PICTURE BOOK: MATT WEBER
The following is an excerpt from the November, 2015 issue of Juxtapoz Magazine, on sale now. There is a long tradition of documenting urban renewal through painting, film and photography, recording the dynamics, as well as a special moment in a particular time. While Times Square now seems to be consumer central, it was once […]
Amozad, Aliha & Honargardi on a same page
Mohammad Reza Amouzad, born in 1975, has got his B.A. in painting and his M.A. in graphic design, also graduated from Calligraphy Association. Learning calligraphy, educating in painting and graphic design, experience of sculpting and research activities, has made his artwork different from artists of his generation, but his passion for calligraphy has made the […]
Aliha Gallery’s opening
Aliha Gallery’s opening ceremony has been held on 9th Oct. 2015. The Gallery’s initiative concept has been formed around the notion of interaction. With this notion, the Gallery’s priority is creating a coherent network of talented and creative artists from master to amateur spectrum. Therefore new talents along with the originality of masters artworks, have […]
PORTALS PROJECT OPENS GATEWAY FROM SF TO TEHRAN
San Francisco will soon be home to the latest gateway in the Portals Project, a public art project curated by Shared_Studios that uses design and technology to connect strangers and artists across the globe. So what exactly is a portal? A portal is a retrofitted shipping container painted gold and immersed with audio and visual […]
THE NEW WORLD TRANSPARENT SPECIMENS
SHINSEKAI’S ‘THE NEW WORLD TRANSPARENT SPECIMENS’ Shinsekai’s The New World Transparent Specimens are tiny, usually aquatic life forms like fish and seahorses that are put through a process of chemical replacement of the proteins and dyeing of the bones. The result is a transparent creature that glows in eerie vibrant colors. The creatures are […]
DALEAST IN BORÅS
Swedish town of Borås recently hosted another edition of their No Limit Borås street art festival. Along with other 10 international artist, Chinese-born DALeast was one of the participants, leaving his recognizable mark in the town’s university library. The artist spent a whole week working on 5 different sections of the 3 storey building, creating […]
THE GILDED AGE
This past weekend in Culver City, Thinkspace Gallery opened the great group/themed exhibition, The Gilded Age, featuring the works of Aaron Horkey, Esao Andrews, and Joao Ruas. We did an entire feature on the exhibition in our September 2015 issue, which you can read here, and on Saturday night, we headed to the opening to […]
PHOTOGRAPHING ABANDONED HISTORIES
Of all the intriguing locations that Abandoned America creator Matthew Christopher has photographed, the New Castle Elks Lodge holds numerous visual elements that make the images truly captivating. Built in 1916, the New Castle Elks Lodge was a luxurious setting for its members who were primarily part of vaudeville and theater groups. There was a […]
KEHINDE WILEY “A NEW REPUBLIC”
Opening on September 20 and running through January 10, 2016, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, an overview highlighting the range of the artist’s prolific 14-year career and comprising approximately 60 works. Ever since our cover story with Kehinde in January 2010, we have been so excited to […]
PAT PERRY’S WEARABLE ART EXHIBITION “LIFE IN MOTION”
Amongst the gallery’s portfolio of artists, Art-A-Porter’s curators have selected the art ofJuxtapoz favorite Pat Perry from Michigan for their next wearable art exhibition: Life in Motion. Each artwork has been adapted by the gallery’s designers to the clothing collection (shirts, ties, dresses, etc.). The clothes are carefully produced in the Art-A-Porter’s Montreal offices (Canada) […]
DAVIS AYER
Born and raised in Austin, Texas but now based in Los Angeles, photographer Davis Ayer will be showing new work this Saturday at Book & Job Gallery in San Francisco. “Davis Ayer began taking photos in 2007. Coming from a background in architectural history, he was originally drawn to space, shapes, and abstract compositions. Under […]
GRAFFITI WITH DEMS
Dems has an undeniable thirst for the graffiti game and is churning out tons of new work all the time. Here’ a collection of some of his recent walls, which are all quality pieces. See more of Dems’s work here
NUART 2015, DAY 1 AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
It’s so good to be back. This is our fifth (maybe sixth, who’s counting?) year at Nuart, and not only is this the festival’s 15th year, but they have an outstanding line-up creating art around Stavanger, Norway with the topic of play and intervention at its heart. We just got into town, and the artists […]
LEE FRIEDLANDER & PIERRE BONNARD “PHOTOGRAPHS & DRAWINGS”
Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York is pleased to present Lee Friedlander & Pierre Bonnard: Photographs & Drawings, on view from September 10 through October 24, 2015. Featuring gelatin silver prints by legendary American photographer Lee Friedlander in dialogue with drawings by the French Post-Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard, the exhibition explores the aesthetic affinities that unite […]
TED PIM – STREET ART IN DERELICT BUILDINGS
Irish artist Ted Pim is inspired by European painters from the Renaissance who are called the “Old Masters”. Their work is initially viewed in museums or in old houses. Ted Pim takes them out of context and gives them their life back in odd places like in hangar or in abandoned buildings. He creates a […]
