Wednesday Edition: Luke Stephenson
Lovebird #5 by Luke Stephenson10"x8" ($20) | 14"x11" ($50) | 20"x16" ($200) | 40"x30" ($2000)
Lovebird #6 by Luke Stephenson
10"x8" ($20) | 14"x11" ($50) | 20"x16" ($200) | 40"x30" ($2000)
Good day, collector friends! Holiday mayhem has given me nary a moment to catch my breath, so the length of today's introduction (brief) will be inversely proportional to my enthusiasm (enormous) for the work that is its subject.
I'm most delighted to be adding two finely-feathered friends—Lovebird #5 and Lovebird #6—to the eclectic array that inhabits 20x200's aviary. Their portraitist, Luke Stephenson, is no stranger to these parts. In fact, he's something of an elder statesman of 20x200, having debuted two editions—Yellow Canary #1 and White and Grey Canary #1—before 20x200 was even a year old. That fetching pair was also exhibited in the Ornithology exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery, which is high on my list of favorite (not to mention funnest*!) shows we've ever done.
Luke's been about as busy as we have in the intervening years, continuing to work on The Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds all the while. Unsurprisingly, I've been an ardent admirer of the series from the get-go, and I'm certainly not alone in that. Several of Luke's photographs were recently featured in Foam Magazine's New Talent issue, with one from the series serving as the cover image.
In getting today's prints ready for their debut, I looked through the newsletters I wrote introducing the first two. I was about to fly the coop for a trip to Madrid when Yellow Canary #1 landed in your inboxes, and was excitedly anticipating our very first in-person collector event in San Francisco when we hatched an edition of White and Grey Canary #1. In that newsletter I recounted a conversation I'd had with my friend Steve about what being a collector means to me:
Living with art is great, it's a comfort and it keeps your walls from being boring. Aside from that, making choices about what you like and don't like helps you know yourself better. (I've found that not liking something can be especially formative.) Considering yourself a collector, even if you've just bought a $20 print, gives some well-deserved gravitas to both your choosing and the work itself.
I believe in all the work that I present here and in the artists making it. I believe it's important and it's good and that living with it will make your life better in one way or another. And you're supporting those artists, which is a big deal. So, yea, my pal Steve is a collector and you are too.
* Ok, fine, "most fun!"
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