Edition Announcement #33- UPSO

Tuesday Edition: Dustin Amery Hostetler (UPSO)

Sniffling-sneezing-coughing-aching-but-I-can't-rest greetings, collectors. I am all flu-ish and fuzzy-headed today, and yes, it's true, I'm feeling a little sorry for myself. I had big plans for the day and I'm now trying to reassess how many of those plans might be executed while lying on my couch, sipping tea and sniffling. Sniff.

One thing that can be achieved for sure is this here edition announcement, announcing a cheerfully bright and vaguely creepy (in a good way!) original piece by the amazingly multi-talented artist + illustrator Dustin Amery Hostetler aka UPSO.

Color Study #4 is available as a limited edition exclusively through 20x200 and is available in 3 sizes. The prints were made using archival inks on 100% cotton rag paper.

Dustin is shockingly prolific; he's an artist (with a solo show coming up: i will miss you when im gone opens at Wootini in March), an illustrator, a designer, an art annual publisher, a maker of cool t-shirts and I think maybe a music mogul as well. In other words, he's clearly not a fan of the sleeping.

I have a fairly voracious and indiscriminate appetite when it comes to art + design, but my knowledge of the t-shirt, toy, snowboard/skatedeck realms is admittedly limited. Dustin submitted his work to 20x200 and thereby broadened my horizons. (OK, first I felt a little old and square, and then I broadened my horizons.) Broadened horizons aside, Dustin and I have an important thing in common: we both really believe in this whole "art for everyone" idea.

Color Study #4 fits nicely with the other illustration + design-oriented editions we've done so far: Last week's Black Blocks by Todd St. John, Linzie Hunter's Say Goodbye and Boundless spam-lines drawings, Optical 01 by Mike Perry. But to be a bit of contrarian, to hell with what goes with what! I hope that 20x200 collectors are open to having their horizons broadened as well, which is why we've shown a diverse array of styles and mediums in our short history.

We'll continue to show more, and more after that. In fact, I have more to come tomorrow, in the form of a super cool (practically freezing in fact) photo. For now, I'm back to my sipping and sniffling.

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