Boundless, by Linzie Hunter

A teeth-chattering hello from NYC, where a cold winter wind is chilling us to the bone. Today's edition, by international sensation Linzie Hunter, combines words and humor and a touch of geekery. In other words: it's awesome.

Enter the World of Boundless Sensual Enjoyments is an original illustration that Linzie created exclusively for 20x200. You can hop on over to the main site and buy one now.

The editions are printed on 100% cotton rag paper using archival inks and are 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.

I wrote about Linzie over on Personism at the end of October, after discovering her Flickr set of Spam One-Liners via the excellent illustration blog Drawn. As I said then, my predilection for pictures made of words and the poetry of spam meant that I fell in love with Linzie's work instantly.

A friend emailed me after my post and said "How about a Linzie Hunter edition?" To which I replied: "I'm on it!" And I was... I had already emailed Linzie about doing an edition and was happy to get an enthusiastic yes.

Since our getting to yes, Ms. Hunter has gotten scads of attention. The blogosphere went mad for the drawings, and just this past Sunday trend-tracking Rob Walker wrote a Consumed column about her for the The New York Times Magazine.

Linzie and I have similar habits - she's a workaholic night owl who doesn't mind burning midnight oil on fun projects. I received emails and files from her at the most preposterous times. (And it wasn't just because of the time difference between here and London, where she lives and works.) It was really fun to work with her, and her hard-working ways made it possible for us to offer you a fresh, original piece in just a few short weeks. (And there's another one in the hopper too!)

For today, I invite you to Enter the World of Boundless Sensual Enjoyments, relax a bit and prepare yourselves for Part II of the 20x200 British Invasion, which will arrive tomorrow in photographic form.

Running Track, by James Deavin

Welcome to Part II of British Invasion week at 20x200. Today we are featuring Running Track. This is a brand new photograph from London-based Jen Bekman artist James Deavin, from his ongoing series The Games We Play.

One thing to keep in mind, especially since our editions are selling faster and faster: members get a running start (har, har) on purchasing their prints. Our newsletter goes out a few hours before editions debut on the 20x200 homepage.

The photograph is available in three sizes, all of which are printed on super fine 100% cotton rag paper, using archival inks:

8.5"x11"
Edition of 200 each $20.

17"x22"
Edition of 20 each $200.

30"x40"
Edition of 2 each $2000.

Running Track has much in common with Velodrome, which is one of my favorite photographs ever. This is really saying something, as I look at a whole lot of photos, many of them via Hey, Hot Shot!. Incidentally, the Summer 2005 Edition of Hey, Hot Shot! is how I became acquainted with both Velodrome and subsequently, Mr. Deavin himself.

All the photos from The Games We Play are stunning - I love how clean, cool and surreal the images are. The first time I saw them I spent a good deal of time trying to figure out if they were actually photos. (Yes.) If they were manipulated (No.) And just where they were taken? (Velodromes and cricket pitches not being venues I'm terribly familiar with.)

I've been looking at the work for a couple of years now and I'm still not bored with it, and that's saying something too - as someone who exhibits dozens of photographs a year, falling in and out of (or just less in) love with images comes with the territory.

Running Track is a bit of a problem for me. I want it, I want it bad and I want it big. Alas with only two at the largest size available, I'm going to have to set my own desires aside and let a couple of bold 20x200 collectors step to the head of the line.

Normally this is where I'd bid you adieu till next Tuesday, but I have a hunch that you'll be hearing from me again before this week is through. We've got some juicy 20x200 news cooking - holiday treats and exciting new features are in store. I'm not ready to spill the beans right this minute, but I'm pretty sure that I won't be able to wait until next week to spread the news. So, be on the lookout!

Until then I recommend browsing editions from our inventory. Add some to your holiday wish list and clinch your spot as the most popular secret Santa ever - give the gift of art!

Say Goodbye to Love Failures and Loneliness, by Linzie Hunter

Season's Greetings, 20x200 collectors. Welcome to our extra special surprise bonus holiday edition, aka: The British Invasion, Part the Third. In this latest installment of our saga, 20x200 mounts a clever counterattack:

We are now shipping to Canada and the UK!
(More countries to be added soon, too.)

On this steely-skied Friday afternoon, we are awfully pleased to be able to offer up some more Linzie Hunter goodness. Say Goodbye to Love Failures and Loneliness is our second exclusive limited edition from Linzie's Spam One Liners series.

The Certificates of Authenticity are signed. The prints are printed... by a super talented fine art printer, using archival inks, on a delightful 100% cotton rag paper as per usual. The expertly designed stickers are stocked and ready to be stuck. NoonaCo has everything in hand, and is ready to ship you a package full of 20x200 goodness.

So don't delay, Say Goodbye to Love Failures and Loneliness Today. If you've never been so fond of Goodbyes, fear not: there is lots of other excellent art to choose from.

We have more holiday surprises in store for next week, some of which are especially good for the master procrastinators among us. (Count me in!) We'll be back early in the week with good news and fresh art. Until then: bon weekend!

amnh #30, by Joseph O. Holmes

Holiday madness continues apace here at 20x200 HQ. We're starting the week off with a bonus edition, amnh #30 from internet-famous Joseph O. Holmes, he of the fast-selling Prospect Park photograph presented to you just a few short weeks ago.

