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Introducing Andrea Heimer and her punchy graphic work exploring damsels, a menagerie of animals... and encouragement! Enjoy.

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(Re) Introducing Jen Bekman's 20 x 200 on-line print gallery — It’s a huge art week here in NYC, with Scope, The Armory Show and the Bridge Art Fair bringing galleries and artists from all over the world to town. Get out there and take a look! But if you come home lamenting that lots of the art you enjoyed was way to big for your small apartment, not to mention WAY out of your price range — gallerist and democratizer of art, Jen Bekman, has a solution (can you spare $20 for a piece of art?)

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Introducing Jessica Baker who pulls copper and solar plate etchings, monotypes and monoprints on the etching press in her Clinton Hill studio. In the works we are showing here, you can see her interest in circles as a powerful archetype of spirit and the cycle of life (the bold color monotypes) begin to imprint itself directly onto materials collected from nature. Most recently, she has been printing on leaves collected from around Brooklyn, primarily in Prospect Park.

Introducing Anna Atkins, one of the earliest female photographers who pioneered the use of cyanotype (aka "sunprints") in the mid 1800s to record the beauty and variety of underwater plants. As photo processes go, cyanotypes are super approachable — learn how to make them yourself below!

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Introducing Melissa Meyer. We love how these paintings are sturdy and settled into their structure, while keeping all the freedom, fluidity and spontaneity of the brush strokes.

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Introducing Elizabeth Gower, an artist from Australia currently in residence here in NYC. And lucky for us, she has brought along her ever-growing collection of paper plate cut outs (inspired by snowflakes and numbering up to approx 2,000, and none repeated!) Titled, Amor Infiniti, she began making these in 1997 and has installed them in various configurations and locations.

birthday party, 24 x 24 in, 2006. gouache and acrylic on wood

Introducing Caris Reid and her portrayals of the charm, the play, the mystery and the darkness of childhood. (click through to see this painting as it hangs in the home of interior designer Tobin Heminway, plus a few more beauties...)

House Camouflage with Red Maple, 20 x 30 inches, acrylic on photograph, 2008.

CAN YOU FIND THE HOME IN THIS PICTURE?

Introducing Lisa Dahl.

The answer is revealed below the jump... as well as more of Dahl's houses (and even mattresses in honor of AT's Bedroom Month and, um, the need for super secure places to stash your money in this economic climate).

Bead Lace Heritage: Battle, 2007, 14" x 20", watercolor and graphite on paper.

Introducing Gina Adams who has been researching her Ojibwe and Lithuanian heritages. She was inspired by memories of her grandmother and aunts always compulsively making lace, needlework, and crochet afghans, and her grandfather making beadwork. This body of work commemorates these amazing handcrafts. See more below...

Pink Cherry. 2008. Mixed Media on Panel. 12" by 12".

Check out these merry mixed-media works from Liz Tran who creates environments in which she'd like to live... "or at least spend the winter in." Care to bundle up in any of these? Which artists make places you'd like to winter in? More sweet collage-works below the jump.

Introducing Kristen Thiele and her luscious paintings of "Mad Men" era cocktailing to put you in the mood for the holiday party crush...

Ghost. Collage, gouache, sur papier trouvé

Introducing Eva Eun-Sil Han an artist working in the UK -- and coming to you via an AT reader tip! Check out her thought-provoking collages...

Skin (Angel). 20 x 16. Pigment, oil, egg, and skin glue on panel. 2007

Introducing Ian Robertson Duncan and his quiet, contemplative icons ... wood panels bearing rich surfaces; traces of text, hand rubbing, incised lines, and layers of pigment.

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See this work at the artist's studio and new gallery space on the lower east side tonight! Details below.

Eye Star America, 2001, papers, stamps, maps, envelopes, string, ink, gouache, 35" diam..

Introducing Dodi Wexler. This week I was visiting friends in Chicago, and got to spend time with some of my favorite collage works by Dodi Wexler – an American artist now living and working in London. A few days later, while I was simultaneously thinking super duper American “get-out-the-vote” thoughts AND browsing her website… guess what? I came across a “Patriotic” section of her site. Check out these collages, flying under that banner… and enjoy a few more of her exquisitely constructed pieces.

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