Last week we wrote about our upcoming 20×200 print giveaway at Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturday, and we wanted to send you a quick reminder to cancel all your other plans, because it’s happening this Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.! All 200 8”x10” prints from Valerie Hegarty’s gorgeous forthcoming edition, First Harvest in the Wilderness with Pileated Woodpecker are packed, our brand new 20×200 banner has arrived, and we’re uhhh…still brainstorming on our apparel. We hope you’ll join us for what is sure to be an awesome evening full of talks, music, film, dancing and art.

Ms. Jen Bekman will be speaking, exclusively to 1stfans, about 20×200 and JBP’s approach to supporting artists. So, after you’ve started or renewed your 1stfans membership (and picked up Valerie’s print!), join us for a talk!

We’ll be giving away 10”x8” prints by artist Valerie Hegarty to new and renewing 1stfans members and Ms. Jen Bekman herself will be speaking to an intimate group of 1stfans at a meetup. Meetups are an opportunity for 1stfans to interact exclusively with the Museum’s staff, its collections, artists, and other members every month at Target First Saturdays.

Bierstadt with Holes, 2007 by Valerie Hegarty

20×200 has been collaborating with 1stfans founders, Shelley Bernstein and Will Cary, and artist Valerie Hegarty over the last few months to produce this unique benefit edition. For the first time ever, collectors will be able to pick up a print in person and become a 1stfans member all for the ridiculously affordable cost of $20! 1stfans is the Brooklyn Museums’s socially networked membership. Valerie Hegarty and 20×200 have donated the prints for this event.

If you can’t make it to the event, you’ll have another chance to pick up one of Valerie’s prints plus the 1stfans membership. We’ll release the prints in two larger sizes, 14”x11” and 20”x16,” the following week on 20×200. Every print from Valerie’s edition will include a one-year membership to 1stfans and the proceeds from the print will benefit the Brooklyn Museum as well. The prints are gorgeous and we think they’ll go fast, make sure you’re signed up for Jen’s newsletter to get first dibs on one!

Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Jen’s talk | 8:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

Laundromat, 1997 by Colleen Plumb

Jen Bekman Gallery artists Ian Baguskas, Colleen Plumb and Sarah McKenzie have generously donated pieces to the Sixth Annual BAMart Silent Auction at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

From the website:

With opening bids starting around $100, there is something for everyone! Works can be viewed and bid upon right here once the live exhibition and bidding both begin on March 18th and you can visit this site to place and track your bids, and keep on top of exciting auction news from BAM. Best of all, every dollar earned will go to support BAM’s dynamic and innovative programs. So click, bid, support!

BAM brings a lot of vitality to the arts in New York, and they’re an organization that we’ve supported through collaborating with them on a 20×200 benefit edition. Proceeds from the sale of Greg Lindquist’s edition Embers of the Maritime are donated to BAM.

We’re also thrilled because the three artists involved truly represent the breadth of Jen Bekman Projects. All three have had exhibitions at the gallery, all three have released limited-edition prints through 20×200, and the two photographers came to our attention by entering Hey, Hot Shot! As they develop new bodies of work and their accomplishments accrue, we’re reminded about how happy we are to work with such talented and generous artists.

Don’t miss this opportunity to bid on an all-star roster of artists in support of a great organization. More details on lots and bidding are available at the BAMart Auction website.

Exterior 1 (Plastic Trees), 2009 by Sarah McKenzie

Traces, Ocotillo Wells, California, 2008 by Ian Baguskas

The clock is ticking, but you’ve still got two and a half hours to get your hands on one of these amazing editions at 20×200 by painter Clare Grill, whose solo exhibition, What You’re Told is currently hanging in the gallery. We’ve been sitting amidst Clare’s work for the last two weeks, and the colors, textures and narratives that comprise this work are truly captivating. These prints do an incredible job of translating the motion and richness of her pieces in a way we can make available to every single one of you.

To pick up one of Clare’s prints for 20% off, click on any of the works below, then enter the code RIDONK at Google checkout. This offer ends at 2 p.m. (EST) today, so do not delay!

Assignment by Clare Grill

Cake by Clare Grill

The Overachievers* by Clare Grill

*The original painting, The Overachievers, hanging in the exhibition, has been sold. But, that makes the 30”x40” edition of this print, only $2,000 $1,600, an even more incredible steal.

