A preview of Lisa Congdon's work in her upcoming solo show at Stephanie Chefas Gallery Staying hopeful ain’t easy these days, but if there’s one person who’s work always makes us feel fired up and optimistic, it’s fine artist, illustrator, educator, author, and all-around awesome person Lisa Congdon. We checked in with Congdon to get the 411 on all that she’s been up to, and the list is characteristically long, cool, and fomo-inducing. Pull up that...

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...

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...

Anderson's new book is out! And you're gonna wanna go in... We couldn’t begin to imagine what it’d be like to take a behind-the-scenes tour of Kelli Anderson’s brain, but we can say unequivocally that it’d be full of surprises. A multi-talented, deep-thinking maker of creative magic, Anderson is idiosyncratic as all get-out—a true agitator in the purest, most honest, affirmative way. The Brooklyn-based artist and designer (and longtime 20x200 collaborator!) is beyond fluent in...

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...

We don’t play favorites when it comes to our artists, but Joseph O. Holmes definitely has a special place in our hearts. Maybe it’s because he’s been a longtime 20x200 collaborator, or because his photographs of NYC never fail to remind us why we’re so smitten with our home city, OR because he’s one of the most easy-going, positively zen people we’ve ever had the pleasure to get to know IRL. All we can tell...