Wednesday Edition: Mike Sinclair + A 200-Minute Special!
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Greetings, collectors! It's Youngna here once again on Day 2 of our 12 Days of Festivus with Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2000, our third photograph from Hot Shot Mike Sinclair. Jen is down in Miami, where she and Associate Director of JBG, Jeffrey Teuton, have traded Mike's evergreens for palm trees and are busily setting up the gallery's booth at the PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair. Paintings by Sarah McKenzie will be on view, so if you too are in Miami, then stop by Booth I-107 at The Ice Palace to say hello! The fair opens with a VIP preview at 10 a.m. tomorrow, December 3rd, and remains open through Sunday, the 6th at 7:00 p.m.
For all of you here in newsletter-land, we have another 200-minute special, right here and right now:
Refer a new collector to 20x200, and he or she gets 20% off his or her first purchase of $50 or more. YOU get a $20 gift certificate for sending a friend our way!
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Las Vegas, Nevada, like Mike's other two editions Fourth of July #2, Independence, Missouri and Rodeo Stars, Strong City, Kansas, is a celebration of American rituals. He observes the unusual solitude of a Christmas tree lot on a dusky winter's day, free of the hubbub of families prodding over which tree to strap onto the station wagon. The lot is centered around a pole emanating with twinkly lights that act as a veritable canopy of stars above the evergreens. An inadvertent path of parched grass forms in between the trees, leading directly to the vision of a rising subdivision in the background.
The dusky clouds are a saccharine backdrop to the trees, imbuing the image with a distinctly Western aspect. I am reminded of the 2009 MoMA exhibition, Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West, a collection of 150 photographs dating back to 1850. In that show, the West's mythic history acts as a catalyst for unprecedented expansion and a frontier for discovering America's natural beauty. At the same time, we are confronted by the grimmer realities of the imprint of man, forever changing the landscape.
Mike writes of Las Vegas, observing that even in this captured moment of stillness, it too is ever-changing:
The town was growing like crazy—its population almost doubled between 1990 and 2000. It was changing so fast I feared much of what we saw would be gone by my next visit. Not only were the old casinos being replaced with new ones but on the perimeter of town new subdivisions were starting to replace the small ranches, trailer homes and Christmas tree lots.
But, Mike also follows suit with an optimistic note—that this transformation is a blend of both old and new, and that the pink-blue sky, forever swirling, is a portal into the beautiful and unknown.
With that, we'll be back tomorrow with two new prints from a 20x200 favorite that are very beautiful indeed. Hint, hint: think books!
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