Edition Announcement #12 - Dana Miller Reprise

Wednesday Edition: Dana Miller

As we mentioned yesterday, we're taking some time to catch ourselves up and move the furniture around a bit. In the meanwhile, we're giving the newsletter treatment to a few artists who were in our inventory at launch. Today's featured photograph comes from Dana Miller.

Untitled (Geese, London) is an archival pigment print on 100% cotton rag paper and it's available in 3 sizes. As of this writing, here's what we have available:

8.5"x11"
Edition of 200 each $20. 158 remain

17"x22"
Edition of 20 each $200. 19 remain

24"x30"
Edition of 2 each $2000. 2 remain

If we were playing a word association game and you said to me "Dana's photos" my response, with no hesitation, would be "green". Dana's work tends to have a lot of lush foliage in it. The very first postcard for the gallery's very first exhibition was a lush green Dana Miller photo. One of my favorite photos hanging in my home is of a majestic Hamptons hedge. The green is somewhat paler, as it was shot in early Spring, but you can see the lushness creeping upwards from the roots of the hedges. I love it because it reminds me of when I like the Hamptons best - when it's cold and not many people are around and my dog Ollie can run wild at the deserted beach.

The algae crowding around these London Geese is another green entirely - it's so intensely pigmented as to seem unreal, and the dull-colored geese only accentuate its otherworldliness. It was a hard print to proof. We stood out in front of the gallery on Spring St. trying to use natural light to figure out what the most natural shade of this decidedly unnatural color was. You can't see it in the .jpg, but in natural light, in the real world, the texture of the algae is simply delightful. The texture and the color combine to make the sort of photo I like best, capturing something oddly beautiful that would have gone otherwise unnoticed.

We got a lot of great feedback yesterday - it's nice to hear that people are enjoying their prints so much! The biggest frustration so far seems to be the whole international shipping thing - rest assured, we are working on it! We want to get the whole process down pat on the home front before adding another layer of complexity. Fortunately the 20x200 crew is terrifyingly competent and hard-working, so I'm confident that it'll be sorted out soon.

And now, it's back to arranging the furniture, planning future editions and gearing up to bring you more 20x200 fun. Enjoy the rest of your week!

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