Gurnee, IL, 2005 by Brian Ulrich

Photographer Brain Ulrich is part of a group exhibition, SIGNS, on view at the Mt Tremper Arts Festival. I've never heard of Mt Tremper before, but I do know New York state has lots of fascinatingly named towns. (Once, on my way to Buffalo, I got lost and ended up in Mexico. Yes, Mexico, New York.) Anyway, I did a little research and discovered that Mt Tremper is a hamlet located in the Catskills, boasts a Zen Mountain Monastery and lots of hiking trails. In other words, Mt Tremper sounds like a wonderful place to escape to. The Arts Festival is 10 days of performances, lectures, and dance classes.

Other photographer included in the SIGNS exhibition: Tim Davis, Walker Evans, Stephen Shore, Zoe Strauss, Matthew Pokoik, Shannon Ebner, Christian Patterson, and John Lehr

Mt Tremper Arts Festival
Mt. Tremper, NY,
July 19 - Aug 31, 2008

Brian's site
Brian's 20x200 edition: Untitled, Thrift 2006 (0635)

This little blogger is suddenly craving a soft pretzel.  Must be because as a former South Philly resident, and Spector gallery intern, I'm super pleased to share some news about 20x200 artist Todd St. John.  Todd is part of a traveling group exhibition entitled Big Kids/Little Kids, which recently opened at its third location, Subliminal Projects Gallery in Los Angeles (yes, Shepard Fairy's space).  

Big Kids/Little Kids chronicles the first 8 years of the newly emerging contemporary art movement in Philadelphia. It features artists from SPACE1026, 1Pixel, 222gallery and Spector (the galleries that have supported this energy) and artists from outside of Philly who have shown in these spaces by shaping and being influenced by this scene. 

The show will be up through August 8th: Subliminal Projects Gallery 1331 W Sunset Blvd LA, CA 90026

Todd's website

Todd's 20x200 edition print: Untitled (Black Blocks)

Image from Carlo Van de Roer's Swim series

Photographer Carlo Van de Roer has volunteered to teach 25 New York City High School students photography. The combined fruits of their labor will result in a portfolio of images produced by each student. A reception and exhibition will be held at the Art Directors Club Gallery Saturday July 19, from 6:30-8:30pm.

ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street
NY, NY

Carlo's site
Carlo's 20x200 edition prints:
Untitled (Bondi Baths, Sydney, Australia) 2007
Untitled (Astoria Park, Queens, New York)

Buongiorno!

Think fast! What is your favorite thing in New York? Got it? Great! Now consider helping 20x200 artist Jason Polan. He's currently collaborating with subscribers to ESOPUS art magazine. He's inviting subscribers to email him their favorite thing in New York City. This beloved thing should be submitted by Tuesday, July 15, (that's, like, very soon!) to make the cut and appear as a hand drawn image for the Fall 2008 ESOPUS. So hurry up and subscribe to ESOPUS and then email Jason! Helping an artist is a lovely way to begin the week!

More Jason here, and here and here!

Group, 2007 by Jacob Magraw
10 x 13 Inches, watercolor and gouache on paper

This week we featured an edition print by Jacob Magraw who just happens to have work up as we speak at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica. For those of you lucky collectors who are nearby, stop in and have a peek.

Summer Group Show @ Richard Heller
2525 Michigan Ave, B-5a
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310 453 9191

Brazil (try again), 2008
Ink and gouache on paper
30 x 22 in.

20x200 artist Ann Tarantino has work in a benefit show for Doctors Without Borders. The show, Mixology I: Paintings and Works on Paper, opens this weekend at Curator's Office in Washington, DC.

Curator's Office
1515 14th Street NW Suite 201
Washington, DC 20005
12 July 2008 to 19 July 2008
Opening: Saturday, July 12, 6:00 - 8:30

Ann's edition print: Breath Portrait (favorite colors)
Ann's website

Minds/Mines Don't Care, 2008. Photogram C-Print by Rebecca Loyche

Rebecca Loyche is part of an all female artist collective called tART who have organized a salon show opening tomorrow evening. If you happen to be in New York, hop on over to Rabbit Hole Studio in DUMBO. An added bonus: you'll also be able to see two of Olafur Eliasson's wonderful waterfalls on your way.