Happy Sunday! We have an exciting announcement: we’re extending the 20% more ridiculous event until tomorrow, Monday at 2:00 p.m. EST! You still have plenty of time to browse and collect for 20% less — stock up today during your Sunday leisure, or squeeze in a mad dash during lunch at the office tomorrow.

** Enter RIDONK at checkout for 20% off your prints till 2:00 p.m. EST Monday, February 1st! **

The sale extends to purchases $40 and greater; now’s the time to jump for the larger print you’ve been eying. The savings really start to stack up and many of these editions are on the edge of the forever-disappeared from 20×200: They’re going, going and likely to be gone when this event ends.

30”x40” prints with only 1 of 2 remaining for $2,000 $1,600:

Untitled (Hanoi no.2) by Kelly Shimoda

The Faceted Couroucou by Carrie Marill

Katarina by Karolina Karlic

Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Carts #1 by Kate Bingaman-Burt

Unleaded, Unleaded, Premium Unleaded by Eric Graham

Towards Christiana (Copenhagen) by Rachel Sussman

Site by Sarah McKenzie

Fortune (will be successful in…) by Kirby Pilcher

ny.07.#32 by Jennifer Sanchez

Auditorium by James Rajotte

White and Grey Canary #1 by Luke Stephenson

House Plant 2 by Carrie Marill

House Plant 3 by Carrie Marill

132 Birds at The American Museum of Natural History by Jason Polan

The Weight of the Bridge by Amy Park

Untitled (elephant) by Don Hamerman

In One Ear, Out the Other by Jessica Snow

Burning Down the Second House by Ann Toebbe

Waiting for Hand Grenade Practice, Southern Israel by Rachel Papo

16”x20” prints with 6 (or fewer!) of 20 remaining for $200 $160:

Running Track by James Deavin

Embedded by Aili Schmeltz

Mossball by Don Hamerman

Idaho Springs, Colorado by Justin James Reed

Untitled #46 from “Stories” by Jessica Bruah

Bonaparte 9 by Superdeluxe (Adrienne Wong and Karin Spraggs)

Hank Williams’ Bed, Georgiana, Alabama by Scott Eiden

Berry by by Kevin Cyr

Houndstooth Pattern in Parking Lot, at Disney World, FL by Alex MacLean

Color Study #4 Dustin Amery Hostetler (UPSO)

Monk by Mark Ulriksen

Stricken by Don Hamerman

Untitled (You’re Impossible) by Mike Monteiro

Space and Illusion by Carrie Marill

The Office by Rebecca Loyche

Palm Aire by Tema Stauffer

The 20×200 20% More Ridiculous Sale has arrived. Today through noon on Sunday, we’re offering 20% off everything on 20×200 when you make a purchase of $40 or more. Enter code RIDONK in Google checkout to get your discount. The site-wide sale happens but twice a year; there’s no better time to get your art on than right now!

Browse using our Valentine’s day gift guide, our artist-designed guides, our staff picks, VIP picks or by price, color or artist. Or, see prints with just a few left before they’re going going gone!

What does 20% More Ridiculous mean?
$50 prints are now $40
$200 prints are now $160
$500 prints are now $400
$2,000 prints are now $1,600
$5,000 prints are now $4,000

A few small details:
– You’ll need to spend a minimum of $40 to qualify for the discount. (We’re ridiculous and generous, but not entirely foolish!)
– No double-dipping! RIDONK stands alone, and cannot be combined with any other offers or promotions.
– Gift certificate purchases are not eligible for the discount.
– Being the incredible opportunity that they are to begin with, the very few and rather gorgeous prints by Mike & Doug Starn are not eligible for discounts.

We also just unveiled our Valentine’s Day Gift Guide that will help you find the perfect print for your bookish babe, sporty suitor, and pretty much every or any sweetheart that could possibly be in your life! We also just rolled out 20×200 edition-maker Lisa Congdon’s contribution to our series of artist-designed gift guides.

Powerhouse Gym, 2008, by Brian Ulrich

Photographer, 20×200 edition-maker and 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Brian Ulrich will be giving a talk and signing books from 5:30 – 7 p.m. tonight at Hous Projects Gallery, and yes, you are invited!

