The Office
by Rebecca Loyche

When you say it's gonna happen now
Well, when exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone
The Smiths

How Soon Is Now? is truly one of my favorite songs (I'll spare you the painful teen memories), and more to the point, has been borrowed to title an exhibition of emerging artists at The Bronx Museum of the Arts which includes 20x200 artist Rebecca Loyche.

How Soon Is Now?
June 1 – August 18, 2008
1040 Grand Concourse
165 Street, Bronx, NY

We still have prints available for you from Rebecca.

Welwitchia Mirabilis #0707-22411 by Rachel Sussman

Unsurprisingly, Rachel Sussman's 20x200 edition from earlier this week, Towards Christiana (Copenhagen), is sold out in all but the largest sizes already. The collectors who get the large ones are lucky ducks though — it just so happens that Rachel's photographs are particularly fantastic as big prints. Of course you should take my word on it, but why not see it with your own eyes?

If you're a NYer, or are planning on visiting our fair city any time this month, make your way to Michael Steinberg Fine Art over in Chelsea where you can see ginormous, delicious prints from Rachel's ongoing The Oldest Living Things in the World series.

For over a year now, Rachel's been "researching, working with biologists, and traveling around the world to photograph living organisms, aged 2000 years old and older." I love that she's chronicling her adventures on her project blog, as well as accepting frequent flier mile donations to offset what must be tremendous travelling expenses—if you've got any to spare, please consider sending them her way! "You'll receive a special limited edition print," she says, "in addition to my undying gratitude." Places still on Rachel's list include Tasmania, Southern Australia, Greenland, Sri Lanka, Antarctica, Ibiza, Crete, Sweden and Northern California, so she's still got lots of flying to do.

Frequent Flier miles aside, adding the work of an emerging artist to your collection is a meaningful and lasting form of support. We've still got those two 30"x40" prints of Rachel's available for purchase and we're also offering an edition of 3 prints at her above-mentioned ginormo exhibition size of 44"x54". Drop an email to collector at 20x200 dot com to learn more about those.

The Oldest Living Things in the World
Solo Show @ Michael Steinberg Fine Art
May 1-31st
526 West 26th Street, Suite 215

Palms, by Ian Baguskas

Let's start the week out right with congratulations to Ian Baguskas, the 20x200 edition maker and Hot Shot Ne Plus Ultra recently named to PDN's 30, whose current show at the Jen Bekman Gallery just received a lovely review by Peggy Roalf in the AI+AP's Design Arts Daily newsletter; Roalf says his Sweet Water is "one of the most beguiling exhibitions on view in New York."

If you're in the city, you really should go see it—if you think Ian's images look amazing on your screen, know that you'll find them absolutely mesmerizing in person. Sweet Water has been extended to May 3rd, so you've got time! We've still got prints of Ian's 20x200 edition Kamping Kabins available in all three sizes; I'm sure one of them would look great on your wall.

Untitled (from Sub Rosa), by Birthe Piontek

À nos amis Montréalais, we're pleased as punch to say 20x200 edition maker, Hot Shot! Ne Plus Ultra, and newly-minted PDN 30 Birthe Piontek will be one of ten photographers showing their visions of home in Bienvenue, a show opening at your lovely city's Maison de la culture Frontenac this coming Thursday, April 24th. We've still got prints of Birthe's moody, beautiful Untitled (from Sub Rosa) available, and think it would be a vision in your home!

Untitled (Geese), by Dana Miller

We're great fans of Dana Miller here at Jen Bekman World Domination HQ—one of her photographs was on the very first postcard for the Jen Bekman gallery's first exhibition, she had her third solo show there in 2004, and released the photo you see above as a 20x200 edition last October—so we're more than happy to say that she's just this very week released a book of her work through Blurb: analogue is a 72-page hardcover book of photographs "about the relationships between things", available now for $34.95. Congratulations, Dana!

If you like Dana as much as we do, we've still got her Untitled (Geese) available in all sizes, so pick one up while you still can; know that the intense green of the algae in the print is not done justice by our newfangled computer screens, it's striking and unbelievably beautiful in person.

