1, a compilation of interviews with women photographers. Many of the interviewees have appeared on 20x200 and/or have been anointed Hot Shots.

The reception will feature work from Michele Abeles, Juliana Beasley, Rona Chang, Nina Büsing Corvallo, Candace Gottschalk, Jessica M. Kaufman, Klea McKenna, Michal Chelbin, Talia Greene, Maria Passarotti, Susana Raab, Emily Shur, Tema Stauffer, Jane Tam, Garie Waltzer & Jennifer Williams.

Nymphoto: Conversations Volume 1
Group Show III
Sasha Wolf Gallery
10 Leonard Street
New York, NY
May 6 – 20, 2009

I Bought All of These
by Kate Bingaman-Burt
Choose your print size here

Meighan O’Toole of My Love For You Is A Stampede of Horses makes her curatorial debut with a group show, You've Got Light in Your Eyes, at at Needles + Pens Gallery in San Francisco. Two 20x200 darlings, Kate Bingaman-Burt and Mike Perry are in the mix.

You've Got Light in Your Eyes | A group show curated by Meighan O'Toole
Needles + Pens
3253 16th Street
SF, CA

On display through June 28th, 2009

Other artists include: 1911, Jill Bliss, Will Bryant, Kime Buzzelli, John Casey, Lisa Congdon, Liam Devowski, Bill Dunlap, Kenn Goodall, Maxwell Loren Holyoke Hirsh, Know Hope, Olivia Jeffries, Aidan Koch, Ashley Lande Brown, Jeremiah Maddock, Leslie Martinez, Terri Olsen Von Schaub, Shannon Rankin, and Dan Szymanowski.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

High Lonesome, 2007 by William Crump

Ciao collectors! Not so long ago I let you Californian denizens know that 20x200 artist, William Crump, opened a solo show, Lonesome Ghosts, at LA's LittleBird Gallery. You might say a line could be drawn from William's exposure here on 20x200, and the attention of the curator at Little Bird. We're pleased to have reccomended him, and yesterday the LA Times did the same:

Crump’s work feels vaguely anachronistic, like the so-called antiquarian avant-garde photographers who favor obsolete techniques but whose images often contain contemporary references. Mainly, the New York-based artist’s L.A. debut reads as a thoughtful meditation on the discrepancies between external and internal journeys, the real and the ideal.

Read the full review here, and if you're in the neighborhood do drop in.

Lonesome Ghosts
March 14-April 8, 2009
LittleBird Gallery
3195 Glendale Blvd.
LA, CA

William's two 20x200 edition prints, The Mountain of Westward Expansion, and The Mountain of Tomorrow's Sunrise, are still available in all three sizes.

Linzie Hunter's Lettering Sketchbook

When was the last time you sang your ABC's? It's likely to have been decades ago unless you have young children or work as a preschool art teacher, like me. I'm sure I've sung my ABC's dozens of times since the start of the year, and I never ever tire of viewing Linzie Hunter's visual rendition of them. I want to sing them aloud now, much to the bewilderment of the small dog resting on my lap. Typography Served scanned all of Linzie's letters up-close for you to ogle here.

Shockingly we still have a small quantity of two of her edition prints available, Boundless and Say Goodbye.

Frank's Nursery, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2008, by Brian Ulrich

20x200 photographer Brian Ulrich has a photo essay, Stores That Are No More, on TIME magazine's website this month. His documentary images "explore the haunted shells of America's devastated retail landscape," and immediately remind me of a youth spent traveling past strip mall after strip mall of abandoned Caldor's, Acme's and Boscov's.

Brian is presently in a group show, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, at the Yale School of Architecture which will remain on view through May 10th.

Now hear this.
20x200 artist Tommy Perman is also a musician in the Scottish collective / experimental pop band, FOUND. Tommy and his bandmates are on a short US tour, and will be performing two dates in NYC this week. Tuesday, Mach 24th @ Fontana’s, and Wednesday, March 25th @ Rockwood Music Hall. I've been listening to their new EP, The Fidelities, all afternoon and I cannot stop. I invite you to do the same here, or even better at one of their shows. Have a look at their scruffy Scottish adorableness on their flickr stream, then add them as facebook friends.

Tommy also has a 20x200 edition print available for you: Trucks, Seattle

Matthew, Main Street, Binghamton NY, 2008 by Tema Stauffer

Hello NYC collectors! I know I've mentioned it before, but somewhere between now and April 18th you should find time to check out Tema Stauffer and Francesca Romeo's show at DCFA. The show is garnering a lot of praise, including a review by Vince Aletti in The New Yorker this week:

These two young photographers approach portraiture from very different angles, but because their pictures are similarly fraught, complex, and compelling they complement each other nicely. Romeo, whose subjects are mostly friends and lovers on New York’s bohemian fringe, combines intimacy and theatricality in pictures that make the most of available light, dark shadows, and tattooed flesh. Stauffer photographs strangers—young men she meets on the street of Binghamton, New York, who appear at once rebellious and vulnerable. This volatile combination is kicked up a notch by erotic tension, but Stauffer is tender rather than confrontational, and her work looks beyond the boys’ cool affect to something warmer.

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
511 West 25th Street, #506
NYC

View images from Tema's 2004 show, American Stills, at Jen Bekman Gallery over here, read
Tema's blog, and see more of her images on her site.
Purchase Tema's 20x200 edition prints:
Palm Aire
White Ice

Sheila E., 2009, by Fernanda Cohen

Happy Friday, collectors! Spring sprung with snow in NYC today, but I've got some sunshine for you in the form of Fernanda Cohen! I love catching up with Fernanda, especially when Miss Sheila E. is involved! Impossibly Sheila E. has been the topic of more than one conversation of mine this week. Something good must be going on! Fernada made the above illustration of the eternally foxy drumming goddess for the Cut to the Drummer opening in Canada last month.

"Screaming Friends," is from a personal project,"Dog's Best Friend," which earned Fernanda an Honorable Mention from the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles IW 47 competition.

This illustration was recently completed for Glamour, Germany:

Fernanda has also illustrated a tote bag for the Brooklyn art collective Third Ward:

Presently Miss Fernanda is hard at work designing 4 t-shirts for Gap (PRODUCT) RED. I'll keep you posted on that. In the meanwhile, visit her site for more brilliant, bold and playful illustrations.

Fernanda's 20x200 edition: Hot Dog and I is available to you here in all three sizes.

Breath Portrait (pink drop) by Ann Tarantino

20x200 artist Ann Tarantino and collaborator Kate McGraw are working on an "improvisational wall drawing and video installation" at Flashpoint in DC. The piece will be on view from March 19 to April 17.

From the press release:

Having collaborated on works on paper for the past two years, the artists will now explore the interaction of their work with an architectural space by working directly on the gallery walls. With its focus on process and impermanence, Workbook marks a turning point in their collaboration, while transforming the gallery into a temporary studio. Using techniques both planned and improvised, the artists will engage in a mark-making exchange that will run the entire length of the gallery. Each artist will make marks familiar to her own stylistic vocabulary, but will also borrow materials and stylistic conventions from the other artist. The final, mammoth artwork will stretch across the gallery walls like a book, a nonlinear narrative waiting to be read and experienced by the audience.

Images of Kate and Ann in action

Kate McGraw & Ann Tarantino: Workbook
March 19 – April 17, 2009
Opening reception: Thursday, March 19: 6-8pm
Video Launch: Saturday, March 28: 6-9pm
Gallery at Flashpoint
916 G Street, NW
Washington, DC

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

If you missed the lively interview I posted with Ann, read it here.

Ann's 20x200 print: Breath Portrait (favorite colors) has limited quantities available in medium and large edition sizes.

Urban Storm, 2008 by Aili Schmeltz

"Visual mashups" is how Aili Schmetz's work is described in one of the three group exhibitions she is in at this very moment. I love a good mashup, and cannot think of a better way to describe the way her work operates. Presently, Aili is in three shows--two in NY, at Satori in Manhattan and Lumenhouse in Brooklyn, and one in San Francisco at Gallery Arcane. All three shows continue through March 29th.

Invisible Duct Tape
Satori Gallery
164 Stanton Street
New York, New York

Abstractions and Contractions
Lumenhouse
47 Beaver Street
Brooklyn, New York

Sweet & Low: Optimism in a Pessimistic Age
Gallery Arcane
575 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA

Aili's two 20x200 edition prints, Embedded, and Radar, are available in small supply.

Painting from the Camper-bike Project by Kevin Cyr

Work from 20x200 artist Kevin Cyr will be in a group show opening this Wednesday, March 18th, at Greene Contemporary in the Lower East Side. The show, Welcome to My World, was curated by Jonathan Greene, and will include work by Andrew Junge, Billy Maker, Shawn Pettersen and Jean-Pierre Roy.