Much of this work is part of the larger project Copia for which Ulrich is currently working on a Guggenheim Fellowship and planning to continue across the country making pictures for a compilation of photographs to culminate in a book that examines 100 years of consumer culture in the US.

Besides talking about his current body of work, Brian, also will talk about the works in the show Versus and the perspective of the new generation of photographers.

The event coincides with Brian’s inclusion in the Versus show at Hous Projects, on view through March 8th.

In the months since the summer, when Brian’s photograph [above] appeared in the Summer Reading exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery, Brian has continued to photograph, exhibit and participate in various projects at a rapid pace. So rapid, in fact, that he has another opening tonight.

Instruments of Empire, a two-person exhibition also featuring works by Amy Stein, is also on view at Caption Gallery in Brooklyn. Together, their work presents “powerful, dystopic visions of global capitalism’s flipside.” If you’re in town, these are two shows you will not want to miss.

Instruments of Empire: Brian Ulrich and Amy Stein
On View: January 28 – March 25, 2010
Caption Gallery
55 Washington Street, No. 802
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Brian Ulrich Signing + Lecture
Tonight: January 29, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Hous Projects
31 Howard St., 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013

Rothko Sunset, 2007 by Valerie Hegarty

On Saturday, February 6th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., team 20×200 will be at the Brooklyn Museum for a Target First Saturday event with 1stfans — won’t you join us? We’ll be giving away 10”x8” prints by artist Valerie Hegarty to new and renewing 1stfans members and Ms. Jen Bekman herself will be speaking to an intimate group of 1stfans at a meetup. Meetups are an opportunity for 1stfans to interact exclusively with the Museum’s staff, its collections, artists, and other members every month at Target First Saturdays.

20×200 has been collaborating with 1stfans founders, Shelley Bernstein and Will Cary, and artist Valerie Hegarty over the last few months to produce this unique benefit edition. For the first time ever, collectors will be able to pick up a print in person and become a 1stfans member all for the ridiculously affordable cost of $20! 1stfans is the Brooklyn Museums’s socially networked membership. Valerie Hegarty and 20×200 have donated the prints for this event.

If you can’t make it to the event, you’ll have another chance to pick up one of Valerie’s prints plus the 1stfans membership. We’ll release the prints in two larger sizes, 11”x14” and 16”x20,” the following week on 20×200. Every print from Valerie’s edition will include a one-year membership to 1stfans and the proceeds from the print will benefit the Brooklyn Museum as well. The prints are gorgeous and we think they’ll go fast, make sure you’re signed up for Jen’s newsletter to get first dibs on one!

Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Jen’s talk will be from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, BK, NY

Clare’s show is on view through February 27th, so if you’re in New York City, we hope you’ll stop by the gallery to see What You’re Told in person. We love spending the day sitting amongst these gorgeous works and invite you to enjoy them with us! For those of you who won’t be able to make it in, take a look at the installation views taken by Elizabeth Leitzell we just posted on Flickr.

Photographs ©Elizabeth Leitzell, 2010

We just posted some photos from the packed opening of What You’re Told by Clare Grill (smiling in the bottom photo!) on our Flickr. Thanks again to everyone who packed in to see the show, we hope you had a great time!

Check out the full set of images and see if you can spot yourself and as a reminder, What You’re Told remains on view through Saturday, February 27th, 2010.

Untitled work image by Holly Lynton

Since last summer, I have been having a back and forth with JBG artist Holly Lynton as she works on developing her newest body of work. One of the great aspects of my job is getting to be a part of the process: watching projects develop and getting sneak peaks into all of the images that photographers go though before choosing what will make the final cut.

Holly’s new images, photographs of the relationships between man and animal, have such a quiet intensity. It is as if she captures these moments of connection that transcend the implied chaos and noise that is surrounding the subjects. Think of a beautiful and peaceful picture of a man whose face is covered in bees. In the above work, it is this almost “divine” moment between the girl and these turkeys amidst squawking I can only imagine and the commotion of flying feathers – an often used cinematic gesture for any type of chaos or crash in a rural scene. She becomes, as Holly and I have been referring to her in our back and forth, “The Turkey Madonna.”