Rabbit Hole Studio
33 Washington Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
718.852.1500
July 3 - August 1, 2008
Opening: Thursday, July 3, 6-8pm

Gas Station by Tema Stauffer

For those of you nearer to the Potomac than the Hudson, Tema Stauffer will be showing work in DC at Randall Scott Gallery. The show will be up for two weeks, opening July 12th.

Randall Scott Gallery
1326 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
202.332.0806
Gallery hours:
Tuesday by appointment
Wednesday-Saturday 11am-6pm

Left: Lazuli Bunting, 2008, gouache on paper
Right: Yellow Headed Blackbird, 2008, gouache on paper

Lastly, for all of you Texas roses, Carrie Marill is showing new gouache paintings she made while on an artist residency, cleverly titled Resident Birds. The work is up now through July 19, 2008 at Conduit Gallery in Dallas.

Conduit Gallery
1626 C Hi Line Dr.
Dallas, TX 75207
214.939.0064
Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 10-5

UPDATE: Carrie Marill just got a nice write up about this show in the Dallas Morning News. Read the article here. Congrats to you, Ms Marill!

Brandon Herman’s cover photograph, Untitled (boy in pool), for Kaiserin Magazine

Ambitious 20x200 artists, Brandon Herman, and Noah Kalina have images out on the covers of two periodicals this week. Brandon has photographs in the current issue of Kaiserin, a bi-annual magazine that features emerging artists.

Noah has commissioned images of laboratories at night in science magazine SEED. Shoot! The Blog has an interview with Kalina about the work.

Noah Kalina's Kostiuk Laboratory, Planetary Astronomy, NASA Godard Space Flight

Both photographers were also Hey Hot Shot! winners, making me more convinced that there is indeed a correlation between these rising stars and their involvement with Jen Bekman.

Brandon's website
Brandon's 20x200 edition: Untitled (Suzie Hedge), 2006

Noah is here, there and everywhere
Noah's 20x200 edition: Untitled (LA20070805)

Left: Jayne Mansfield making headlines in Hackney, 1949
Right: Budgie, Luke Stephenson

It seems that birds are all the rage these days. Did you know that East London is noted for its love of pet birds? Neither did I until learning about a very John Waters-ish collaboration between Susanna Edwards and 20x200 artist Luke Stephenson.

The duo posted these flyers around Hackney in early May to solicit locals to bring their birds to be photographed and judged. The idea was to recreate an curious event that occurred 49 years ago, when Jayne Mansfield appeared in Hackney to hand out awards at the Best Budgerigar & Foreign Bird Competition.

The results of their efforts are on view in the Jayne Amongst the Birds exhibition which features photographs that Luke made of the brave birds. Here's a sneak peak of one of the winners, Bobby:

Believe it.

The show is on view at Tatty Devine today until August 17th.

Tatty Devine
236 Brick Lane
London
E2 7LH
June 27th to August 17th
Gallery Hours: 11am-6pm everyday

More photographs of Luke's feathered friends are also on display at Jen Bekman Gallery as part of the Summer group show Ornithology.

20x200 artists Doug and Mike Starn have been invited to create an installation for The Dalai Lama when he visits Aspen next month. I asked Mike Starn to talk a little about how he and Doug came to be involved in the project with Anderson Ranch Arts Center and how the idea for the installation manifested:

The fact that we make those [Buddhist] images and have been involved with Tibetan charities before is probably why we were asked to design the stage for HHDL. He likes to be surrounded by children’s art, so we designed an environment that the kids could make all the work for. It will be about 1200 prayer flags that they have painted and hundreds of snowflakes they have cutout underneath the flags and applied to a mural.

Image courtesy Kelly Cox/Post Independent

From the Glenwood Springs Post Independent:
“The kids are learning to be selfless,” Keohane said. “Which goes in line with what the Dalai is all about. I think that it’s a really great thing for these kids to put their artwork into the world to enhance other people’s lives.”

And how.

Read John Gardner's full article: Local kids make art for the Dalai Lama with Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts project

StarnStudio website

In case you were wondering, tickets for this event are sold out, but there will be a live web cast of the event offered from The Aspen Institute on July 26th.