From the press release:

The artists in Welcome to My World share similar approaches to their process, inspired by imagination to reinvent personal experiences, cultural identity, and fantasies into a visual language. The ad hoc combination of references and materials invites the viewer to enter both miniature and grandiose imaginary environments and situations, setting off on a journey of their own.

The show will continue through April 19th.

Welcome to My World
Greene Contemporary
9 Clinton Street
New York, NY

Kevin's two 20x200 edition prints, Koolman and Berry are still available in very limited quantities, so hop to it!

The one and only Jason Polan will be drawing live at Partners & Spade today Saturday, March 14th. Everything you need to know about the event is spelled out for you in the darling drawing above by Mr. Polan. The folks behind P&S are clearly clever--I'm already busy thinking about what I'll request Jason to draw for me. I'm also looking forward to seeing what the shop has to offer. Jason's drawing of their complete inventory has me quite intrigued.

See you there, or rather, here:
Partners & Spade
40 Great Jones Street
NYC

Lonesome Ghost, 2008 by William Crump

Californian collectors! 20x200 artist, William Crump, will open a solo show, Lonesome Ghosts, at LA's LittleBird Gallery this Saturday, March 14th. If you're in the vicinity do swing by and say hello.

Reception, Saturday, March 14th, 7-10pm
March 14-April 8, 2009
LittleBird Gallery
3195 Glendale Blvd.
LA, CA

William's two 20x200 edition prints, The Mountain of Westward Expansion, and The Mountain of Tomorrow's Sunrise, are still available in all three sizes.

Trucks, Seattle by Tommy Perman
Buy one now

Ciao collectors! If you are heading to SXSW (surely you're already planning to see Jen Bekman and friends) try and check out 20x200 artist Tommy Perman. Tommy will be performing four shows with his band, Found. Details here.

Tommy's websites are numerous, but start here, I know from past experience that one could spend the better part of a day exploring his projects.

20x200 artists Megan Whitmarsh and Mike Perry have teamed up with 24 artists to collaborate on an Animal Alphabet poster to benefit Unicef. Each of the 26 artists created one letter formed as a real or imagined animal.
Check this site for each letter to be released as a single limited edition poster.

Megan Whitmarsh's 20x200 edition prints:
Trash Mountain
Color Work Station
Mike Perry's edition print:
Optical-01

20x200 artist and Summer '05 Hot Shot, Noah Kalina, recently launched an eponymously titled magazine, Kalina Magazine. Each issue will feature new work from Kalina's photography projects.

Issue #1, Why Won't You Love Me, is available now.

See more of Noah's work here and here.

Noah's 20x200 edition print has limited quantities available: Untitled (LA20070805)

Snezhana Backstage, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2007 by Rachel Papo

On the train going home, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2006 by Rachel Papo

Last month Jen introduced you to the work of Rachel Papo. This month Clamp Art is showing work from two of her series, Desperately Perfect and Serial No. 3817131 through March 14th. Her two edition prints, Nastya Before Class, and Waiting for hand grenade practice, are still available here on your beloved source for excellent and affordable art.

Deperately Perfect and Serial No. 3817131
Clamp Art
521-531 West 25th street
Ground Floor
NY, NY
through March 14, 2009

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

20x200 photographer, Coke Wisdom O'Neal, was featured in the Times this week. The article did not appear in the Arts section, as you might imagine, but rather the Home & Garden section. Coke is succinctly described as "a fine art photographer who builds 22-foot-high wood boxes and shoots people standing inside them," yet the article is focused on the spaciousness and rotating cast of lodgers in his apartment. Coke enjoys an uncommon and enviable home life that reminds me immediately of The Royal Tenenbaums. You see, he lives in an Upper West Side vestige, the Apthorp, with his parents, his son, his son's mother (from whom he is split) a parrot, a dog, and two cats. Now what do you think of that?

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Watch Coke's mother narrate a slide show tour through their home.
Read Tenants of a Vanishing World here.

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

Minds/Mines Don't Care-Daisy Chain of Pipe bombs with self detonator, by Rebecca Loyche

Congratulations to 20x200 artist, Rebecca Loyche, who is currently showing work in a group show, (re)terrain, at vertexList in Brooklyn. (re)terrain will remain on view through April 5th.

From the press release:

(re)terrain examines spaces and places of the heavily urbanized and conflicted world we live in. The exhibition looks at the social production of space as well as the malleable and volatile nature of public space. The works in the exhibition ask us to (re)consider the complex nature of the world we inhabit and the very ground we stand on.

Rebecca Loyche depicts the violent nature of terrain with several large photograms of homemade land-mines and explosive devices. In addition, she delineates the gallery space with blast-kill radiuses of those devices painted directly on the gallery floor- placing the viewer directly in her work.

(re)terrain | March 6th-April 5th
vertexList
138 Bayard Street
Brooklyn, NY

Rebecca's 20x200 edition print:
The Office
Rebecca's site

Big Bambú (detail) 5 x 15 ft (overall), by Doug + Mike Starn

A rare chance to catch a glimpse of the construction and deconstruction of Doug + Mike Starn's Big Bambú will be offered by Wetterling Gallery at the Armory Show this week.

The exhibition offers a keyhole view of the monumental architectural performance they are constructing at their Beacon studio –the former Tallix Foundry. In a constant act of building and dismantling, Big Bambú is erected from 2000 bamboo poles lashed together by a team of several rock-climbers under the direction of the artists. 2 large-scale video wall-projections and a 3D computer generated rendering will show the ongoing construction of the first bamboo tower and its continuous rhizome-like growth.

A series of close-up photographs in various sizes accompany this larger artwork.

Studio image of Big Bambú

The Armory Show
Piers 92 & 94
Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street
New York City
Thursday, March 5 - Saturday, March 7
Noon to 8 pm
Sunday, March 8 Noon to 7 pm

Doug and Mike Starn's edition prints:
Structure of Thought 6b
Structure of Thought 6a

Starn Studio site

Amit Gupta publishes an "insanely great" weekly newsletter about photography called Photojojo. This week 20x200 got some sunny praise in their 20 Photographers Whose Work You Can Actually Afford email. Half of the twenty highlighted were from our extraordinary set of artists! Clearly the Photojojo folks have superior taste!

Here's a recap:


Untitled, Swamp #2
by Dorthe Alstrup
Buy one now

Untitled 5 (wallpaper)
by Dan Boardman
Buy one now

The Pinetum, Wakehurst Place
by Beth Dow
Buy one now

Balloons
by Juliane Eirich
Buy one now

amnh #10
by Joseph O. Holmes
Buy one now

Resting on a Bush
by Yijun (Pixy) Liao
Buy one now

Untitled (Geese, London)
by Dana Miller
Buy one now

Dutch Club, Anaheim, California
by Brad Moore
Buy one now

Nastya Before Class, St. Petersburg, Russia
by Rachel Papo
Buy one now

Untitled (Blue Lagoon, Reykjavik, Iceland)
by Carlo Van de Roer
Buy one now

Surely you're sufficiently inspired now!
Check out Photojojo here. One of my favorite things is their TimeCapsule feature. If you're a flickr fan you won't want to miss it!

Detail of a drawing of the entire inventory of P&S by Jason Polan

20x200 artist Jason Polan is past prolific. I'm sure he's finishing up at least 75 new projects before you will finish reading this sentence. Jason recently made a drawing of every object inside the Partners & Spade shop in NYC. Of course this project is similar in every excellent way to his The Every Piece Of Art in The Museum Of Modern Art Book.

Interior shot of the P&S shop

I'm looking forward to visiting as soon as the snow stops falling!

In other Jason news: McSweeney's Issue 30 boasts a drawing by Jason on almost every page! According to Jason, that amounts to "approximately 198 drawings".

But wait! There's more!

The above illustration was made by Jason for the New York Times last week to illustrate the letters section entitled, Can We Spend Our Way to Recovery?.

Jason, you're the inspiration.

Jason Polan's 20x200 editions:
Insects and Myriapods at The American Museum of Natural History
Sea Creatures at The American Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs at The American Museum of Natural History
132 Birds at The American Museum of Natural History
Every Person in New York
Hand Project

Jason Polan's sites:
Jason Polan
The Drawing Project
Every Person in New York
The 53rd Street Biological Society

Reflect, 2003 by Todd St. John

20x200 artist, Todd St. John, was interviewed for the art and design blog, My Computerlove. Todd "indulges his fascination with the tension between the manmade and natural worlds" in his creative endeavors, of which there are many. The industrious St. John teaches at Yale in addition to being a designer, animator, and filmmaker. Read the interview here.

Wave Scaffold, 2007, by Todd St. John

Watch Todd's Emmy nominated video, Circle Squared:

We still have prints of Todd's super stylish 20x200 edition Untitled (Black Blocks) available in all sizes.