Holly normally likes to keep her projects under wraps until completion but thankfully I could convince her to let me show one image from her current work in development. Here is what Holly had to say via email about her recent work:

I left New York for Massachusetts farm country in part to live the locavore life, defined mainly as eating locally, sustainably, and organically. What I hadn’t anticipated is how it is more often than not an extension of people’s spiritual lives. In my photography, I was initially drawn to photographing individuals who confront dangers in nature, allowing themselves to be vulnerable. Examples of these are bee keepers who wear no protective clothing and catfish noodlers who fish for seventy pound catfish with their bare hands. While photographing them, I watched them enter a transformative and meditate state that I see also exists in certain farm activities. I observed a reverence for nature rather than the absence of fear. Much of the current literature and film presents the negative sides of industrial farming without enough celebration of the positive aspects of small scale, sustainable, local, organic farms. I am interested in photographing people who work with animals on these farms and in the wild to expose the spiritual conviction they have for this way of life, as a gesture to my commitment and belief in its importance as well.

Danziger Projects (James Desk) from Workspaces by Joseph O. Holmes

JBG artist and 20×200 edition-maker Joseph O. Holmes has been included in the upcoming show The Year in Pictures at Danziger Projects, opening this Thursday. The show, which has been put on annually since 2007, is curated from work that has been featured in the last year on the popular Year in Pictures blog of gallery owner James Danziger.

Danziger writes,

The 15 contemporary photographers featured in the show represent 9 different countries – Saudi Arabia, Korea, Denmark, Britain, Mexico, Japan, France, Canada, and the U.S.. Over half have work I had originally only seen via the internet, evidencing the well-known power of the web as a connector, and what is sometimes taken for granted – the web’s unrivalled capacity as a transmitter of photographic images.

Earlier this year, Joe and Danziger crossed paths when Joe was working on his Workspace series, candidly documenting the unique spaces in which people do their work.

About the series, Joe writes,

Because I document a space exactly as I find it, never arranged for the camera, the Workspace project is necessarily a spontaneous process. I can’t, for example, call ahead and explain what I’m after without inviting the destruction of what I hope to capture. Lately I’ve been finding workspaces by walking in off the street with camera and tripod and simply asking (though “simply asking” doesn’t quite convey the complex dance of explanation, skepticism, persuasion, and fascination that goes back and forth). What I end up capturing, then, turns out to be the work that was interrupted to answer the door.

Danziger responded, “As I like both my workspace and Joe’s work, I was happy to co-operate and now his picture (above) is about to be all that remains as a visual record of where I’ve sat for the last five years, often writing this blog!”

Congratulations to Joe and to Danziger Projects on the show, which we cannot wait to see!

You can view the full Workspace series on Joe’s website and grab limited-edition prints on 20×200. Keep your eyes peeled because we’ll be opening a solo-show of Joe’s work later this year at Jen Bekman Gallery.

The Year in Pictures
Danziger Projects
Opening reception: January 21, 6-8 p.m.
534 West 24th Street
New York, New York 10011 USA

Featuring: Jowhara AlSaud, Chan-Hyo Bae, Thomas Bangsted, Mandy Corrado, Stephen Gill, Joseph Holmes, Alejandra Laviada, Greg Miller, David Schoerner, Patrick Smith, Tommy Ton, Scout Tufankjian, Oliver Warden, Katherine Wolkoff and Tsukasa Yokozawa.

West Nineteenth Street (Yellow Dress) by Joseph O. Holmes

The Overachievers by Clare Grill

We are anxiously counting down the days to Clare Grill’s opening exhibition here at the JBG (details below), so were thrilled to release a new edition by Clare on 20×200 yesterday to give our collectors a taste of what’s to come. While the textures and richness of The Overachievers can only be fully realized in the original, which will be one of the six paintings in What You’re Told, the print is utterly gorgeous and we suggest you pick one up!

Jen wrote in yesterday’s newsletter:

Looking at her works, I was transported back to those mysterious years of childhood and recalled the vague terror that arises when you’re a kid and you’ve done something wrong. Without undermining the foreboding feeling of getting caught at being bad, the paintings are also comfortingly familiar — when you’re young, that terror is (hopefully) the only terror you know. There’s something cozy and sentimental about remembering that, especially when comparing it to the much more complex, unbounded realities of adulthood. These realities lie in the murky and misty areas in Clare’s works and bring forth the lessons learned that weren’t always as black and white as they were presented.