Dye Pool, The Courts

A warm congratulations to photographer Beth Dow who is among the nominees for the 2009 Aperture West Book Prize.

Beth is presently working on a project about faked ruins in the American landscape. The Minnesota State Arts Board awarded Dow with a generous grant towards this new work. Double congratulations!

Beth is represented by Jen Bekman Gallery.
Images from her last solo show, Fieldwork, can be seen here.
Beth's 20x200 edition: Bags
Beth's website

Grassano #1, 31/10/2005 8:48

The Guardian selected 20x200 photographer Bert Teunissen to feature in the Arts section today.

Bert Teunissen: For the past 12 years I've been driving around Europe, building up an archive of houses whose interiors have not changed for decades. It is a project about light, and the era in which natural daylight dictated the architecture of a place, how it was used, and where you'd find the furniture. And, of course, I need the owners in the picture, because they are the people who keep it the way it is.

Eisenbach #1, 27/7/2005 15:34

Read Leo Benedictus' full interview here.

Bert is also part of the Ornithology group show opening this Wednesday June 25th at Jen Bekman Gallery.
Bert's website

Shapeshifter Series 1 by Amy Ross

If you happen to be in San Francisco be sure to wear flowers in your hair, and stop by Rare Device tonight to see sublime new work by Amy Ross.

Shapeshifter
June 6 - July 8, 2008
Reception: June 6, 2008, 7-9pm

Rare Device
1845 Market Street
San Francisco, CA

Amy's 20x200 edition: Manshroom
Amy's works on paper: Jen Bekman Gallery
Amy's website

20x200 artist and happy camper, Chi Birmingham, answered a few questions for us.

Where would you most like to live?
Since I was in high school I have wanted to live in New York. In August I moved to Brooklyn, and love living here. But the truth is that I have carved out a life for myself here that is very similar to the one I had before when I was living in Big Sur, California.

What is your idea of an ideal day?
I love camping. My favorite days have probably been the ones that I have spent entirely out of doors. There is something very satisfying about making total use of the available sunlight, and then going to bed when the sun goes down. I also like the little projects that are necessary on a camping trip. Daily tasks like washing dishes or making coffee become strange and novel challenges.

Who are your favorite characters in history?
Philosophers, Scientists, Inventors. You see pictures of these people in tweed coats milling around the confined little world of the university or the lab, but in the unseen world of ideas they are going places no one has ever been. As a fairly mild mannered fellow myself, I find this dichotomy reassuring.

Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
The heroines who have had the most direct impact on me have been my teachers: Paula Walling in elementary school, Mrs. Grecco in middle school, Elizabeth Rosengren in high school, and Kari Weil in college. All were women that were sincerely interested and engaged in the subject they were teaching. I could sense the satisfaction they got from their job, and it inspired me to look for something that would make me feel that way.

Your favorite painter?
I love the work of Giorgio Morandi. Fairfield Porter is another painter in a similar vein that I draw a lot of inspiration from. I have probably spent the most time looking at the work of Luc Tuymans. I keep a lot of his reproductions around the studio to work off of.

Do you listen to music when you paint?
Recently I have been listening to a lot of radio shows over the internet. I love to listen to the news, and countless hours in the studio gives me a good opportunity to explore the wide world of talk radio. I have been especially enjoying the Political Gabfest provided by Slate online magazine. PRI’s The Sound of Young America is another favorite. Also, if you have the time, Creative Screenwriting Magazine puts out an hour long interview with a contemporary screenwriter almost every week.

Which 20x200 artists do you most adore, and why?
Mike Perry is doing some great work. He has a great sense of design and I like that he seems to draw ideas from some of the less rarefied corners of visual culture (coloring books, mazes, 3D lettering). There is something beautiful in the way he elevates his humble source material, and his work reminds me of the pleasure I took in pouring over all manner of printed material when I was younger.

What are you working on?
Painting, of course, and a lot of drawing. But my most recent endeavor is an Online Painting Tutorial Site. I love to talk with people about the technical side of painting, but as you can imagine it isn’t always the sort of thing anyone wants to listen to, so I have been storing away my ideas on this Blog.

