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Collocation No. 14 (NATURE) Left Panel, Collocation No. 14 (NATURE) Right Panel, MORE BOOKS, and WORD STUDY by Mickey Smith  As we slowly replace printed books with digital versions, conceptual artist and photographer Mickey Smith has made it her mission to document bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. Some of the volumes she has captured have already been destroyed. “I am struck by the physical mass of knowledge and the tenuousness of printed work as it fades from public consciousness,” says Smith. 
Collocation No. 14 (NATURE) Left Panel, Collocation No. 14 (NATURE) Right Panel, MORE BOOKS, and WORD STUDY by Mickey Smith  As we slowly replace printed books with digital versions, conceptual artist and photographer Mickey Smith has made it her mission to document bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. Some of the volumes she has captured have already been destroyed. “I am struck by the physical mass of knowledge and the tenuousness of printed work as it fades from public consciousness,” says Smith. 
Collocation No. 14 (NATURE) Left Panel, Collocation No. 14 (NATURE) Right Panel, MORE BOOKS, and WORD STUDY by Mickey Smith  As we slowly replace printed books with digital versions, conceptual artist and photographer Mickey Smith has made it her mission to document bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. Some of the volumes she has captured have already been destroyed. “I am struck by the physical mass of knowledge and the tenuousness of printed work as it fades from public consciousness,” says Smith. 
Collocation No. 14 (NATURE) Left Panel, Collocation No. 14 (NATURE) Right Panel, MORE BOOKS, and WORD STUDY by Mickey Smith  As we slowly replace printed books with digital versions, conceptual artist and photographer Mickey Smith has made it her mission to document bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. Some of the volumes she has captured have already been destroyed. “I am struck by the physical mass of knowledge and the tenuousness of printed work as it fades from public consciousness,” says Smith. 

Collocation No. 14 (NATURE) Left Panel, Collocation No. 14 (NATURE) Right Panel, MORE BOOKS, and WORD STUDY by Mickey Smith

 As we slowly replace printed books with digital versions, conceptual artist and photographer Mickey Smith has made it her mission to document bound periodicals and professional journals in public libraries. Some of the volumes she has captured have already been destroyed. “I am struck by the physical mass of knowledge and the tenuousness of printed work as it fades from public consciousness,” says Smith. 

Slurp and Salty by Michelle Vaughan An oyster lover, artist Michelle Vaughan uses text to capture the action of eating the popular shellfish. And the delicate pink coloring? Vaughan chose this shade for its resemblance to the interiors of oyster shells. Even the Hamilton Gothic typeface, originally owned by the Baltimore Police Department, is meant to evoke Vaughan’s favorite food. “It is a clean, honest face for everyday use,” says the artist. “Oysters were once the everyman’s food, eaten by rich and poor alike—Gothic symbolizes this spirit.” Prints of these editions begin at $60. 
Slurp and Salty by Michelle Vaughan An oyster lover, artist Michelle Vaughan uses text to capture the action of eating the popular shellfish. And the delicate pink coloring? Vaughan chose this shade for its resemblance to the interiors of oyster shells. Even the Hamilton Gothic typeface, originally owned by the Baltimore Police Department, is meant to evoke Vaughan’s favorite food. “It is a clean, honest face for everyday use,” says the artist. “Oysters were once the everyman’s food, eaten by rich and poor alike—Gothic symbolizes this spirit.” Prints of these editions begin at $60. 

Slurp and Salty by Michelle Vaughan

An oyster lover, artist Michelle Vaughan uses text to capture the action of eating the popular shellfish. And the delicate pink coloring? Vaughan chose this shade for its resemblance to the interiors of oyster shells. Even the Hamilton Gothic typeface, originally owned by the Baltimore Police Department, is meant to evoke Vaughan’s favorite food. “It is a clean, honest face for everyday use,” says the artist. “Oysters were once the everyman’s food, eaten by rich and poor alike—Gothic symbolizes this spirit.”

Prints of these editions begin at $60. 

Apart Push Lawn Mower and Old Push Lawn Mower by Todd McLellan When this old lawn mower was thrown away, its pieces were still in working order. Part of artist Todd McLellan’s Disassembly series, these intriguing images examine—piece by piece—beautifully built machines that have been replaced by newer technology. Prints of these editions begin at $24. 
Apart Push Lawn Mower and Old Push Lawn Mower by Todd McLellan When this old lawn mower was thrown away, its pieces were still in working order. Part of artist Todd McLellan’s Disassembly series, these intriguing images examine—piece by piece—beautifully built machines that have been replaced by newer technology. Prints of these editions begin at $24. 

Apart Push Lawn Mower and Old Push Lawn Mower by Todd McLellan

When this old lawn mower was thrown away, its pieces were still in working order. Part of artist Todd McLellan’s Disassembly series, these intriguing images examine—piece by piece—beautifully built machines that have been replaced by newer technology.

Prints of these editions begin at $24. 

Filter Samples by Jessica Eaton Who would have imagined that humble filter samples could used to create such a vivacious, cheerful work of art? Artist Jessica Eaton’s attempts to construct fictional rainbows yielded Filter Samples. “Hundreds of swatches from Lee Filters sample packs were arranged on the window, by spectral wave transmission, to turn my living room into a ROYGBIV light box,” says Eaton. Prints of this edition begin at $60. 