Todd's sites:
http://www.toddstjohn.com/
http://www.huntergatherer.net/
http://www.greenlady.com/
http://www.iglooshop.com/

image by Jacob Magraw

20x200 artist Jacob Magraw will be showing work from his series Hyperopia in the Project Space at Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis. The exhibition opens tonight, Friday, February 27th, and will be on view until April 11th.

He'll be in fine company; fellow 20x200 artist and Hot Shot, Shuli Hallak will be showing her series, Cargo, in the Main Gallery. It's a regular 20x200 party!
Also on view: an interactive video installation, by MN local Bill Klaila, entitled Pool.

Can't make it to the show? Pick up 20x200 souvenirs instead:

Drawing by Jacob Magraw
AA, 2007 by Jacob Magraw

Hay Harvest, New Jersey by Shuli Hallak
Cotton Field, Mississippi by Shuli Hallak

Red Plastic Plates, 2008 by Ann Toebbe

20x200 artist Ann Toebbe received a fitting nod on the design blog, Cool Hunting. Her paintings are deemed "quite inspirational, giving the feeling of living in a geometric, melancholy collage".

Ann's 20x200 edition prints:
Drying Our Boots by the Stove
Burning Down the Second House
Ann's site

Mike Perry is a man of patterns, so it is no surprise that his first New York solo show at Giant Robot NY is titled The Patterns Found in Space. The exhibit is follows the publication of his 2008 book, Over & Over, featuring a collection of hand-drawn patterns that impress in their complexity, innovation and whimsy. Whether lettering type or finding inspiration in everyday objects like scissors and flowers, Perry's patterns come very much alive on the page.

You can put a Perry on your wall; his 20x200 edition, Optical-01, is still available in several sizes. To see an entire room full of Perry's patterns, stop by Giant Robot NY on March 7th (next Saturday).

The Patterns Found in Space
March 7 - April 8, 2009
Reception: Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.

Giant Robot Gallery
437 East 9th Street
Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A

More Mike Perry:
Optical-01 on 20x200.
Mike's website.

Just kidding, although being in Paris under any circumstances is probably never a bad thing! 20x200 illustrator Linzie Hunter was commissioned by Penguin to illustrate the paperback cover of Petite Anglaise. As always, Linzie's style is spirited and lovingly reminiscent of the beloved Jay Ward.

Take yourself on a little trip to her website, and see more of what she's been up to. Here are two of my favorite illustrations from her portfolio:

And of course, her lettering always pleases:

Walking through our inventory, I am surprised to see that we still have a small quantity of two of her edition prints available:

Left: Say Goodbye
Right: Boundless
Her latest edition print, Coney, sold out in a hot second.

Linzie also keeps a blog and a bubbly flickr stream.

Border Watcher with Dogs, Arizona and Mexico Border, 2008 by Nina Berman

Jen Bekman artist and Hot Shot, Nina Berman will be showing works from her series Homeland at Unite and Untie, opening Friday, February 27th at the Houston Center for Photography. She will share the space with photographers Chris Sims, Toby Morris, Mark Bagge and Benjamin Lowy, whose images aim to re-shape contemporary war photography by looking at the effects of war away from combat and the impact of civil unrest in the Middle East on the rest of the world.

Houston Center for Photography
Friday, February 27th, 2009
6-8 p.m.

See works from Homeland, exhibited at Jen Bekman Gallery in the fall of 2008.
Buy Berman's editions 9-11-02 and G.I. Goat on 20x200.
Nina Berman's website.

Image of Mickey Smith's Collocation No. 12 (TIME) installed at Marty Walker Gallery

Three cheers for Hot Shot and 20x200 superstar, Mickey Smith! Mickey is currently part of a group show, there’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you… at Marty Walker Gallery in Texas.

Mickey Smith explores history, knowledge, and a sense of place in her photographs of book spines. Using public library collections for inspiration, the artist composes shelves of imprinted words that float, connect, and refer to universal human experience. Smith’s photographs of books are transformed into color-field abstractions through repetition and a dramatic exploitation of scale, creating books that are four and five feet tall, proportionally dwarfing the viewer in an expanse of color, and bold accentuated text.

Marty Walker Gallery
February 21 – March 21, 2009
2135 Farrington St.
Dallas, TX
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11-5 and by appointment

In other exciting Mickey related news--Mrs. Smith will be moving off to China for a month this September for a Red Gate Residency. Woo hoo!

Mickey's 20x200 edition prints:
WORD STUDY
MORE BOOKS
A 20x200 interview with Mickey
Mickey's site

Images from Kate's flickr.

20x200's Kate Bingaman-Burt is the latest artist to team up with Pinball Publishing for the release of this month's offering in their designer card series. Images come from Kate's series of drawings, What Did You Buy Today? documenting daily purchases from the last three years and are printed on chipboard with rounded corners in Pantone 376 (a lively spring green), black, and opaque white. The designer decks are a collaboration between graphic designers, illustrators, and artists with Pinball's team to show-off exactly what offset printing can do.

Princeton Architectural Press will also publish 650 of Kate's daily drawings in a book forthcoming in March 2010. We can't wait.

Kate's site, Obsessive Consumption.
Kate's editions, I Bought All of These and Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Carts #1 on 20x200.
Kate in the recently released documentary, Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design.
Kate's exhibit at Jen Bekman Gallery.

A new exhibit by Megan Whitmarsh, The Fucking Crap of Life, opened Saturday, February 21st at New Image Art in West Hollywood, CA. Whitmarsh, who embraces "entropy" and "visual noise" along with a vibrant color palette and 1970s pop culture, has two editions, Color Work Station and Trash Mountain, currently available on 20x200.

Whitmarsh says of her new work:

I am a child of the 70s whose sense of futurism is informed by Star Wars (fucked-up dusty robots) instead of Tomorrow Land. A future with entropy and drug use and weeds growing in the cracks between the scratched plexiglass windows of the geodesic domes. Bits of yarn and dusty houseplants. If this sounds bleak, I don’t mean for it to. Perhaps the healthiest kind of futurism is one that admits entropy and flux. Perfection is suspicious; worn and dusty can mean well-loved, too. Who loves the Stepford Wife?...

When I make a giant mountain of handmade trash I am lost in the fun of making, and feel like a kid building a fort. In the end I must resign myself to the fact that I have just added more crap to the world, but this seems an inevitable part of being an artist and a human. I try to remain optimistic. I like art that is generous in spirit and amateurish, art that inspires rather than intimidates.

The Fucking Crap of Life will be up through March 21, 2009.

Buy Color Work Station and Trash Mountain at 20x200.
Read Jen's newsletter on Megan Whitmarsh.

20x200 darling (and Summer '06 Hot Shot) Kate Bingaman-Burt is one of many superstars in a new documentary by Faythe Levine, Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design .

Handmade Nation NYC Premiere and Director's Panel TONIGHT!
Tickets can be ordered here
Museum of Art and Design Theater
Thursday, February 12 6:30-8pm
2 Columbus Circle
NYC

P.S.

Kate designed the Handmade Nation logo you see above!

We Just Keep Taking Turns
by Wendy Heldmann

20x200 artist Wendy Heldman will be opening a solo show, Of Course and Never, this Saturday, February 14th @ JAIL Gallery in LA. Like Wendy's edition print, the show features work that reveal to us curious scenes of disarray that alarm as much as they entice. In her artist statement Wendy suggests that the "series of paintings of the interiors of a university library in the aftermath of a natural disaster is not committed to an accurate auditing of the untenable wreckage, but shows what such a site represents- the futility of invention and architecture in such a cataclysmic environmental condition."

From the press release:

JAIL Gallery is pleased to present "Of Course and Never", a solo exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Wendy Heldmann. Library aisles appear in Heldmann's paintings as they are never seen. Tomes slump in their shelves, books lie in unintelligible piles on the floor, and periodicals are strewn across aisles, defying the organizing principles that make their contents accessible. The entropic state of these compositions is amplified through a use of paint that further enacts such a state. Whether alluding to the obsolescence of tactile information systems such as libraries, allegorizing the innavigable results of an obtuse google search, or simply documenting the varying degrees of disarray left after a thorough ransacking, "Of Course and Never" oscillates between affirmation and negation of each perspective.

A 32 page book will accompany the exhibition and is available here

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 14th from 6-10PM

JAIL Gallery
February 14- March 14, 2009
965 N. Vignes St., #5A
Los Angeles, CA

Gallery hours :
Wed - Sat, 12-6pm

Wendy's 20x200 edition print: Darkness moves
Wendy's website

20x200 superstars Jason Polan and Jane Mount are at it again! Well, to be clear, they are not sparring (and never really have), but instead are collaborating once more. This time it is for a group show at Syracuse University entitled Land vs Sea: Animals in the Consciousness of America. Looks like they are an art duo that is here to stay. Who could ever grumble about that? Not a soul, dear collectors. Not one.

