Have you heard of 20×200 yet? It’s an amazing website where you can find affordable art for your home or collections. Each week they debut two new pieces, one photograph and one work on paper. You are able to order the pieces in various sizes, the smallest of which is offered at $20 and available to the first 200 buyers. Get it? They’re so creative!
I’ve been checking the site every few weeks and have found many artists’ work that I have like but these prints by Lauren DiCioccio really capture my heart. Partly for their pure aesthetic value and partly because they are inspired by fashion magazines which I happen to have a slight addiction to.
Here is how Lauren describes these pieces:
Fashion magazines are the source materials for my series color codification dot drawings. I make each piece on a sheet of frosted mylar laid over a magazine page. After assigning a color to every letter in the alphabet (numbers are in grayscale, 0=white and 9=black), I apply tiny dots of paint over every character on the page. Each drawing I make has a different color codification, and therefore a different palette. The resulting painting is a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout — like a system of Braille for the color inclined.
Head over there and take a look around. And don’t forget to check back in as their collection is constantly changing. Supporting the art community is something we can all profit from and with talent like this, you build a beautiful art collection without breaking the bank!