Can you share some thoughts behind your 20x200 edition, Studio Apartment?
Studio Apartment was painted in the first month after I moved in with the woman I am now engaged to. I was reexamining a lot of my daily routines and trying to find room for both of us in my single room cabin in the Big Sur. I didn’t know exactly what sort of relationship we would be able to carve out for ourselves around our artistic ambitions, but my hopes were represented in the layout of the shared workspace represented in Studio Apartment. On the right, Lorissa’s table is neatly organized for the work of writing. On the left my own desk is set up much the way I had it at the time. The urban setting was a bit of wishful thinking at the time, but it is not at all unlike the view we now see outside our Bushwick apartment.

Edition prints of Studio Apartment are still available for you here.

Chi's website.

Tree Tops, from the series Somewhere in Israel, by Curtis Mann
archival pigment print .

Recent 20x200 artist Curtis Mann is a featured artist in The Solo Project, a show opening today in Basel. Organized by Kusseneers Galerie from Belgium, it was planned to coincide with Art Basel to direct attention towards "a carefully selected group of artists, each presenting solo or collaborative projects."

The show represents "an array of 25 established galleries in both Europe and America in order to address a number of qualities" that Kusseneers Galerie "consider to be missing from the international art agenda. Its aims are to present artwork from an invited group of international galleries, who in turn have selected artists from their own gallery programme to make a presentation in a clear and defined manner".

To read the complete statement, visit The Solo Project

The Solo Project
June 2-June 8
Voltahalle
Voltastrasse 27
4056 Basel
Switzerland

Two of Curtis' large edition prints remain, and are available over here.

ny.08.#05 by Jennifer Sánchez

Atlanta collectors, you're in for a treat: Jennifer Sánchez is showing three of her newest paintings at Soho Myriad's group show, Intricacies, which opened just this past Friday in your fine city. If you think her 20x200 prints ny.07.#20 and ny.07.#34 look amazing online, just wait till you see her paintings in person; I guarantee you'll be knocked out.

P.S. We've got the originals of both her 20x200 editions for sale—please email collector AT 20x200.com if you're interested. ny.07.#20 is all sold out, but we've still got two prints of ny.07.#34 in large, so grab one while you still can.

Intricacies @ Soho Myriad
1250 Menlo Drive
Atlanta, Georgia 30318
May 2 to September

We here at Jen Bekman World Domination HQ are by nature rather excitable when it comes to people making their art affordable and therefore accessible, so it's pretty great that Tommy Perman's got a pack of postcards for sale. For £8 you get 16 tiny prints of drawings he's made over the past five years—including a small version of his recent 20x200 edition, Trucks, Seattle, which we'd be more than happy to send you a 8.5" x 11" print of for just $20. Bargains all around!

P.S. Not to gender-stereotype or anything—especially since I was the kind of little girl that had collections of GI Joes and Micro Machines—and hopefully this isn't an overshare but: wow, writing this post + my biological clock = totally making me fantasize about having a little boy and hanging Tommy's Trucks and postcards in his bedroom. How cute would that be? Pretty darn cute, I say.

Giraffes Thing by Jason Polan

The super awesome Mr Jason Polan and his equally amazing friend Derek Erdman have a two-man show opening today in Chicago, and here are three reasons why you should go:

1. Jason's Hand Project manages to be both one of the most fun and most interesting 20x200 editions—each print is actually a one-of-the-kind original! As Jen said in her newsletter: "Thinking about my hand, and everything (yes, everything!) it allows me to do, thinking about a photocopier as an artist's tool, recognizing the immediacy, intimacy and authenticity that springs from the in-person interaction required for an actual handshake - these are all things I'm happy to notice and to honor."
2. I've never met him or even had an online conversation with him, but the stuff Derek puts online cracks me up. Check out one of his drawings from last month, for example: Jason Polan in a Pith Helmet.
3. There will be a book accompanying the exhibition, which you can get there. Or you can email the artists, but if you're in town you should just go to the show—you'll see their stuff in person and save postage too! Win-win.