The show will open next Thursday, February 19th @ Spark Contemporary Art Space.

SPARK
1005 E. Fayette Street
Syracuse, NY

Jason Polan's 20x200 editions:
Insects and Myriapods at The American Museum of Natural History
Sea Creatures at The American Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs at The American Museum of Natural History
132 Birds at The American Museum of Natural History
Every Person in New York
Hand Project

Jason Polan's sites:
Jason Polan
The Drawing Project
Every Person in New York
The 53rd Street Biological Society

Jane's edition prints:
Bookshelf 29
Bookshelf 20
132 Birds Leaving AMNH (Response to Jason Polan)
Jane's site

Highway 94 Location, #1
by Kevin J. Miyazaki
Buy one now

Last Wednesday Kevin J. Miyazaki made his 20x200 debut, and today his hometown paper reported on his edition print with us:

Milwaukee artist Kevin Miyazaki's black and white photographs of forlorn urban spaces, former homes to fast-food restaurants, are featured on the site. The images, resonant with a sense of collective loss, are not presented as the unsentimental corporate spaces they once were but as the cultural relics that they've become.

And 20x200 didn't get away without some praise:

There are people who love and want to buy art. And there are people itchin' to sell art. And these folks are not always in proximity. Enter: The Internet.

Yes, we know, there aren't many Web-based art galleries worthy of a recommendation, but 20x200 is a rare exception.

A rare exception? Yes indeedy!

Kevin's edition prints:
Featured above--Highway 94 Location, #1
Jones Boulevard Location, #1
Kevin's site

G.I. Goat
by Nina Berman
Buy one now

Windy City collectors, this one is for you! Jen Bekman Gallery artist, 20x200 denizen, and internationally lauded documentary photographer, Nina Berman, will be showing her Homeland series at Gage Gallery starting on Thursday, February 12th. Nina will be holding a lecture about the series the same night at 6.15. The reception and lecture with Berman are free and open to the public.

Nina's recently published book, Homeland, was named on The Times as one of the best photography books of 2008.

Nina Berman | Homeland
Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University
February 12 - May 22, 2009
Chicago, Illinois

Nina's website
Nina's 20x200 editions:
9-11-02
G.I. Goat
Nina's images on JenBekman.com

Enlarged photomicrographs of snowflakes from the series alleverythingthatisyou
by Doug & Mike Starn

20x200 photographers Doug & Mike Starn's photographs of snowflakes have taken a timely trip to Vermont.

This body of work was conceived in Vermont and pays homage to “Snowflake” Bentley (1835-1931), the Jericho, Vermont, photographer whose pioneering excursions in photographic microscopy are responsible for our recognition that no two snowflakes are alike.

Art Now: Doug and Mike Starn
Middlebury College Museum of Art
Middlebury, VT
January 6 – April 19

Mike + Doug Starn: alleverythingthatisyou book

Doug and Mike Starn's edition prints:
Structure of Thought 6b
Structure of Thought 6a

Starn Studio site

Rachell Sumpter
Aten, Apollo and Amor, 2009

Californian collectors, this one is for you! Grab your red pens and put a heart around February 21st for this is an auspicious day wherein 20x200 sweetheart Rachell Sumpter will open a solo show, Molten Kin, at Richard Heller Gallery. Just because a little groundhog saw his shadow yesterday is no reason to give in to the wintertime blues when a show with molten sunshine is just around the corner!

Rachell Sumpter | Molten Kin
February 21 - March 21
Opening Reception: 5 - 7pm
RICHARD HELLER GALLERY
2525 Michigan Avenue, B-5A
Santa Monica, California

Rachell's 20x200 edition prints:
Cave Dwellers
Grande Finale
Rachell's site

Florentine
by Amy Talluto

20x200 artist, Amy Talluto, has work up in a small group show, Second Nature, at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn.

Amy Talluto is a painter for whom the romance of the natural world still exerts a powerful draw. She takes us to remote places where the influence of human activity is out of sight and rediscovers the intense magic and silent strangeness that nature can hold. Talluto's high keyed Technicolor palette and assured, brutal, and painterly, brush strokes give the paintings a vibrant physicality. Her work reminds us of the rough virgin territories that provided a home for Native Americans and that so excited America's pioneers. Her un-peopled landscapes may also remind us that wildness still exists, for now, by the grace of our stewardship.

Amy's lush landscape paintings share the walls with painters Lauren Gohara and Timothy McDowell.

SECOND NATURE
January 30 – February 22, 2009
Metaphor Contemporary Art
382 Atlantic Ave
(Between Hoyt & Bond Sts)
Brooklyn, NY

Amy's 20x200 edition print:
Hermaphrodite

Amy's site

Image of Sinead O'Connor (1988, NYC) by Laura Levine
"I always prefer to photograph people with as little artificial ornamentation as possible. A simple, strong portrait of an incredible talent."

Accomplished 20x200 artist and antique shop owner, Laura Levine, was recently interviewed for the music blog rockcritics.com. The three-part interview follows Levine's career from a young shooter for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice up to her most recent success as an illustrator and filmmaker.

Mayhaps you remember Laura from the Ornithology summer group show at the gallery. Or perhaps from her recent AAA Edition.

Birds of the Rockies
by Laura Levine
AAA Edition

Suffice to say that whether Laura is wielding a camera, pen or brush, the results are dazzling. If you're like me, the interview will make you want to get a coffee with her and have her tell you all about hanging out with the likes of Michael Stipe and Natalie Merchant.

Laura's site
Laura's 20x200 edition prints:
Meadow Lark
Birds of the Pacific Northwest
Birds of the Rockies
AAA Edition

Laura's zippy site

Congratulations are in order for 20x200 artist (and Fall'07 HHS winner), Scott Eiden, who has a show up now at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Scott's latest edition print debuted alongside his brother, Steven's print. Need a refresher? Read Sara's newsletter about the editions here.

Scott Eiden
January 12 - January 30, 2009
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
273 E. Erie St.
Milwaukee, WI

Scott's edition prints:
Opp, Alabama
Hank Williams' Bed, Georgiana, Alabama
Scott's site

Steve's editon print:
Leonard's Bed, Niland, California
Steve's site

Walker, Minnesota from the series The Last Days of W
by Alec Soth

Happy Inaugural Tuesday, dear collectors. If you didn't score VIP tickets to any DC balls this evening perhaps you should consider heading uptown to Gagosian for Alec Soth's opening, The Last Days of W., for a convergence of art and politics.

From the press release:

Although originally conceived without explicit political intent, in retrospect Soth considers this selected body of work, which spans both terms of George W. Bush's presidency, to represent "a panoramic look at a country exhausted by its catastrophic leadership." Soth's earlier series such as "Sleeping by the Mississippi," "NIAGARA," and "Dog Days, Bogotá" – all subjective narratives containing disenfranchised figures and decaying landscapes -- laid the conceptual groundwork for "The Last Days of W." It provides a wry commentary on the adverse effects of the national administration, perhaps best exemplified by an unwittingly ironic remark that Bush made in 2000: "I think we can agree, the past is over."

Opening reception: Tuesday, January 20th (Inauguration Day). from 6 to 8 pm
THE LAST DAYS OF W. JANUARY 20 - MARCH 7, 2009
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10075

Sweet William
by Amy Talluto

Happy MLK Monday!
Last week Jen introduced you to the work of artist Amy Talluto. Amy happens to have a solo show, The Devil's Dream, up this very moment at Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago.

In The Devil's Dream, Talluto's investigates the impact of nature, and natural space on the mind. Individual works describe scenes that are bright, lush and flowering, or sometimes dissonant, murky and foreboding. Tree branches twist and writhe, color turns acidic, and sky flattens to meet form. Contrasting areas of dense hyper-detail with areas of breathe-ability, Talluto wrangles anxiety with visual relief. Snippets of the saturated under-painting peak out and are left raw. Heavily painted areas of density and deformity creep in, creating a final puzzle-locking composition that confuses the appearance of flatness and space, invented and natural color, and ugliness and beauty.

See installation images from the show here

Packer Schopf Gallery
Chicago, IL
Jan 9 - Feb 14, 2009

Amy's edition print:
Hermaphrodite
Amy's site

Untitled #8
by Kent Rogowski

20x200 superstar and Hey, Hot Shot! panelist, Kent Rogowski, has just launched an exciting non-profit organization called Scaffold which will give fellowships to artists in need. Visit the Scaffold site to learn more, and then check out Sara's interview with Kent over on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog.

20x200 photographer Luke Stephenson is a busy bee who enjoys making portraits. Both of his edition prints are from an ongoing series in which he makes portraits of show birds. Hopefully you didn't miss reading about Luke's involvement in the Best Budgerigar & Foreign Bird Competition. Let's just say it involved birds and Jane Mansfield.

