"50,000 Stripe Factory Sample" by Danica Phelps, a 2008 watercolor and gouache on paper on panel work

Like Warhol, Hirst and Koons before her, artist Danica Phelps is hiring others to produce her work.

As part of her ``Material Recovery'' exhibition at the Zach Feuer Gallery, Phelps has opened a ``Stripe Factory.''

Workers sit in the gallery going about their business until an order comes in, then get to work laying the eight shades of brown stripes, line by line, in horizontal, vertical or square configurations. The minimum is 50,000 stripes, going for 15 cents each, with a three-way split among worker, Phelps and the gallery. Issues of fair pay, art produced on demand, price transparency and good working conditions all come into play.

For the past 10 years, Phelps has relentlessly chronicled her activities and expenditures in lists, grids and paint; prior canvases featured red stripes for money spent, green for earnings and gray for debt.

She made her last list in 2007. Here she takes individual letters from that final compiling and constructs them from trash: corrugated cardboard, plastic, paper and stuffed fabric. Hung mobile-like from the ceiling, the letters are a fragmented record of a much-examined life.

Also on view, pinned across three walls, are long scrolls depicting Phelps's recent trip to India for in vitro fertilization. Scenes of oxen, clinics, a sitar player, lorries, traffic and trees, rendered in the artist's spare, steady hand, are for sale by the inch.

Prices start at $40 per inch for the scrolled work and $7,500 for a stripe painting. Individual letters are $100.