Oh, and one more thing: Jason says there will be snacks! Art + snacks, what more could you possibly want? So here are the details:

ART SHOW

All new work by Derek Erdman and Jason Polan

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5-7pm

Hollander Fireproof Warehouses
1624 W. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL

Wave Fade by Todd St. John

20x200 edition maker Todd St. John has two pieces in the Big Kids/Little Kids travelling show that ends its run in Brooklyn's Cinders gallery on May 4th. Curated by John Freeborn, the show focuses on current work by 38 artists represented in Freeborn's Big Kids/Little Kids book as helping shape and inspire the first eight years of Philadelphia's underground arts scene by working or showing in its spaces.

Todd created a limited edition hand-screen printed dust jacket of Big Kids/Little Kids; each of the 50 copies of the 120-page book is signed and numbered by Todd, and is available for $30 + shipping, which is a great deal. Perhaps even better: we still have prints of his super stylish 20x200 edition Untitled (Black Blocks) available in all sizes, and our prices start at just $20.

ny.07.#34 by Jennifer Sánchez

Fans of Jennifer Sánchez*, if you find yourself in Chi-town this coming weekend for Art Chicago 2008, please make sure to check out her work at its newest sibling NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, which will be occupying the entire 7th floor of the same venue. Here's a bit more about it: "More international than any other young fair of contemporary art to date, NEXT boasts galleries from every important art city in the world, including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Warsaw and Bucharest."

Alas, Jennifer won't be in town herself to press the flesh, but her mesmerizing paintings will be on display at Kinsey/DesForges, booth #7-9038.

*I know there are lots of you out there because both her 20x200 editions are completely sold out, save the two large prints + the original of ny.07.#34—so grab one while you still can!

http://www.christinamuraczewski.com/
If you happen to be one of our dedicated Los Angeles collectors be sure to stop by 20x200 artist Christina Muraczewsi's space at Open Studio 2008.

May 3rd-4th 12pm-6pm
Santa Fe Art Colony
2401 South Santa Fe Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90058

Christiana's prints on 20x200 are almost sold out but there are still a few medium and large sized prints of Daisy and Polly available. The Polly original is also still available.

Muraczewski has just launched a brand new website.

Kate Bingaman-Burt is all about Obsessive Consumption—she's made a personal brand out of drawing her purchases and credit card bills—so it only makes sense that she was last week's Featured Buyer over at Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade things.

I love the graphic she made to go with the Etsy piece, which incorporates her drawings of things she's bought off the site, just as I love her blog (everyone should have one, and hers is great!), her 20x200 editions Carts #1 and I Bought All of These, and her solo show at Jen Bekman Gallery last fall; everything Kate puts out has this amazing energy and sense of fun and whimsy that makes me so happy just to look at them. Sounds cheesy, I know, but it's totally true.

Tote Bags by Dustin Hostetler (left) and Fernanda Cohen (right)

20x200 edition makers Dustin Hostetler (a.k.a. UPSO) and Fernanda Cohen are two of the many artists with pieces in OPEN SPACE Beacon's current Tote / Bag show, which aims to raise environmental awareness and encourage us to "switch from a disposable society to one which reduces, reuses and recycles."

Dustin created one bag for the show and Fernanda made two (1, 2); all three are available for $100 and proceeds from the sale of the show will be donated to Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a non-profit which conducts environmental education, advocacy programs and celebrations to protect the Hudson River, its tributaries and related bodies of water.

P.S. We've still got prints of Dustin's Color Study #4 and Fernanda's Hot Dog and I available, if you'd like to see more of their work! I think they're both splendid, they're two of my all-time favorite 20x200 editions.

Goucher Glacier, by Aili Schmeltz

LA-based artist Aili Schmeltz has been kind enough to grace us with not one but two beautiful 20x200 editions examining her love/hate relationship with the city she lives in: last November's Radar and the piece that opened this month, Embedded, both now only available in the medium and large sizes. If you like Aili's work as much as we do and find yourself in Baltimore this month, please stop by the Rosenberg Gallery, where she's installed her large piece Goucher Glacier as part of the group show Ethnography of No Place. The exhibit is open weekdays from 9 to 5, and closes Friday, May 2nd.

20x200 artist, and favorite person who hangs around the office, Jason Polan is featured on Cool Hunting today. They spotlight his 20x200 Hand Project among many of his other excellent artistic ventures. The still above is from Jason's video How to Draw an Apatosaurus.

