Untitled, from Nina Berman's Homeland Insecurity Series

For those of you close to New York, a summer trip to Dia:Beacon is always a treat. What would make this trip even better? A visit to Fovea where documentary photographer Nina Berman is part of a group show.

Dispatches from the Frontlines: 12 Women Photojournalists, is on view at the Fovea space through August 3rd.

Popular Photography's blog has a little article about the show.

Fovea Editions Beacon Gallery
143 Main Street
Beacon New York 12508
845 765 2199

Nina's website
Nina's 20x200 edition: 9-11-02
Nina's images on JenBekman.com

Le Hermitage Painting by HHS! winner Roc Herms Pont

Holy Cannoli! The winners of the first edition of Hey, Hot Shot! 2008 have been announced:

Juliane Eirich
Derek Henderson
Roc Herms Pont
Kate Orne
Colleen Plumb

The opening reception will be held on Friday, August 8. The show will be on view at Jen Bekman Gallery through August 23.

Ornithology postcard image by Carrie Marill

This year our summer group show is united around things that fly, specifically those belonging to the branch of zoology known as Ornithology. Jen Bekman Gallery will be showing paintings, drawings and photographs from a talented lot, some of whom you already know from their 20x200 editions.

Artists in the exhibition:
Echo Eggebrecht | Todd Forsgren | Laura Levine | Carrie Marill | Christina Muraczewski | Victoria Neel | Lamar Peterson | Jason Polan | Amy Ross | Alec Soth | Amy Stein | Keith Taylor | Bert Teunissen | Luke Stephenson

The show opens Wednesday June 25th from 6-8pm, and I hope you get to use this wonderful word or·ni·thol·ogy in a sentence soon. Something akin to, "I'm sorry, I don't have time for a cup of tea, I'm on my way to see Ornithology". Rhyming is entirely optional. Finding exceptional art is a given.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, New York 10012

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6pm

Pollution Post Unlimited by Andrew MacRae

Friends, if you're all OMG! TGIF! today because you've been cooped up working indoors all week while the weather's (finally) been lovely outside, I feel your pain. Before letting you go for the weekend though, I feel like it's my duty to point out that if you still haven't signed up to receive our fantastic newsletters yet, you're missing out. I mean, our newsletters, all missives straight from our fearless leader Jen Bekman, alert you to our newest editions before they appear on the site! We've had some recent editions sell out almost immediately after the newsletter started hitting inboxes—Luke Strosnider's Every Chair At the Visual Studies Workshop, Carlo van de Roer's Bondi Baths, two pieces by the Starn twins were all gone within minutes—so signing up for our early warning system is the only way to ensure you have a chance greater than zero of getting particular pieces.

Our Raul wrote some notes on quick selling editions last week and it's well worth a read, especially if you missed out on one of those pieces I mentioned earlier! And if you did, maybe you will take some consolation in the fact that I did too—so when I say I know how you feel, I really really do. There are precious few prints left of Andrew MacRae's beautiful Pollution Post Unlimited (view larger image), maybe snapping one up right now before anyone else does will assuage the pain.

20x200's just a few months old and we've already put out so much work by so many amazing artists, and so many of you have purchased prints that we'd love to see who you are and what you've done with them, so please join the newly-created 20x200 Group on Flickr and let us know where our lovely prints have gone home to! In your hands, on your desk or on your wall—just show us what you've got.

Upload your photos now! Operators are standing by.

As of last night, 20x200 is bringing the international flavor in a big way. We've been shipping to the UK and Canada for a while now. Unsurprisingly, denizens of other nations want their affordable art too!

We now offer Priority and Express shipping of our small and medium prints to the following fine countries (rates vary):

Australia
Belgium
Denmark
England (UK)
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Iceland
India
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Malaysia
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Northern Ireland (UK)
Norway
The Philippines
Portugal
Scotland (UK)
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Wales (UK)

If your country isn't on this list and you're jonesing for 20x200 prints (you know you are), fear not! Send a note to shipping at 20x200 dot com and request that we add you. We'll get right on it.

Hello art lovers and welcome! My name is Mike and I will be assisting here on the blog, helping to fill you in on updates and exciting tidbits as well as all the latest with artists and new editions.

Since Jen announced the launch of 20x200 on Personism back in April, we have all been anxiously awaiting the reveal of her latest project. A lot of buzz has followed and it's fantastic that we are finally here.

I had the chance to attend a status meeting midway during the process with Jen and the rest of the 20x200 team, and sat in a trance as they engaged in a rapid spitfire of debate over a slew of technical, aesthetic and logistical issues. You can find a nice rendition of the development and creation process from chief orchestrator extraordinaire, Raul: here.

Fast-forward a couple of months later, and we have live editions up-and-running, with many admirers already gushing over the work available for purchase. (Gallery Hopper and artist Matthew Langley are pining for Tema Stuaffer, and Amy Stein has quickly grabbed an Amy Ross print for herself, while others are trying their best not to succumb to the temptation for as long as they can.)

A recapitulation of this week's 20x200 mentions:

Todd Walker of Gallery Hopper:

"Whatever reservations I have about the value of 20X200 to the participating artists and photographers, from a purely materialistic impulse, it's hard to pass up a 16"x20" Tema Stauffer print for $200."

Melissa Lyttle from APhotoADay.org has this to say about Jen and 20x200:

I like that she's trying to make art affordable as well as trying to get the public to support emerging artists. It's a win-win.

Photographer Amy Stein :

It will be interesting to see how hungry the masses are for art in large editions at low prices, but I know I will keep coming back for more.

The big Wall Street collectors may be hurting these days, but that shouldn't stop us hoi polloi from getting into the game and start building our own collections.

Notcot.org, the community of design lovers and the congnescenti's guide to instantaneous fixes on art, technology, and products, loves 20x200 and Amy Ross. Danconnortown says that 20x200 makes available: "Great art at great prices."

UnBeige's Alissa Walker gives praise to Jen and finds meaning in her life.

If there's one person who keeps us going every day when we're confronted with this crusty old keyboard and an empty screen, it's UnBeige founder Jen Bekman. Because if this whole blogging thing doesn't work out, we think, hey, maybe we'll go on to run a famous gallery in New York. And maybe we'll start a new affordable art experiment like 20x200, which just launched in semi-super-secret mode with artists like Kate Bingaman-Burt. And maybe it'll get covered in magazines like Dwell and Good.

Although, we wonder, if we did all those things, would Bekman realize that we're blatantly ripping her off?

Still...to dream.