Tuesday greetings from an unseasonably balmy New York City. It's time for fresh 20x200 art, and yes, those are birds. We love birds. Don't you?

Today's edition, by downtown LA denizen Christina Muraczweski, is a reproduction of Polly, an original mixed media on canvas painting measuring 18"x24". The print is available in three sizes:

8.5"x11"
Edition of 200 each $20.

17"x22"
Edition of 20 each $200.

30"x40"
Edition of 2 each $2000.

20x200 is a small operation, albeit one with big ambitions. I'd like to say that we have a buzzing and efficient nerve-center with a curatorial calendar mapped out well into 2008, but we're not quite there yet. Each week's new editions are a bit of a surprise not only to you, dear readers, but also to the few (and proud!) 20x200 team members.

Noona, our shipping and customer service goddess, prefers that I don't spoil the surprise. Raul on the other hand, would probably enjoy a little more advance notice, as he's the one putting together the pages for our new editions. Instead, we're usually having a conversation over IM in the wee hours of the morning, as .jpgs, bios and links make their way from my Inbox to his. Last night's (well, technically this morning's) conversation went something like this:

Raul: re tomorrow... what's the plan
Jen: I just sent the stuff to your Gmail account...
[pause]
Raul: more birds
Raul: love this one
Jen: We should be planned through the end of the year by this time next week, cannot wait.
[Ed. note: Hopefully not wishful thinking.]
Jen: Last night I had these dreams, actually nightmares, that we had sold so many gift certificates
[Ed. note: Coming soon! Very, very soon!]
Jen: And we didn't have any inventory for people to use them on
Raul: ha
[Ed. note: For the record, we will have inventory aplenty for gift certificate recipients.]
Jen: just forwarded you the new .jpg for Christina.
Raul: and what is the medium of the original?
Jen: "POLLY", 2007, 18"x24", acrylic, marker, and glitter on canvas
Raul: our first edition made with glitter
Jen: haha. I like it.
Raul: [sends a link a preview of the page]
Jen: that is a winner
Jen: BIRDS
Jen: and woodgrain
Raul: with glitter

Raul might be smitten with the glitter, but it's the woodgrain that I love. All three of the pieces that Christina submitted included this element, and that's what caught my eye.

I've always had a thing for faux bois in art, occasionally in housewares and even in clothing. There's actually some more woodgrain goodness coming up in a future 20x200 edition, but like everyone who works with me, you're just going to have to wait and be surprised.

Speaking of woodsy things... Now seems a good time to mention 20x200 artist Beth Dow's fabulous review in this week's New Yorker. About her current exhibition, on view at Jen Bekman Gallery through December 8th, Vince Aletti says: Dow’s images of woods and fields nod to the landscape tradition reaching from Eugène Atget to Robert Adams, and their quiet beauty is underlined by the richness of her platinum-palladium prints...Her pictures of a lone tree in a row of stumps and a pile of smoking stubble under a sad gray sky aren’t just taken; they’re felt.

Tomorrow we're back with some more woodsy goodness. See you then!