Bags, by Beth Dow

Photolucida hasn't updated their website to reflect the results of this year's Critical Mass competition yet, but judge Lisa Snow recently posted a list of winners on her blog and everyone at Jen Bekman World Domination HQ is ecstatic to see Beth Dow's name as one of six on the book prize short list. Congratulations, Beth! She's represented by Jen Bekman Gallery, and she released a 20x200 edition last October. Her spare, melancholy Bags is now only available in medium and large.

Beth is not the only member of our extended family to do well in Critical Mass 2008—Hot Shots Colin Blakely, Daniel Traub, James Rajotte, Ian van Coller, and Sarah Small are all in the Top 50, so many congratulations to them as well! Colin's piece for 20x200, The Seeming Impenetrability of the Space Between, came out just last week and is already completely sold out save for the large edition.

Palms, by Ian Baguskas

Not even back in town a week from speaking on a SXSW Interactive panel in Austin, our jetsetting rock star leader Jen Bekman is in Texas again right now—in Houston this time, reviewing portfolios at the 2008 FotoFest Biennial.
While she's away looking at beautiful photographs and eating BBQ, let me update you on what's been going on with some of our favorite people:

Hey, Hot Shot! Ne Plus Ultras Ian Baguskas and Birthe Piontek, both represented by Jen Bekman, were recently named to PDN's 30 for 2008, and are featured in their March 2008 issue as two of this year’s top 30 emerging photographers. Congratulations Ian and Birthe! Ian's NYC solo show debut, Sweet Water, an exhibition of photographs documenting failed oases of the American West, opens at the gallery on Friday, March 21st and will be on show through April 26th. Read more about his show, or just come to the opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. this Friday!

Prints from Birthe's Untitled (from Sub Rosa) and Ian's Kamping Kabins 20x200 editions are still available, and we're very much pleased and excited to share the news that their fellow 2008 PDN 30s Shen Wei and Daniel Traub (a Spring 2007 Hot Shot) have agreed to do editions with us. Can't wait to see what they'll come up with.

Mickey Smith, a Winter 2007 Hot Shot and nominee for the 2008 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers, has both the cover and the One2Watch feature in the spring Fine Art Issue of PDNedu. Writer Jessica Gordon says, "Smith’s distinct style is attracting much attention in the fine-art world, and her breakthrough work is her ongoing Volume series, a collection of wall-absorbing, installation prints of library books in their stacks. Each image is graphically clean and includes a certain angle of a cheeky, ironic or symbolic book title, derived from the journals or periodicals it contains. For example, a series of worn, tan books have “Loco” on their spines. Two black books, one imperfectly ripped simply says “Life.” And one of her bestsellers among middle-aged men is a ruddy series of textured, brown books titled “The Metal Worker”; the buyers often say it reminds them of their fathers."

Word Study, Mickey's 20x200 edition from last November, is from the Volume series and is also completely sold out, except for one 30"x40" print that could be hanging on your wall soon—but only if no one beats you to it! Jen wrote about Mickey on her personal blog Personism last year as a perfect example of an artist who's got her eye on the prize; if you're starting out in the art or design worlds and want to know how to best approch galleries or prospective employers with your portfolio, you really need to read how Mickey does her thing and take notes.

Oh, and before I forget: hi! My name is Lia Bulaong, and starting today I'll be posting on the 20x200 blog, helping the incredibly busy Ms Jen keep you updated with news about our artists, editions, and all sorts of other things we think you might be interested in as art lovers and collectors. If my name seems a bit familiar, I've been bouncing around the internet for over a decade; I've been writing my personal blog at cheesedip.com since 2000, and have done stints at Gizmodo and Serious Eats in the past few years.

Some things you can expect to see here on the 20x200 blog soon: feature interviews with artists as well as collectors like yourselves (drop me a line at lia at 20x200.com if you'd like to share!), and the occasional inside look at what life is like at Jen Bekman World Domination HQ. Also the amazing Raul is currently working on enabling comments on the blog so we can have a public dialog in this space, hopefully they'll be good to go soon! has finally enabled comments, we're now good to go. Hoping to hear from you!