Late last month I posted a video that Luke recently made, and yesterday I received this email:

Hello Kara

Hope all is well and Happy New Year. I just want to let you know that I have just updated my website with a new project called DART which is a collection of portraits I took at the British Darts Organisations World Championships at the start of January. I photographed various officials and player over 3 days.
Please take a look at the results, and I hope you enjoy.

All the best,
Luke

You gotta love another industrious 20x200 artist.
See more of his portraits of dart enthusiasts here.

Luke's 20x200 edition prints:
Yellow Canary #1
White and Grey Canary #1
Luke's site

Tree, Giardino dei Semplici, Florence, from the series In the Garden

Later this month beloved 20x200 photographer Beth Dow will be showing at Joseph Bellows Gallery in California.

The exhibition will feature a selection of Dow's photographs from her series, In the Garden. The exhibition will be on view from January 23rd through March 7th, 2009. An opening reception will be held on Friday, January 23rd (5-8 pm).

Interested in garden history and historical concepts of paradise, Beth Dow photographed formal English and Italian gardens in her most recent series, In the Garden. For Dow, the shape and mystery of these places not only offer glimpses of the rich traditions of garden making, but also reveal attempts to control and dominate nature. Dow aims for pictures that have a meditative quality to reflect the spiritual urges that inspired the earliest gardens centuries ago.

Read the full release here

Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla, CA

Beth is represented by Jen Bekman Gallery
Images from her last solo show, Fieldwork, can be seen here
Beth's 20x200 edition prints:
Bags
Clearing, Wakehurst Place
AAA Editions
Beth's website

Beth will be showing at the gallery this April, but don't worry, I promise to remind you.

Jacob Magraw
Untitled, 2007
Gouache on Paper

San Francisco collectors, this is for you: 20x200 artist Jacob Magraw has work in a group show, First Things First, which will open this Thursday at 111 Minna Gallery.

The gallery will host an opening reception on January 8, 2009 and the exhibition will run through January 31, 2009.

111 Minna Gallery
111 Minna Street
San Francisco

Jacob's 20x200 edition prints:
Drawing
AA, 2007
Jacob's site

20x200 graphic artist Dustin Amery Hostetler (UPSO) is also a curator and publisher of the art magazine Faesthetic.

Issue #10, "Scams & Deceit", is available now.

Dustin's 20x200 edition print:
Color Study #4
Dustin's website

Jason Polan and Every Person in New York from Abby Urban on Vimeo.

Words of wisdom from Mr. Polan are revealed in this snappy little video about his neverending project Every Person in New York by Abby Urban.

Jason Polan's 20x200 editions:
Insects and Myriapods at The American Museum of Natural History
Sea Creatures at The American Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs at The American Museum of Natural History
132 Birds at The American Museum of Natural History
Every Person in New York
Hand Project

Jason Polan's sites:
Jason Polan
The Drawing Project
Every Person in New York
The 53rd Street Biological Society

Close Call
by Coke Wisdom O'Neal
Buy one

20x200 photographer, Coke Wisdom O'Neal, is making new work for his ongoing project which involves a 18-foot by 25-foot wooden specimen box. Yes, you read that correctly. To make things more clear, here is an image of past subjects:

Untitled (25) 2005

Coke was recently on location in San Isidro, Texas at the request of Mixed Greens gallery owner, Paige West. High School students, farm hands and other bold souls all stepped in front of Coke's lens to be boxed and indexed. There is talk of a show of the work at Mixed Greens. I'll keep you posted...

The Brownsville Herald ran an article on Coke's arrival in town. Read all about it here.

In addition to being your humble bloggerina, I am also a preschool art teacher. I mention this now because the above video that Luke Stephenson has made for Bare Teeth reminds me of the beauty that comes when simple materials are transformed into magical things. Paint and paper combine to represent a new world where cardboard and pipe cleaners are suddenly a functioning part of a Good Luck Factory!

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Luke, and when I asked what he was working on, he had this to say:

A music video, it's going to be an animation of a factory in a forest, and it should be interesting to make. I have made one or two little films before, and they are good fun. I don't really know what I'm doing or how its really going to work but I think that is what makes it fun.

Fun to make and fun to watch!
The video reminds me of something Stéphane and Stéphanie might have made in The Science of Sleep. And the music? Well, the music is delightful--makes me envision elves playing on a sunny snowy mountaintop.

If only Luke didn't live an ocean away I'd be begging him to come and spend the day making videos with my 4 year olds.

Enjoy Luke's other videos here

Luke's 20x200 edition prints:
Yellow Canary #1
White and Grey Canary #1
Luke's site

Attenzione, California collectors! 20x200 artists (and married couple) Jacob Magraw and Rachell Sumpter are participating in Giant Robot LA's 3rd annual Post-It Show.

Giant Robot magazine and stores is proud to present Post-It Show 3 at GR2 in Los Angeles. Curated by artists Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson and Giant Robot, the exhibition is slated to feature nearly 2,000 works by over 95 noted contributors each starting at only $20. These pieces will be on standard-sized 3" x 3" Post-It notes. (Larger sizes of 4" x 4" and 6" x 6" will also be available.) GR2 will offer them on a cash and carry basis, so they'll make great holiday gifts.

Can't make it to LA? Watch the video here.

Post-It Show 3 at GR2
GR2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

Incidentally, Rachell and Jacob have edition prints available:

AA, 2007
by Jacob Magraw
Buy one now

Cave Dwellers
by Rachell Sumpter
Buy one now

P.S.
Don't wait if you're ready to buy! December 18th (today!) is the very last day we can guarantee Christmas delivery to you!

A magnificent wall arrangement of 20x200 Carrie Marill edition prints

Wishes do come true! Last week 20x200 debuted an AAA Edition by Carrie Marill. In Jen's newsletter about the release, she wrote about the possibility of a Marill dream wall, "an utterly delightful salon style hanging of all Ms. Marill's 20x200 editions". Well, artist Jane Mount heard this wish and made it come true for Miss Bekman using the powers of Photoshop. It truly does look delightful, but who could doubt the Bekman eye?

Perhaps you've been thinking of a dream wall of your very own. AAA Editions make this desire super simple to realize as they are comprised of 2, 3 or 4 images from the same artist. You can buy just one, or collect the whole set!

To date we've offered you 5 AAA Editons:
Jason Polan
Jennifer Sanchez
Carlo Van de Roer
Carrie Marill
Beth Dow

Which one are you dreaming of?

Identical wonder twins, Doug and Mike Starn, are about to unveil their installation, See It Split, See It Change, underground at the new South Ferry station.

From the press release:

Sandra Bloodworth, Director of MTA Arts for Transit said, “The Starns’ installation is brilliant in its simplicity and clarity as it captures the historic context of the new South Ferry Terminal. Viewed from the southern tip of the island the work compares and contrasts the veins and arteries of the natural world to the routes and lines of the transportation system, the similarities are stunning. Likewise, the flanking silhouetted trees are portrayed in fused glass that powerfully evokes the Park at the Battery - in breath-taking beauty.”

Read the complete press release here.
Read Making Artistic Connections at a Subway Station in the New York Times here.
Curbed, also has this review.

More images here, and here.

Doug and Mike Starn's edition prints:
Structure of Thought 6b
Structure of Thought 6a

Starn Studio site

searching for armillaria death rings # 0611-1129 (2,400 + years old; malhuer national forest, OR)
by Rachel Sussman

20x200 photographer, and Spring 2005 Hot Shot, Rachel Sussman was named in New York Magazine's Year in Art recap. Along with Polixeni Papapetrou she was drafted into the Best Photography Shows That Slipped Under the Radar category. The said show was Sussman's first solo Chelsea show which opened in May at Michael Steinberg.

Also of note, Sussman's ongoing project The Oldest Living Things in the World is on view at The Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The Oldest Living things in the World "is simultaneously a photographic exhibition and an interdisciplinary study of the oldest continuously living organisms on the planet. Sussman's research ranges far afield from her training as a photographer, bringing her into dialogue with experts in mycology, dendrochronology and microbiology, amongst others. At the completion of this project she will have traveled to over twenty countries and every continent to photograph and work with biologists. Her subjects, all a minimum of 2,000 years old, include such diverse life forms as trees, predatory fungus, and ancient bacteria."

Read more about her project on her blog.

Rachel's 20x200 edition print:
Towards Christiana (Copenhagen)
Rachel's site

Image from Nina Bermnan's Homeland series

Congratulations to photojournalist extraordinaire, Nina Bermnan, whose recently published book, Homeland, was named on The Times Christmas Books 2008: Photography list. From the review:

Between 2001 and 2008 Berman photographed some of the simulation drills, involving thousands of ordinary participants, in which various war scenarios are imagined: Islamic terrorists with nuclear bombs, bioterrorists, shopping mall terrorists. In her photographs, happy families creep through the suburbs clutching anti-nuclear pills, evangelical Christians dress in Afghan burkas, even senior citizens become extras in a War on Terror script.