Filter Samples by Jessica Eaton

Who would have imagined that humble filter samples could used to create such a vivacious, cheerful work of art? Artist Jessica Eaton’s attempts to construct fictional rainbows yielded Filter Samples. “Hundreds of swatches from Lee Filters sample packs were arranged on the window, by spectral wave transmission, to turn my living room into a ROYGBIV light box,” says Eaton.

Prints of this edition begin at $60. 

Squeeze by Gary Petersen “Using a limited vocabulary, I try to merge the synthetic with the natural while exploring the playful side of the ‘cosmic’ in abstract art,” says artist Gary Petersen. One of the many reasons we admire Petersen’s work is the human quality he brings to abstraction. Critic Stephen Maine put it best in his Art in America review of Petersen’s solo exhibition at Michael Steinberg Fine Arts: “Not slick, actually a little fumbling, these paintings do not attempt to hide a certain awkwardness and vulnerability behind their sunny bravado, which makes them resoundingly human.” Find Squeeze and other art by Gary Petersen. 

Squeeze by Gary Petersen

“Using a limited vocabulary, I try to merge the synthetic with the natural while exploring the playful side of the ‘cosmic’ in abstract art,” says artist Gary Petersen.

One of the many reasons we admire Petersen’s work is the human quality he brings to abstraction. Critic Stephen Maine put it best in his Art in America review of Petersen’s solo exhibition at Michael Steinberg Fine Arts:

“Not slick, actually a little fumbling, these paintings do not attempt to hide a certain awkwardness and vulnerability behind their sunny bravado, which makes them resoundingly human.”

Find Squeeze and other art by Gary Petersen. 

Praia Piquinia 28/08/11 15h24 by Christian Chaize Water. Blue, green, clean, shallow, rippled, warmed by the sun. The ocean fills Christian Chaize’s Praia Piquinia 28/08/11 15h24, the latest edition in the French artist’s Praia Piquinia series. The sea’s infinite shades of turquoise draw hypnotized sunbathers, who plant their umbrellas while draped in a ragged semicircle as if in worship around the shore. This print will sell out quickly, so you’ll want to collect it now. Read more.

Praia Piquinia 28/08/11 15h24 by Christian Chaize

Water. Blue, green, clean, shallow, rippled, warmed by the sun. The ocean fills Christian Chaize’s Praia Piquinia 28/08/11 15h24, the latest edition in the French artist’s Praia Piquinia series. The sea’s infinite shades of turquoise draw hypnotized sunbathers, who plant their umbrellas while draped in a ragged semicircle as if in worship around the shore. This print will sell out quickly, so you’ll want to collect it now. Read more.

TO GIVE IS TO GET Do you hail from the “One for you, one for me!” school of holiday shopping (trust us, you’re not alone…)? Have we got a deal for you: From now through 12/6, send one of our gorgeous framed 11”x14” prints to a friend or family member (or, shhhhh, even to yourself), and we’ll send you a $20 gift certificate for one of our 8”x10” prints! Offer ends 12/6 at 11:59 p.m. ET; use code GET8X10 at checkout. Above:  Ideal Bookshelf 364: NYC by Jane Mount
TO GIVE IS TO GET

Do you hail from the “One for you, one for me!” school of holiday shopping (trust us, you’re not alone…)? Have we got a deal for you:

From now through 12/6, send one of our gorgeous framed 11”x14” prints to a friend or family member (or, shhhhh, even to yourself), and we’ll send you a $20 gift certificate for one of our 8”x10” prints! Offer ends 12/6 at 11:59 p.m. ET; use code GET8X10 at checkout.

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New on 20x200: Gain by Yuji Yamada 8”x10” ($20) | 11”x14” ($50) | 16”x20” ($200) | 24”x30” ($1000) In the newsletter, Jen writes: Manic Monday greetings, collectors! If the holiday rush (or its subsequent stressors) has you feeling like you’re in a never-ending triathlon, today’s new prints—Despair, Gain, Le Tour and Rhythm, by Yuji Yamada—are here to help get you across the finish line and over the hurdle of gift-shopping for the sportiest recipients on your list. We think the art-lover in you and the athletes in your life will all agree with Yuji: sport is an art. TO GIVE IS TO GET Do you hail from the “One for you, one for me!” school of holiday shopping (trust us, you’re not alone…)? Have we got a deal for you: From now through 12/6, send one of our gorgeous framed 11”x14” prints to a friend or family member (or, shhhhh, even to yourself), and we’ll send you a $20 gift certificate for one of our 8”x10” prints! Offer ends 12/6 at 11:59 p.m. ET; use code GET8X10 at checkout.

New on 20x200: Gain by Yuji Yamada

8”x10” ($20) | 11”x14” ($50) | 16”x20” ($200) | 24”x30” ($1000)
In the newsletter, Jen writes:

Manic Monday greetings, collectors! If the holiday rush (or its subsequent stressors) has you feeling like you’re in a never-ending triathlon, today’s new prints—Despair, Gain, Le Tour and Rhythm, by Yuji Yamada—are here to help get you across the finish line and over the hurdle of gift-shopping for the sportiest recipients on your list. We think the art-lover in you and the athletes in your life will all agree with Yuji: sport is an art.

TO GIVE IS TO GET

Do you hail from the “One for you, one for me!” school of holiday shopping (trust us, you’re not alone…)? Have we got a deal for you:

From now through 12/6, send one of our gorgeous framed 11”x14” prints to a friend or family member (or, shhhhh, even to yourself), and we’ll send you a $20 gift certificate for one of our 8”x10” prints! Offer ends 12/6 at 11:59 p.m. ET; use code GET8X10 at checkout.