Considering the speed at which the last edition of Joe's sold, you might consider moving quickly if this is a photo you admire and want for your very own. I'm still getting cranky emails from pals who were asleep at the wheel when Joe's first edition was announced, thus missing the opportunity to buy a small or medium edition of his print. (The big guys are still available however.)

amnh #30 is from Joe's awfully popular series of silhouettes shot in front of the glorious dioramas at The Museum of Natural History. The photographs are printed with archival inks on a substantial 100% cotton rag paper, and are available in three sizes.

Like empty swimming pools and gas stations, dioramas and/or taxidermied creatures are a popular subject amongst photographers emerging and established. Doing it well is tricky. Animal Logic by the estimable Richard Barnes is a good example of an exploration of the theme that blows me away.

I'm quite taken with Joe's project too, but for very different reasons. The Barnes work has a more ominous pull for me, while Joe's work taps into my unending nostalgia and affection for the museum. As a city kid, I spent a lot of weekend afternoons roaming those halls and being mesmerized by the creatures set against those distinctive painted backdrops.

By setting people against the creatures against the backdrops, Joe gets meta in a way that puts me right back there. I'm transported to a time when I coveted plastic dinosaurs and dreamed of getting to have a spooky sleepover in those majestic rooms. (Now that I think of it plastic dinosaurs and museum sleepovers still seem pretty swell...)

This particular image, with the kid's ears so pointedly prominent, reminds me of Alfalfa and pinching, poking, fidgeting lines of kids grudgingly holding hands two-by-two, while proceeding across marble floors. Alfalfa might not be timeless, but those field trips sure are - I bet there's a class or two disgorging from yellow school buses and marching up those grand stairs right this very minute.

As for me, right this minute: I need to move on! The last season of Hey, Hot Shot! makes its debut at the gallery tomorrow evening at 6pm, so it's time to bust out the levels and the drills and put art on walls.

As for 20x200, if having your art on hand for Christmas Day is a priority, this is your last week to get those orders in. Speaking of priority...

We highly recommend that you choose Priority Mail when shipping.

The Post Office is madness right now, and First Class can be awfully slow going. Priority Mail doesn't just expedite your precious art, but it gives you a tracking number so you can monitor your precious cargo as it makes its way to your door.

I'm back tomorrow with more art and some other goodies, so be on the lookout!

Pollution Post Unlimited, by Andrew MacRae

Belated greetings collectors, and please accept my apologies for today's late announcement. My day so far has been a frenzy of hanging photos and arguing with various shippers about the picking up and dropping off of things.

I'm sure it'll all come together in time for this evening's reception for the Fall Edition of Hey, Hot Shot!, it always does. Five years of gallery owning and it's still usually a mad scramble to the finish line. I suppose that's part of the fun, isn't it?

Enough about my 11th hour ministrations and on with the art! Today's edition is a fine art reproduction from California artist Andrew MacRae, an artist entirely unknown to me before he submitted his work to 20x200. The print, available in three sizes, is an archival pigment print on 100% cotton rag paper.

The original painting, Pollution Post Unlimited, is an acrylic, watercolor, gouache and ink on canvas work measuring 11"x24" and is also available for purchase. Email collector@20x200.com if you'd like more information about it.

I have more to say about this painting, and promise to do so later tonight, after the opening is closed and the photographers, interns and I are sufficiently sated by pizza and perhaps a beer or two as well.

Check out the 20x200 blog in the wee hours of the morning if you're dying to hear more from me. If you're not, which is completely within the realm of possibility, enjoy Pollution Post Unlimited. Tomorrow Friday we'll deliver you an action packed bonus email featuring a spectacular edition and an exciting, anxiously-awaited announcement. Until then!

Untitled (Astoria Park, Queens, New York), by Carlo Van de Roer

Friday is upon us, already and not a moment too soon. It's been a heck of a week and I'm happy to wrap things up on a high note. Today I bring you two shots of holiday cheer: Carlo Van de Roer's delightful Untitled pool photo from his gorgeous Swim series and the introduction of our highly anticipated gift certificates.

Carlo's photo is printed on 100% cotton rag paper and is available in three sizes. It is the perfect antidote to the Winter weather that's been with us here in NYC over these past few days. Open your eyes and imagine yourself there instead of turning up your collar against a penetrating wind on lower Broadway.

This photo evokes the tropics, some far off posh spot... until you stumble onto that parenthetical to the untitled, where its humble origins are revealed. As I just said to someone via email "Carlo's pool reminds me that everything exists in New York. An endless expanse of turquoise water, real or manufactured, seems like the last thing you'd find in our gritty metropolis, but it's right here. (And in Queens no less!) And I also like imagining sultry Summer days while being pelted with hail."

I am just about to head west, Midwest actually, to where the winter weather is even winterier and photographers are in abundance. But one last thing before I go:

Our nifty new gift certificates are up and running. Get them here http://www.20x200.com/giftcertificates. Now you can give print credits, for 1 print, or 2 or 20 or however many you wish. And what better gift than art?