Read the rest of The Times Photography Book picks here.

Nina's website
Nina's 20x200 editions:
9-11-02
G.I. Goat
Nina's images on JenBekman.com

Wrap, 2006
oil on canvas
by Sarah McKenzie

Halloa! 20x200 artist Sarah McKenzie is part of a group exhibition, Infrastructure, that opened this past Saturday in the Windy City. The show is at Zg Gallery, and will remain on view through January 3rd.

In November I mentioned that Sarah is in a concurrent group show, curated by Andrew Blauvelt and Tracy Myers, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes. The touring exhibition which opened at the Walker Art Center is making the rounds of some very distinguished spaces.

Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes is presently at the Carnegie Museum of Art through January 18, 2009. It will then travel to the Yale School of Architecture until May of 2009.

The show has garnered some nice press; here are two articles:
The suburbs as a museum piece
Last arts frontier: Walker exhibit explores, explodes suburbia myths

Sarah was also recently interviewed by myartspace.com, read it here.

Zg Gallery
300 W. Superior Street
Chicago
Gallery Hours: Tu-Sat 10-5pm

Sarah's 20x200 edition print:
Site
Sarah's website

me.06.#01
mixed mediums on paper
22 " x 30 "
by Jennifer Sánchez

Hello collectors! Consider this a footnote to the post beneath. Beloved 20x200 artist Jennifer Sánchez recently started a blog that promises to shares her favorite artists and inspiration behind her bubbly and merry paintings: Jennifer Sánchez: news and stuff that inspires my paintings

But wait, there's more:
20x200 interview with Jennifer
Jennifer's website
Jennifer's 20x200 edition prints:
ny.07.#32
ny.07.#34
ny.07.#20
Jennifer's AAA edition

Image by Carlo van de Roer from his project, The Aura Portrait Machine

20x200 photographer Carlo van de Roer is curious about the most unusual things. You might recall my post about Carlo's Orb project. For those of you yet unfamiliar with the body of work, I'll warn you now, it may well lead to a few hours of clicking through site after fascinating site of believers in lens flare as something greater than, well, lens flare. Some wholeheartedly take lens flare to be evidence of the paranormal.

Carlo is currently making images with a Aura Camera 6000, a camera that possibly "can pick up your spiritual energy. The camera can then display this information as a colorful field around your body. The colors actually reflect your spiritual and auric state."

Read more about his new adventures in auraphotography on the T Magazine blog and on the Interview blog.

Carlo, if you are reading this, I'm ready to volunteer for my aura close-up.

Carlo's site
Carlo's 20x200 edition prints:
Untitled (Bondi Baths, Sydney, Australia) 2007
Untitled (Astoria Park, Queens, New York)

Still from Jason Polan's latest video

Ciao collectors!
Yes yes, it is Jason Polan news time again!
Jason has a made an orientation video for the Criterion Collection. Unsure of what the Criterion Collection might be? Well, this is precisely why Jason made this video! Click on over and allow yourself to be illuminated and charmed by Jason (again).

Ruurlo #7, 9/6/1999 10:45

Hello! Recently I mentioned that photographer Bert Teunissen opened a solo show, on the road, at Witzenhausen Gallery. ARTmostfierce has beaten me to the punch and posted this interview with Bert. My favorite part? His words of wisdom to aspiring artists:

Sing your own tune! Initially it has to come from the belly. And never give up!

Never giving up is perhaps the best advice on the planet, and it also reminds me of this song.

Witzenhausen Gallery
5th floor, Suite 530
547 West 27th Street

Bert's 20x200 edition print:
LA ALBERCA #6 1/3/2005 12:56

Piñata Carnival, 2007 by Fernanda Cohen

Happy Monday once again, collectors! This weekend I was taking a stroll through many of our 20x200 artist's websites, and was delighted to read this on Fernanda Cohen's:

I'm the coordinator of Special Events at the SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS OF NY, including lectures and workshops. The fourth and last event I'm coordinating in 2008 is a lecture I'm moderating with NICHOLAS BLECHMAN, the art director of the Book Review section at THE NEW YORK TIMES, and MAX BODE, art director at THE NEW YORKER.

Lecture: Art Directing and Illustrating
with Nicholas Blechman and Max Bode
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Begins at 6:30pm.
$15 non-members, $10 members, $7 students.
RSVP tara@societyillustrators.org

I also learned that 20x200 star and Summer 2006 Hey, Hot Shot,! Kate Bingaman-Burt, signed a book contract with Princeton Architectural Press. Drawings from Kate's ongoing What Did You Buy Today? series will be edited down to 650 images, bound and preserved for all eternity. The only sad news is that we'll have to wait until 2010 for the book to be released.

Congrats, Kate!

Geetbets #1 by Bert Teunissen

Buongiorno collectors! Photographer Bert Teunissen will be showing his Domestic Landscapes series at Witzenhausen Gallery next Thursday evening. Bert's 20x200 edition print, LA ALBERCA #6 1/3/2005 12:56, was from this series and is just about sold out.

Teunissen documents interiors that are oriented around the natural light that falls in through the windows, that find their origins in the era before electricity. Where the table is situated under the window, because most of the light can be found there. Where it is still impossible to work in the basement, because it is simply too dark. Teunissen realized all this at just the right moment. Now he is trying to keep up with rapid developments and struggling to document as much as possible of what has been the norm for centuries, but will soon not be found in our modern interiors.

Reception for the artist:
Thursday, November 20 6-8pm

Witzenhausen Gallery
5th floor, Suite 530
547 West 27th Street

Bert's 20x200 edition print:
LA ALBERCA #6 1/3/2005 12:56

Architecture's Internal Logic
by Jessica Snow

Hello darling collectors. This week's fine art edition print artist, Jessica Snow, will be opening a solo show entitled, Incident in the Territory of Invention, December 4th at Merge Gallery, so mark your calendars!

Merge Gallery is thrilled to present California-based artist Jessica Snow’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Her East Coast debut will include a series of 6 medium and small scale paintings.

Opening reception:
Thursday, December 4th, 2008, 6:00–9pm
The show will run until January 10th, 2009.

Merge Gallery
205 West 20th Street
New York, NY

Jessica's 20x200 edition prints:
Paradigm Shift
Cascade
In One Ear, Out the Other

Jessica's site

Image from Joseph O. Holmes' workspace series

Here's some good news: 20x200 photographer Joseph O. Holmes was awarded an Honorable Mention from the Silver Eye Center for Photography's Fellowship 2008 competition. Joseph will be in a exhibition in early 2009 with the rest of the Silver Eye award winners, and I'll let you know when and where as soon as the schedule is announced.

Joseph's 20x200 edition prints:
Prospect Park
amnh#30
amnh#10
amnh#62
Joseph's gallery images on jenbekman.com
Joseph's site

Collocation No. 7 (BLOOD), 2008

Hey, Hot Shot! winner and 20x200 superstar, Mickey Smith will be opening her first New York solo exhibition, You People, this Friday, November 14th at Invisible-Exports in the Lower East Side. The opening reception will be from 6-8pm.

Mickey Smith is a cultural archeologist and You People is her reclamation project. The books and bound periodicals she photographs are a fossil record the 20th century unknowingly left behind. In their own time, these periodicals represented to their readers a concrete and tangible common culture — each reader knowing that there are thousands, perhaps millions, of people around the country reading the very same things — unifying communities of subscribers around shared interests, shared standards and shared identities. But looking at them past their expirations dates has the opposite effect: the publications seem insufficient, the audience for them a universe of disparate and disunited lives, only loosely bound. They become something else, the meaning shifting from their content to the viewer’s own inherited history.

MICKEY SMITH | YOU PEOPLE
November 14 – December 21, 2008
Invisible-Exports
14A Orchard Street
Wednesday through Sunday, 11-6:30pm

Mickey's 20x200 edition prints:
WORD STUDY
MORE BOOKS
A 20x200 interview with Mickey
Mickey's site

Image from Birthe Piontek's Sub Rosa series

Congratulations to Birthe Piontek! Birthe will be opening a solo show at Gallery Kominek in Berlin today. The romantic series, Sub Rosa will remain on view through December 13th.

From the press release:

Sub Rosa reminds us of a time, a stage in one's life which could not have been more intimate, and nevertheless exists as a romanticized blur in our mind today. No period in life is so comprehensively enriched with emotions, frustration and high expectations as the stage between our youth and adulthood. Adolescence, the loss of prolonged innocence and the desire to belong and to be different at the same time, seems to be an unconquerable obstacle in the journey of discovering our identity...

