Martha Rich's floor design for Mural Arts' Space Pads project to encourage social distancing Martha Rich is our kind of rabble rouser, channeling her acerbic wit and aesthetic talent into happy-making art and do-gooder deeds. And she’s one productive sparkplug! Rich has kept the art coming from her quarantine hub. The projects she’s poured herself into are absolute eye candy, but they’re also reminders of art’s crucial role in public communication. For instance, a hot pink social distancing...

This week we finally made it to the New York Public Library to see Blue Prints. Pro tip: don’t sleep on this exhibition! It features the work of pioneering photographer and scientist Anna Atkins, tapping into over a decade of research and showing off the abiding beauty of Atkins’ cyanotype images. We could talk a blue streak (get it?) about this beautiful exhibition, but the thing we’re most keen to call out is that it’s closing...

Carolyn Castaño's piece, Heroine (After Policarpa Salavarrieta Jose Maria Espinosa), featured in her most recent solo show at Laband Art Gallery. Summer is Carolyn Castaño’s season. We’re saying that partly because the LA-based visual artist’s bright, passionate color palettes and energetic compositions feel warm-weather apropos, ebullient like a newly opened summer bloom. But we’re also saying that because we know Castaño was looking forward to the summer months and finally having more time to spend...

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...

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...

Culprit by Roger Ballen It’s not unusual to have a heightened awareness of death and creepiness this time of year. Perhaps it’s the decay of summer’s fecundity, the shorter days, the waning light, or the advancing chill. And of course there’s Halloween, just a few days away. Whatever the case, we’re pretty sure there’s no better time to reflect on the work of Roger Ballen. MORE after the jump »