If you've already picked out the perfect print for that lucky someone there's still time - prints shipped via priority mail today or tomorrow should arrive just in the nick of time.

We're not quite done with our holiday spectacular either! I will be back at the very beginning of the week with the last few editions of the year. They're super good too, so oddly enough, I kind of can't wait for Monday. (Kind of...)

Till then: bon weekend!!!

Many Mountains, by Ky Anderson

Special Monday Holiday Edition: Ky Anderson

Monday before Monday before Christmas greetings, collectors! I am writing to you from arty, icy Minneapolis (the point of origin for all those divine 20x200 prints you've been receiving) where our fine fine-art printer, Eric Recktenwald and I have been making been plans for '08 editions.

Today's edition Many Mountains, by Brooklyn-based painter Ky Anderson, is our second-to-last edition for 2007. We've got one more Very Special Photo Edition coming tomorrow, and then it's high time for a holiday break. We'll come roaring back with fresh editions in the first week of the new year.

Many Mountains is based on a 28" x 28" painting. (The original is also available for purchase - Email collector AT 20x200 DOT com for more info.) The prints are created with archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper and are available in three sizes.

Since my hours in Minneapolis are dwindling, I'm going to save my thoughts on Ky's work for a later post, once I'm settled back in NYC.

If you must have some 20x200 reading material right! this! minute! have a look at today's Metro NY which has a article featuring a few NY-centric 20x200 editions.

As I said, I'll be back tomorrow with a photo edition for you. See you then!

Untitled, Thrift 2006 (0635), by Brian Ulrich

Hello, my collector friends and welcome to the very last 20x200 edition of 2007. We were originally scheduled to bring you the photographic stylings of Mr. Ulrich yesterday, but a sudden surge in popularity make site operations a little hinky. Many thanks to VSL and design*sponge among others, for too much of a good thing.

Back to the business at hand! Today I am really very pleased and thrilled to present to you Untitled, Thrift 2006 (0635), a digital c-print by Brian Ulrich available exclusively to 20x200 collectors. The edition is available in 3 sizes and each print comes with a Certificate of Authenticity signed and numbered by the artist:

10"x8"
Edition of 200 each $20.

22"x17"
Edition of 20 each $200.

40"x30"
Edition of 2 each $2000.

Your heart might be newly set on giving the gift of Thrift for the holidays. If so, email shipping@20x200.com to inquire about Express Shipping (something we'll soon offer regularly, but we're not quite there yet.)

Being able to offer such an affordable edition from someone as widely exhibited and published as Brian is pretty much rocks. He was one of the first people to express interest in participating in the project when I started talking about it back in April, and I was naturally keen to bring him on board.

I've known Brian since the early days of the gallery. Referred to me by The Soth, Brian first showed me his amazing work back in 2003 or so. I loved the photos and thought Brian was most swell, but my wee gallery wasn't really spacious enough for his big, beautiful prints.

Regardless of that, a friendship was forged. We became blog buddies and he wrote me one of the most fabulous recommendation letters I've ever seen, introducing me to Alice Wells, a beloved member of the JB family to this day. Brian finally, at long last, exhibited at the gallery this past Summer in an exhibition I co-curated with Jörg Colberg, A New American Portrait.

This photo is from Brian's Thrift series, a subset of his ongoing project about American consumerism Copia. I have a long history of scouring thrift stores for pottery and housewares. My friend Kim and I have spent hours wandering from Goodwill to Salvation Army in the gritty post-industrial landscape of upstate NY's northern counties. Thrift conjures up memories, albeit in a scary movie sort of way, of the long days spent in a rattly Civic wagon on the hunt for overlooked treasures.

The photos in this series trigger the creeping claustrophobia I often feel when rifling through shelves of grubby glassware and tchotckes. It's not just the "OMG! Cooties!" skin-crawly feeling of pawing other people's stuff that gets me. It's also how much of it there is (so! much!) and how it makes me feel (guilty) about everything I consume and discard myself.

My ambivalence about consumption is on high alert this time of year. I love gift giving (not to mention getting) but always recoil sometime in this latter part of December as the buy! buy! buy! imperative reaches its inevitable fever pitch.

Unsurprisingly, art is the gift I'm giving this year, and as I see it, it's pretty much guilt free. Generally speaking, art's a keeper. Aside from that, supporting artists is vital and feels awfully good. As I've been saying since 2003, I really and truly believe that living with art is good for you.

So give good this holiday season. There's lot to love in our archives and though we can't guarantee it, Priority shipments that go out today and tomorrow have a good chance of making it under the tree in time. If you want to be absolutely sure that you don't show up empty handed, gift certificates are just the thing.

I want to sign off with a big fat THANK YOU to you, our collectors, for your enthusiastic response to 20x200. I've gotten so many amazing emails and had so many awesome conversations with people about how happy they were to get their art.

As I can personally attest, the joy of collecting art is sometimes hard to get until you actually have some art in your hot little hands. But when you do get it, wowsers. I love thinking about 20x200 prints going up on hundreds of walls, making the lives of the people living within them a little richer.

Here's to a great 2008, rich with art for everyone.