Gallery Kominek has also published a book of the exhibition available here.

Birthe's gallery images on JenBekman.com
Birthe's edition print: Untitled
Birthe's website

Happy Monday Morning collectors. 20x200 artist Todd St. John will be showing new work at 222Gallery in Philadelphia. The show will open November 7 and run through December 5.

222gallery Philadelphia presents a selection of new works by artist, designer, and filmmaker Todd St. John.

The show will be comprised of works on paper and wooden sculptural work that St. John has been developing over the past 6 years. The work combines elements of industrial design with sign-based and abstract forms. Much of the work contrasts the representation of similar forms in flattened and dimensional space. Another section of the show is devoted to animated shorts and some of the handmade characters and sets created for them.

Read the full press release here.
Also check out this interview with Todd by Meg Wells on Flux.

Below is a still from Todd's video Circle Squared: A Tale of Giving

Watch it here.

222gallery Philadelphia
222 Vine St.
Philadelphia, PA
Opening reception November 7th 6-9pm

Todd's 20x200 edition print;
Untitled (Black Blocks)
Todd's site

Image from Nina Berman's Homeland series

20x200 documentary photographer Nina Berman (and former Hot Shot! and Ultra) has work up in the gallery as we speak. Nina was kind enough to take the time to answer a few questions for us for this week's interview.

As a participant in 20x200 you must be interested in making art available in affordable ways, what is your philosophy on this?
I'm mystified by the valuation of art. When I go to galleries, I often walk out wondering why something is valued at $30,000 instead of $3,000 or
$300. It seems to me based on hype and what the market will bear and so something like 20x200 which flies in the face of all of that, is a breath of fresh air.

Image from Nina Berman's Purple Hearts series

How has participating in Hey, Hot Shot! furthered your art career?
I had shown my Purple Hearts and Marine Wedding pictures at many venues in the U.S. and Europe, but hadn't had the opportunity to show in a gallery space in New York. Hey, Hot Shot! allowed me to do that very quickly.

Image from Nina Berman's Marine Wedding series

Do you have a favorite painter?
Francis Bacon and Gerhard Richter

Photographer?
Ray Metzker

Musician?
Miles Davis, Patti Smith and Antony and the Johnsons.

Author?
Franz Kafka and Junot Diaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is spectacular. Read it.

Image from Nina Berman's Under Taliban series
How do the above influence/inspire your art (if at all)?
They mainly influence me by showing me what brilliance looks and sounds like.

Top 20x200 artists?
I like Andrew Hetherington, Colin Blakely, Laura Levine and Amy Park.

Do you collect art?
I have a few photographs taken by friends, and two paintings, one I bought at a NYFA auction and one I purchased at a residential facility for people with mental illness.

Image from Nina Berman's Megachurches series

Describe a perfect day:
Taking a picture I had never imagined in a place I had just encountered, and then finding somewhere near there a place that had really good ice cream.

When did you first feel a calling to be an artist?
When I realized that the journalism world was too straight for my tastes.

What would be the first thing I'd notice upon entering your studio?
Chaos and clutter in a cramped space.

What are you working on now?
I'm working on moving my Homeland exhibition around.

What are you looking forward to?
A New York City real estate crash.

Wouldn't that be nice?!
Thanks, Nina!

If you're in New York, swing on by the gallery to see images from Nina's Homeland series. The show will be up through November 15th.

Also be sure to read more about Nina on the The NYMPHOTO Blog.

Nina's website
Nina's 20x200 editions:
9-11-02
G.I. Goat
Nina's images on JenBekman.com

Stephen Shore at Strand Bookstore
September 9, 2008

Hello collectors! Here is what a slightly edited and hyperlinked email from Jason Polan looks like:

I will be working on a project this weekend at the Editions/Artists' Books Fair. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I will be making drawings for a book called 100 People I Saw At The Editions/Artists' Books Fair. The book will contain 99 people I saw during these three days. Once the drawings are completed I will print the book, in an edition of 100 to be available on Sunday at noon. The book will be available for purchase at the Esopus table at the fair. The book will cost $20. If you choose to purchase a book, you will be drawn in your copy, completing the project and becoming the 100th person in the book.

A limited number of books called POINTS OF INTEREST will also be available at the fair from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. The work in the book will coincide with an exhibit I am having at the space in East Hampton opening November 15.

An edition was just released on this website.

I hope everyone is doing well and I look forward to seeing you soon.

Sincerely,
Jason.

I just realized that the email neglects to mention one more show that Jason will be in opening this weekend in DC. Who can blame Jason? He's just got so many project going at once. Here are the details:

A FRIEND INDEED: Contemporary Art and the Academy
November 3 - November 28
Katzen Arts Center Rotunda
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington, DC

More Jason here, and here and here!

We know more than we knew before
2008
acrylic on canvas
14" x 12"

20x200 artist Wendy Heldmann is in a politically themed group show opening tonight in Los Angeles. The RED & the BLUE, Art and Politics will also feature the work of Shepard Fairey and Richard Serra. Not too shabby company I do believe.

Congratulations, Wendy!

The RED & the BLUE, Art and Politics
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 30, from 6-9pm
Occidental College
Weingart Art Gallery
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA

Wendy's 20x200 edition print: Darkness moves
Wendy's website

Images from Doug and Mike Starn's show alleverythingthatisyou

Yes, more Starn news! Now until Jan 3, 2009, Doug and Mike Starn will be showing images at David Weinberg Gallery in Chicago.

Their recent photographs of individual snowflakes are utterly gorgeous, almost to the point of preciousness, but above all they're technical marvels.

Mike + Doug Starn: alleverythingthatisyou book

Doug and Mike Starn's edition prints:
Structure of Thought 6b
Structure of Thought 6a

Starn Studio site

Helicopter Fly By, All America Day with the 82nd Airborne, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, 2006 by Nina Berman

It's that time again!

An exhibition of fourteen color photographs by Nina Berman on view @ Jen Bekman Gallery from October 24 — November 15, 2008. Please join us at the gallery this Friday October 24th, from 6pm-8pm, for a reception for the artist.

Artist's Talk + Book Signing : Saturday November 8, 2008 | 5pm-7pm
On Saturday November 8, 2008 Nina will give an artist's talk at the gallery and will sign copies of Homeland, her newest monograph published by Trolley Books.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York City 10012

Nina's website
Nina's 20x200 edition: 9-11-02
Nina's portfolio on JenBekman.com

Image from Carlo Van de Roer's Orbs Project

20x200 photographer Carlo Van de Roer has been selected to appear in a special project with MUSAC Museum of Contemporary Art: an edition of FAKE Magazine.

MUSAC has invited Fake to develop a project for its Showcases. The initiative, produced by the Museum itself, will essentially revolve around a special issue devoted to today’s art, for which guest editor Tolo Cañellas has selected a number of works by contemporary artists, asking some of them to carry out specific interventions on the publication. Fake’s editorial line is underpinned by the idea that form is just as important as content, if not more so, applying concepts such as “copy”, “imitation”, “impersonation” or “appropriation” as formal tools to engage the reader’s critical perspective and suggesting readings on different possible levels. This special issue of Fake will draw its inspiration from Hello! magazine, appropriating its design, layout, sections and the luxurious artifice of its photography. The MUSAC Showcases will display an installation imitating the exhibits of any traditional museum. Based on Fake’s underlying philosophy, the exhibition will review the magazine’s history through its covers (published or not), with a special focus on this new and exclusive special issue. The magazine will also be distributed from the same spot. Close to 3,000 copies of this English and Spanish edition of Fake will be circulated free at the MUSAC stand at Frieze Art Fair from 16 to 19 October 2008.

Images from Carlo's Orbs project (which I enthusiastically wrote about this past August) will be featured in the magazine.

If only the Q train went to Spain...I'd be on my way.

MUSAC Museo de Art Contemporaneo
Avenida de los Reye Leoneses, 24
20048, Leon, SPAIN
FAKE
Sept 27, 2008 - Jan 11, 2009

Carlo's site
Carlo's 20x200 edition prints:
Untitled (Bondi Baths, Sydney, Australia) 2007
Untitled (Astoria Park, Queens, New York)

"Time Machine" by Mike Monteiro
gouache on paper
40 x 30"

Hi Kara!

I was IMing Jen this morning and she suggested I email you. I had a
piece in 20x200 back in the early days.

I'm currently showing my work on the beholder and from now until
Election Day I'm donating 50% of my sales to the Obama campaign. Jen
mentioned this might be something you could include in your blog. I'd
be most appreciative if you did.

http://tinyurl.com/6gputb

Thanks in advance.

Mike

My pleasure, Mike. Anything for Barry!

