4 Quick Items: New Compound Editions from Andy Yoder; Press; More Press; and a Possible Call for Images

Compound Editions is pleased to announce a new multiple by Vermont-based sculptor Andy Yoder! Andy Yoder
All Your Eggs
2009
4.25" x 7.25" x 7.25"
23-carat gold, clay, wood, excelsior, and shredded U.S. currency
Edition of 100, plus 10 APs
$100.00 each

Visit the Compound Editions blog for more information.

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Speaking of Compound Editions, the inaugural project by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida, Our Condolences, Vol. 1., has received some fantastic press, including:

New York Magazine, 12/15/08
Art + Auction, February 2009
Art in America, February 2009

Many thanks to the kind writers at those publications for their stories!
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Speaking of press, our current exhibition, "Things Fall Apart," curated by Joy Garnett and featuring the work of Stephen Andrews, Paul Chan + The Front, Mounir Fatmi, Yevgeniy Fiks, Joy Garnett, Susan Hefuna, Christopher Lowry Johnson, Carlos Motta, Renata Poljak, Susan Silas, was selected as an Editor's Pick by Artinfo.com. You can read Jillian Steinhauer's thoughtful response to the exhibition here.

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And finally, speaking of thoughtful, I received a very interesting suggestion by artist Mark Creegan the other day in response to my decision to take down the hot links to images in previous posts (a work in progress) and wanted to put his idea out there for feedback. Mark's email was sent the same time I was experiencing a sense of nostalgic melancholy going back through the old posts here. I used to do a series of posts titled "Artist of the Week," which was a nice opportunity for me to highlight various artists outside our gallery program. It was much easier to do that back in the days when were were moving from Williamsburg to Chelsea, and I had more time on my hands. But I miss the opportunity to use the blog to provide a bit of promotion for artists who we're not currently working with. In comes Mark with a potential solution to both issues:

I had an idea that perhaps you could have some artists illustrate your posts. You could send out assignments to several artists who sign up and you pick the best one for that particular post. Of course that would mean you would need to know the post topic before hand which may get complicated but i thought it would be kind of fun.

Mark insightfully highlighted the central complication here (I often don't know in advance what I'm going to blog about), but in thinking about this I realized that I do blog on a number of topics fairly regularly and perhaps the "assignments" could reflect those. Here are the most popular tags among the topics here:

• art market
• politics
• art criticism
• art museums
• art appreciation
• selling art
• gallery-artist relationship

So the idea would be to send via email (I'll set one up specifically for this purpose if the feedback suggests it could work out to a mutual benefit...please do not send images to my gallery email, it's full enough already) a jpg, no more than 72 dpi or 300 pixels wide, of an original drawing or photo of your making to illustrate one of those themes. I'll ask that you include a copyright notice and "Courtesy of" text at the bottom of the image and send me a link to some site (one please) that has samples of your other work. This way I'll have a library of approved images with permission to use them to illustrate posts here, you can get a bit of an audience you may not have already, and anyone can link back to your other work as your payment (because there won't be any $$$ exchanged, just to be clear).

Let me know if you see problems and/or potential here. If enough folks think it would be fun and fairly straightforward, I'm happy to work out any of the devilish details.