Stairway by Tamara Thomsen

Tamara Thomsen makes the bones of old homes beautiful. In her large-scale watercolor paintings, spare and elegant architecture is rendered ageless and glamorous in jeweled washes of lime, lemon, magenta and turquoise. Her most recent series, Chambers memorializes Benedict Arnold’s former home, Philadelphia’s neoclassical landmark, Mount Pleasant Mansion. Read More »

Orb 5 (Long Island, New York) by Carlo Van de Roer

Photographer Carlo Van de Roer is willing to believe — or at least pretend that he might believe — in the unbelievable. His two most recent projects, Orbs and Portrait Machine Project, focus on supernatural phenomena: floating orbs and auras. Read More »

Twice a month, Sara Distin from Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. contributes a post to Flavorpill about an artist or photographer who young collectors need to know. Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. includes Jen Bekman Gallery, 20×200 and Hey, Hot Shot!

Photographer Mike Sinclair works from the inside, out. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, his images literally begin in the middle of country. They contain the sort of deeply-centered observations that seep into the core of what it is to be an American, and eventually find their way out, tickling the skin with warm familiarity. Read More »

Twice a month, Sara Distin from Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. contributes a post to Flavorwire about an artist or photographer. Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. includes Jen Bekman Gallery, 20×200 and Hey, Hot Shot!

Putting together a few of my favorite things seemed to be the call of the day today as we’re running a ridiculous sale at 20×200, and I’ve spent hours daydreaming about my own virtual cart loaded to the gills with great art that I’ve long adored. Read More »

Twice a month, Sara Distin from Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. contributes a post to Flavorwire about an artist or photographer. Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. includes Jen Bekman Gallery, 20×200 and Hey, Hot Shot!

In a 2007 interview, artist Jorge Colombo affirmatively answered the question: “Do you feel like the minimal tool helps erase the distinction between living and working?” He followed up by saying, “Art-making tools are an unavoidable burden, although some, like a pencil or a drum, come across as quite organic. The more discreet they are, the less mediating they feel: instead of something ‘special,’ they become more like fingers, or the voice… almost as immaterial as words, or memory itself.” Read More »

Image credit: Circus by Colleen Plumb

Twice a month, Sara Distin from Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. contributes a post to Flavorwire about an artist or photographer. Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. includes Jen Bekman Gallery, 20×200 and Hey, Hot Shot!. Read More »

Image credit: Vogue JUL07:pg145 (Ripeness is All) by Lauren DiCioccio

Twice a month, Sara Distin from Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. contributes a post to Flavorwire about an artist or photographer. Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. includes Jen Bekman Gallery, 20×200 and Hey, Hot Shot! (The current competition is open through 8 p.m. EST on May 1.)

West Coast artist Lauren Dicioccio describes her color codification dot drawings as a system like Braille. But unlike those silent white dots, Dicioccio’s works are luminous. Working with a freshly mixed palette, she assigns a color to each letter of the alphabet. Read More »

Image credit: Trojan Horse by Beth Dow

Twice a month, Sara Distin from Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. contributes a post about an artist or photographer. Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. includes Jen Bekman Gallery, 20×200 and Hey, Hot Shot! (If you’re an emerging photographer, visit Hey, Hot Shot! Competition is open.) Read More »

Beth Dow, Coaster. Courtesy of Jen Bekman Gallery

FYI, if you live in New York, Dow’s photography exhibition Ruins opens tomorrow night at 6 p.m. at Jen Bekman Gallery (6 Spring Street). Preview more of her work here.

Image credit: from I guess you don’t want to talk to me anymore by Kelly Shimoda

Twice a month, Sara Distin from Jen Bekman Projects, Inc. — which includes Jen Bekman Gallery, 20×200 and Hey, Hot Shot! — contributes a post to Flavorwire about an artist or photographer. (If you’re an emerging photographer, you might be interested to know that the Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 Competition is now open!)

Photographer Kelly Shimoda is a JBP all-star. As a Hot Shot and early 20×200 artist, she has repeatedly given us reason to look where we normally wouldn’t.

With her newest project, I guess you don’t want to talk to me anymore, Shimoda shows us all what we don’t often get to see: the amusing, mundane, mysterious, charming, heart-breaking, and hysterical text messages of strangers.

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