Mike's 20x200 edition print:
Untitled
Mike's blog

The Starn brothers' Attracted to Light H (1996-2000),
5-foot-square toned silver print on Thai mulberry paper

20x200 esteemed photographers Doug and Mike Starn have images of nocturnal moth studies on view at Colorado's Steele Gallery through October 25th.

Fueled by their thoughtful investigations of art, philosophy, cognitive science and history, the Starns provoke an interrogation of Cartesian ontology with their unique melding of metaphor and material. From the transformation of a delicate drying leaf into a digital sculpture, or a moth etched onto film by light, its own undoing, the Starns’ images thrum with the poetic tension between presence and absence, darkness and enlightenment.

The Denver Post's review of the show is here

Steele Gallery
Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
1600 Pierce St.
Lakewood, Coloradao

Doug and Mike Starn's edition prints:
Structure of Thought 6b
Structure of Thought 6a

Starn Studio site

amnh #15 by Joseph O. Holmes

20x200 photographer and Jen Bekman Gallery artist, Joseph O. Holmes, is currently in a solo show at Wallspace Gallery in Seattle. Joseph is showing his series of photographs made at the American Museum of Natural History, under | exposed.

Joseph's artist statement:

Street photography is my passion -- a wild mix of technical skill and social engineering, with every component changing and evolving second by second. The original amnh series was shot over a period of six weeks in New York's American Museum of Natural History, and spins my love of street photography into a radically different environment, a sort of off-the-street photography. The project carried me from sunlight into museum darkness, from rapid-fire to a zen-like slow motion, and forced me to rethink the whole process of stalking strangers. These images strip the components of traditional street photo down to the barest cues: silhouettes gazing out over vast, artificial veldts and jungles.

The Seattle Weekly has some kind words about Joseph's photographs here

Wall Space Gallery
600 First Ave.
Seattle, Washington
7 October - 8 November, 2008

Joseph's 20x200 edition prints:
Prospect Park
amnh #30
Joseph's portfolio on Jen Bekman Gallery
Joseph's site

Construction 6 (Pile)
2008, oil on panel
20"x20"

20x200 artist Sarah McKenzie is in a group show, curated by Andrew Blauvelt and Tracy Myers, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes. The touring exhibition which opened at the Walker Art Center is making the rounds of some very distinguished spaces.

Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes is currently at the Carnegie Museum of Art through January 18, 2009. It will then travel to the Yale School of Architecture until May of 2009.

The exhibition also features work by Gregory Crewdson, Dan Graham, Catherine Opie, and Edward Ruscha, among others, and architectural projects by firms such as Fashion.Architecture.Taste, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, MVRDV, and Estudio Teddy Cruz.

The show has garnered some nice press; here are two articles:
The suburbs as a museum piece
Last arts frontier: Walker exhibit explores, explodes suburbia myths

Sarah's 20x200 edition print:
Site
Sarah's website

Installation view of Michelle Weinberg's collage at David Castillo Gallery

Yes, yes, I know, I started the week by posting about Michelle Weinberg, and here I am again, with more news from Michelle. Sometimes I can hardly keep up with all of our industrious artists! What I didn't mention Tuesday is that Michelle will be in another group show, Continuing Adventures of Our Heroine, opening this Saturday in Miami at David Castillo Gallery.

From the press release:

Michelle Weinberg creates an evolving landscape of contemporary folklore punctuated by vehicles of communication: text messages, billboards, and commercial signage. Through abstract image and words, sublimity and narration, the natural world and constructed reality, Weinberg tailors chance into an aestheticism harkening to her personal experience growing up female in the 60s and 70s.

Installation view of Michelle Weinberg's collage at David Castillo Gallery

Other artist in the all-women exhibition include Susan Lee Chun, Francie Bishop Good, Natalya Laskis, Lee Materrazzi, Cindy Sherman, and Jaimie Warren.

david castillo gallery
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
October 11 - November 1

Michelle's website
Michelle's 20x200 edition: Cul de Sac
Michelle's site

Rebecca Loyche's Mines/Minds Don't Care (a series of photograms of I.E.D.s and Landmines) in billboard form in Prague

Congratulations to 20x200 photographer Rebecca Loyche, who is participating in Prague's Contemporary Art Festival with two billboard pieces. The billboards will remain on view through October 15th in downtown Prague.

Rebecca's 20x200 edition print:
The Office
Rebecca's site

Installation view of Michelle Weinberg's mural for the Miami-Dade Public Library

Woah! Florida just got a lot hipper in my book! 20x200 artist Michelle Weinberg has recently completed a mural which is on view now through December 15th at the Miami-Dade Public Library.

The mural is part of a group show, Polychrome Affinities, curated by Michelle. The other artists joining her are Guerra de la Paz and Magali Wilensky.

The artistic team of Guerra de la Paz; Magali Wilensky and Michelle Weinberg will transform the Main Library’s second floor exhibition space into an expansive tableau/plaza using intense colors and engaging forms. Each artist is a scavenger of raw materials and images absorbed from the visual environment of Miami, which are then sorted according to color. Viewers will enter a space populated by fabric constructions of anatomical forms, a free-standing rainbow clothed in colorful garments, and a giant canvas mural that brings urban architecture indoors.

Polychrome Affinities
Reception and Artists’ Talk
Thurs., November 13, 6 - 8:30 p.m.
Miami-Dade Public Library
Main Library, 2nd floor exhibition space

Michelle's website
Michelle's 20x200 edition: Cul de Sac

20x200 photographers Doug and Mike Starn have created an installation, Gravity of Light, to be unveiled this weekend as part of The Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts.

From the press release:

Doug and Mike Starn explore the fact and metaphor of the gravity of light-a power so vast and universal it is almost unnoticed. At the center of the exhibit is the Starns' 13-foot homemade carbon arc lamp, an impressive structure serving as both a central work of sculpture and a scientific experimental device that illuminates with its blindingly bright light the installations around it.

The festival begins this Friday, October 10th, and continutes until October 30th (mischeif night!) is packed with things to see and experience. Here is a link to the schedule of events.

THE PIPE BUILDING
3000 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Doug and Mike Starn's edition prints:
Structure of Thought 6b
Structure of Thought 6a

Starn Studio site

Evan (Age 5),
Belmont, MA 2008

Bostonians listen up! 20x200 photographer and Summer 2005 Hey, Hot Shot! Robert Knight will be in a solo show, My Boat is so Small, at Gallery Kayafas on October 16th.

Robert's statement:

The series My Boat is so Small is a continuation of my project photographing domestic interiors as a form of portraiture. As a parent of two young children, I am concerned about the expectations of parents and the reinforcement of these expectations through societal institutions, media imagery, and cultural traditions. Through my photographs I perceive a parent's hopes and dreams about their child's future physical image, intelligence and success as well as tensions that may exist between these aspirations and reality. I hope that these images will make the viewer conscious of the pressures which children face, and the potential effects of the myriad images and objects to which they are exposed.

Lucas & Eli (Ages 10 & 7) #2,
Chestnut Hill, MA 2006

Gallery Kayafas
450 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA
October 16th - November 23rd

Robert's 20x200 edition print:
Mameve, Cambridge, MA
Robert's site

Amy Ross
Legshroom With Bird
2008
collage on paper
10 x 8 inches

Amy Ross' collages offer us a delightful glimpse into another world, where we might retreat to when the world starts to go all topsy-turvy. Amy happens to be in a group show, Animus Botanica, thisverysecond in Chelsea. The show is closing Saturday, but you've still got some time to make it over, don't you? If you're like me and my closest friends, an indulgent walk around Chelsea just might be what the doctor ordered. Too much election news is just too much. Really.

From the press release:

Amy Ross’ watercolors and collages portray delicate, elegantly rendered botanicals morphed with animal and human forms. Ross notes these images subvert the traditional genre of botanical illustration by viewing the natural world through the lens of genetic engineering and mutation gone awry. Woodpeckers with mushroom caps for heads adorn fragile white birch branches; another mushroom sprouts into a headless writhing serpent. While these creatures are charming, Ross alludes to the dangers of meddling with nature.

Here is another peek:


Amy Ross
Woodpeckershrooms #3
2008
collage on paper, 9 x 12 inches

Boy, I wish I were one of those little birdies hanging out under the mushrooms...they probably don't have to worry about Thursday night's debate!

Denise Bibro Fine Art
529 West 20th Street 4W
New York, NY

Amy's 20x200 editions:
Manshroom
Duck Magnolia
Amy's works on paper: Jen Bekman Gallery
Amy's website

Happy Tuesday, collectors! Today I'm happy to tell you what is new with the wildly talented and delightful Fernanda Cohen.

First, Fernanda has released a line of books, Lilah Books, to be exact. I'll let the lady herself describe them for you:

There are three different designs to choose from: Lilah Green, Lilah Red & Lilah Blue. They're the perfect size (5 x 7 in.) to fit in your handbag. They feature a hard c