The Overachievers is available on 20×200 in four sizes for $20, $50, $200 and $2000, and—lucky you—the 35”x28” original is also available, which you can see for yourself at the opening on Friday night.

What You’re Told
Six paintings on canvas and eleven works on paper by Clare Grill
Opening Reception: Friday, January 15th, 2010 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
On View: January 16th – February 27th, 2010
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
New York, NY

See you there!

You may have heard, but we’re looking for smart, motivated, web-savvy, art-loving interns to join the JBP team immediately. We have openings both here at the gallery and at JBP HQ which is just up the road. Does this sound like you or someone you know? Read more about internships at JBP here and send resumes and cover letters to internship AT 20×200 DOT com.

Where will we be on February 28, 2010? At the annual powerHouse Books photography portfolio review!

The Sixth Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review event [is] a platform for all levels of aspiring and professional photographers to present their body of work to be reviewed and critiqued by leading experts in the fields of photography, art, media, and advertising and to receive guidance and mentoring for future artistic and commercial career development.

This year the panel of experts includes our own Jeffrey Teuton, Associate Director of Jen Bekman Gallery, and Sara Distin, Associate Director of Jen Bekman Projects. Each photographer who signs up will be assigned five one-on-one reviews of his or her portfolio. Reviews such as these are an extremely valuable way to develop your artistic practice, as well as get on the radar of experts like ours. We’ll make sure to keep reminding you about this awesome opportunity as it approaches, but for the early birds who do their research: the full list of reviewers, and much more information, is available on the powerHouse website.

The registration form (pdf) is available online, and we recommend that you sign up as early as possible because there is a 100 person cap on the event.

Coaster, from the series Ruins, by Beth Dow

Our very own Beth Dow, photographer of surreal ruinous landscapes, was recently interviewed by Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of At Length. Beth talks about the origins of her Ruins series (which opened at Jen Bekman Gallery last year), the process behind her work and where she’s going next.

Here an excerpt from Beth on how Ruins began:

I was always fascinated by the work of Francis Frith and other expedition photographers, but Ruins began quite spontaneously. I was on a road trip working on a collaboration with my husband (the photographer and printmaker Keith Taylor) and we planned to reward our patient, long-suffering kids with some time at a water park at the Wisconsin Dells. It had just stopped raining one morning as we drove down the road, and the warm light was glowing on an odd structure that looked instantly like a Francis Frith photograph. It took my breath away, and I knew I had to postpone the original collaborative project. This first image became Coaster.

To read the rest of the interview and see images of Beth’s work, head over to At Length.

Walter by Joseph Holmes

Jen Bekman Gallery’s own Joseph O. Holmes has been awarded first place in an international juried portrait exhibition opening this January in Minneapolis. Joe’s portrait, Walter (above), was selected from a pool of over 200 entries by David Little. Little is currently the curator of photographs at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts but no stranger to the New York art world, having held positions at both The Whitney and the MoMA.

The co-op studio at Mpls Photo Center

The exhibition, which includes 84 portraits, will open January 8th, 2010 at the gorgeous Mpls Photo Center, a “member-based, public-friendly center for all things photography that includes classrooms, darkrooms, a digital lab, and exhibition space.”

Congratulations to Mr. Holmes on this exciting start to 2010! We can’t wait to show Joe’s work here in New York when his solo show opens later this year at Jen Bekman Gallery.

In the meantime, head over to 20×200 to collect some beautiful prints by Joe, and don’t forget to subscribe to Joe’s NYC to get your daily dose of Holmes.

Portraits at Mpls Photo Center
January 2, 2010 – January 31, 2010
Reception: January 8, 2010, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Mpls Photo Center
2400 North Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55411

Left to right: Mark Burnette, Jessica M. Kaufman, Mickey Kerr, Jeff Otto O’Brien

Tema Stauffer, who had her NYC solo-show debut at JBG back in October of 2004, was recently invited to curate the front page of contemporary art site culturehall for its Winter Issue. Her selections, shown as thumbnails above, perfectly reflect what Tema refers to as “the psychology of the season.” This virtual show will run through December 29th so make sure to check it out at culturehall.