Ky Anderson is one of my favorite 20x200 artists. Her work manages to be simultaneously funny and formal. Dale Conour interviews Ms. Anderson on his blog Emerson (which he states is devoted to finding the New Romantics). It's a super interview on landscape painting, the nature of inspiration, storytelling, dreams, sex, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Don't miss it.

Ky Anderson's website
Many Mountains, Ky's 20x200 edition.

20x200 artist Kelly Shimoda was recently featured in a Blue Eyes Magazine piece titled Last Saturday Night. It documents the closing of New York's last remaining roller skating rinks. This documentary work has a somewhat different feel than some of the other elegant enigmatic sets found on her personal website. More on Shimoda can be found on PDN where she is called a 'rising star'.

Prints in her 20x200 edition Hanoi #2 are still availalbe

Kate Bingaman-Burt and Mike Perry from Ethan Bodnar on Vimeo.

Design Notes says of Ethan Bodner's film about 20x200 artists Kate Bingaman-Burt and Mike Perry, "Finally a design film worth watching." Read more on Design Notes.

Prints available: Mike Perry's Optical 01 and Kate Bingaman-Burt's I Bought All of These

20x200 artist Linzie Hunter has posted some of her lettering sketchbooks on flickr. Great stuff if you are into hand lettering. Her flickr stream is one of our favorites around here. (via Coudal)

Linzie's 20x200 prints: Say Goodbye, Boundless

Manshroom, by Amy Ross

If you're in Seattle tomorrow, April the 3rd, you really should drop by PUNCH Gallery for the opening of their latest show Animal Spell, featuring the work of Justin Gibbens and Amy Ross: "Referencing early wildlife and botanical illustration, both artists demonstrate their own distinctive versions of a subversive natural history."

Amy, who is represented by Jen Bekman Gallery, did one of our earliest 20x200 editions, last year's strange and awesomely compelling Manshroom. It's completely sold out in the small size (I am still kicking myself for missing it) but still available in both medium and large—the latter is an especially wonderful bargain because instead of a print, you'll be getting a completely original collage! 20x200 is all about the great deals, you know, but this one is almost too good to be true.

Anyway, you can see many examples of Amy's work and read about her process on her blog Nature Morph, and even get a sneak peek at some of the pieces that will be in Animal Spell tomorrow! The watercolors are all beautiful, delicate and weird (my favorite is called Birch with Birdshrooms) but oh, how I love the collages...

Sparrow Rudbeckia 2 by Amy Ross (detail), watercolor on paper, 30x22 inches, private collection.

Painter and most all-around splendid artist, Amy Ross is gearing up for her her new two-person show at Romo Gallery, which opens on October 18 and will be on view until November 24. For those that live in and around Atlanta, or will be in town during the exhibition, you should definitely go see Amy's work in person. Romo will also be taking Amy's work to Aqua Art Miami in December.

Amy had a solo show in New York with Jen Bekman earlier in the Spring and traveled with the gallery to the Scope Art Fair: Hamptons. The "Sparrow Rudbeckia" and 'Goldfinch Magnolia" below, were some of the work shown at each exhibition.

Detail of Goldfinch Magnolia #2, watercolor on paper, 30x22 inches, private collection.

Amy Ross has a website and writes a blog where you can see more of her art and learn more about her work.

If the sight of all of Amy's wonderful paintings gets you salivating, her collages are quite something as well. She will be showing some brand new ones in Atlanta, and because the world is good, her wonderful Manshroom is still available.

Manshroom by Amy Ross, archival pigment ink print on Crane Museo Portfolio Rag Paper.

Amy on her 20x200 edition,

I saw the prints from 20x200 over at the gallery, and my Manshroom collage at 16x20 inches is, simply put, divine. The print quality is to die for. It is amazing to see the small collages at such a large scale, and it got the old creative wheels turning and churning, which is just the sort of inspiration I was looking for. I'm very excited to be part of this project which has gotten a ton of good press lately and deserves every good word written about it. I know I'm biased, but I have seen the goods, and they are good.

There is no reason to wait.
Click here to buy one for yourself.