20x200 News
Autumn’s making her big comeback tomorrow. A few good fall things to look forward to: the AC can finally be retired. Your sweaters will be so relieved to be back in rotation. Hot toddys at 2pm will be totally acceptable again. Just be sure you don’t spend all your free time hunting for peak foliage—there’s loads of awesome art happenings to scope out this season! Start with our selects below, some rad goings-on ℅ 20x200...
Qiana Mestrich's work recently appeared in MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. If you’re in the market for some motivation, Qiana Mestrich might inspire your inner mover and shaker. Wowing collectors with her debut 20x200 edition is just a blip of what she’s been up to. For a taste: this past November, Mestrich’s art was featured in the debut issue of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, a captivating collection of work by one...
One of the paintings in Jennifer Sanchez's latest series, Pattern Fuck. Put your shades on, collectors: we’re shinin’ our Artist Spotlight on loooongtime 20x200 artist, color connoisseur, and plucky, foulmouthed pattern master Jennifer Sanchez. A proud Lower East Sider and New York neighbor of ours, Sanchez’s art stands out. Geometry is her main muse. She draws inspiration from her surroundings, from Native American textiles, from Bauhaus queen Gunta Stölzl, and more. Of course, there’s also...
20x200 artists are staying busy this spring, and the result is some seriously cool art goings-on. Lucky for you, we’ve rounded up a few highlights to make your spring scheduling a cinch. *Spring* into action and attack the best art offerings out there this season! – Team 20x200 Spy Kindah Khalidy hard at work on her next show, opening at Chandran Gallery in SF this April. Untitled (a) by Kindah Khalidy MORE after the...
Julia Rothman's latest animated illustration for The New York Times is just too doggone cute! If the title “working artist” calls to mind the image of a smock-swathed aesthete arched over an easel in the afternoon light, serenely surveying their subject … spot on! That’s pretty much it. J/k: full time artist-ing is a lot of elbow grease and go-getterdom, and our 20x200 artist fam cumulatively possesses enough hustle to give Van McCoy a run...
Punxsutawney Phil has made his annual prediction—seems winter is sticking around. But don’t let a glorified groundhog get you down. Winter is a great time for our most adored indoor activity: checking out ART! So you don’t dwell on the idea of six more weeks of freezing season, we’ve handpicked some 20x200 artist happenings that’ll turn the heat right up (at least, euphemistically-speaking... highly recommending you still layer like a lunatic). Catch our highlights below....
Helena Wurzel's studio: gouache tubes, paper, and jars of YES! glue for her gouache + paper creations When we’re thirsting for a piece to pump some electricity into our art collection, we’re wont to turn to Helena Wurzel, whose cool factor, bright color palette, and topsy-turvey take on perspective always keep us on our toes. Wurzel’s been part of the 20x200 artist roster since wayyyy back in the day—2011, to be specific (!!!). Through the...
Edel Rodriguez at the De Hache conference in Queretaros, Mexico with Resist. showing on the screen Edel Rodriguez is a busy man. Since the release of his 20x200 edition a few months back, the Cuban-American artist has continued to produce some of the most staggeringly powerful imagery out there, both topical and timeless in its appeal to our humanity. Much of his current work is the modern embodiment of art as activism. His pointed, poignant, no-nonsense...