Tema also has two editions of her own for sale on 20×200 but from the looks of it, they won’t be available for much longer!

One of the most fun pieces in Mixtape (which runs through January 9th!) is the collection of five old-skool cassette tapes drawn by Kate Bingaman-Burt. ”Mixtapes are almost dead,” she writes, “Goodwills and Salvation Army stores don’t want them, small thrift stores sometimes have them, but not often. People either nostalgically cling to their handmade tapes or they dump them in the trash.”

To immortalize this dying art, Kate put out a call for mixtapes:

I need your help. I want to draw your mixtapes. I want your sad songs, your love jams, your sing-at-the-top-of-your-lungs car tunes, your break-up tape, your make-up tape and your BFF-4evah cassette.

I am only drawing the tape. If you want to participate, please snap a picture of the best side of your favorite tape and email it to kate@obsessiveconsumption.com

Since then, she has been drawing away! Yesterday Kate put an awesome handmade zine of her mixtapes up for sale in her Etsy shop. The 14-page zine was produced in an edition of 30 and can be yours for a mere $6 + shipping. For a sneak peek, check out the full set of drawings on Kate’s Flickr.

This is a worthy addition to any shelf, but if you still can’t get enough, Kate’s got four fabulous editions at 20×200, and to inquire about her original drawings from Mixtape contact: sales [at] jenbekman [dot] com!

Velodrome, from The Games We Play by James Deavin

If you happened to miss the excitement, four new 20×200 editions by Jen Bekman Gallery’s own James Deavin were released yesterday! The editions all come from James’s series The Games We Play, which depicts “sporting environments portrayed as simply as possible.” Devoid of humans, these constructed landscapes reveal the strange and beautiful nature of modern leisure and competition.

The series also shows the fascinating scope of James’ work, which spans both the digital and physical worlds. Photographs from the New World, an exhibition composed entirely of screenshots from the computer game Second Life, had its acclaimed debut at Jen Bekman Gallery back in 2005.

Untitled, from Photographs from the New World by James Deavin

James writes:

Second Life is a place where people can live out their dreams. Some people’s dreams are to have a bigger version of what they already have. Others’ fondest wish is to be a talking elephant from Mars. Second Life is not a ‘game’ – there is no “next level,” no “level boss,” there is no winning or losing. Rather, characters enter into complex relationships, build things, earn and spend money. In fact, the world turns over ten million dollars a month. This money is spent in the market place and certain consumer products have become ubiquitous: grand pianos, waterfalls, boats, Japanese gardens. If money were no object, is this how real life would look?

Together, the two series raise an interesting contrast and comparison between what we imagine and what we make real. Taken out of their inhabited context, the environments from The Games We Play seem every bit as absurd and decadent as their virtual counterparts.

All five of James’s 20×200 editions have prints available for purchase.

To inquire about limited edition 30”x40” prints of the aforementioned series as well as other work by James Deavin, send an email to sales AT jenbekman DOT com.

Marine Wedding by Nina Berman

Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to announce that represented artist and 2007 Hot Shot Nina Berman and 2005 Hot Shot Curtis Mann have been selected as 2010 Whitney Biennial artists.

Berman’s first solo show with Jen Bekman Gallery in 2007, Purple Hearts, the ground-breaking work that placed Berman in the Biennial, received international attention and acclaim. In a review for The New York Times, critic Holland Cotter proclaimed, “the images add up to a complex and desolating anti-war statement.” Purple Hearts received a tremendous response both locally and internationally. The gallery presented Berman’s second exhibition, Homeland, in October 2008.

Both Berman and Mann have released editions on Jen Bekman Projects’ online print program, 20×200.

The 2010 Whitney Biennial is being curated by Francesco Bonami, in collaboration with the Whitney’s Gary Carrion-Murayari, who will be associate curator. This will be the 75th in the series of Whitney Annual and Biennial exhibitions, inaugurated in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. The show—which is scaled back to exhibit just 55 artists at only one location in 2010—opens to the public on February 25th and runs through May 30th.

Tree Tops, from the series Somewhere in Israel by Curtis Mann

G.I. Goat by Nina Berman