Juxtapoz 15th Anniversary Art Auction

We just received a summer update from Power House, whom we raised money for during our 2009 15th Anniversary Benefit and Auction. This Fall we are sending  artists to Detroit to help paint, organize, and build in the neighborhood, and Power House has spent the past 6 months buying homes, and prepping the entire ongoing project. Richard Colman, Rene Almanza, Saelee Oh, Retna, Monica Canilao (with more to be announced) will be heading out to Detroit at the end of September and early October, which of course we will be documenting.

Power House Productions goal has always been to bring artists to the neighborhood for the purpose of pushing ideas of artistic social practices and using the creative process and artists to help stabilize the neighborhood. That is why we teamed with them on the Benefit and Auction, and that is why there has been so many positive steps being made on the ground.

Here are some updates from Power House.

“Above, is the “5 Fellows House”.  This house was purchased by 5 architecture instructors from the University of Michigan which was then made into 5 different installations interacting with the house.  Power House Productions helped them find the house and consulted the 5 architects on proper boarding up steps and purchasing techniques for the house.  Currently the house is being deeded over to Power House Productions to be used as a continually additive installation house.  This is one of the houses that Juxtapoz artists will be invited to work in/around.

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If you were to ask us to name the artist we feel most embodies street art sensibility, there’s no question that we’d put French artist Invader at the very top of our list. It was Invader’s tile mosaics that became our entry point for discovering that street art could be so much more than just stencils, stickers, and wheat paste posters.

For more than a decade, Invader has been getting up with a vengeance, not only hitting countless cities around the world—but hitting them hard. Real hard. For us, the best thing about coming across a Space Invader tile is that you know the man put it there himself. Like Banksy, Invader’s choice for anonymity only adds to his intrigue and mystique.

While every creative movement has its superstars and celebrities, only a few true icons exist. And Invader is most definitely one of those very few who have achieved that well-deserved icon status.—Marc and Sara Schiller, Wooster Collective

Excerpt from March 2008, Juxtapoz n 86

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The Juxtapoz Auction is still live and includes some heavy hitters, including this stunner by Tim Biskup. Catch a glimpse of an interview with Tim in this exclusive leak from our upcoming February Issue.

Tim Biskup: I think the biggest change that I’ve had recently is kind of going through all of that art theory stuff, and kind of racking my brain trying to understand what I do, and what other people do and why people’s work is seen differently.

Understanding that stuff has gotten me to a point where now I feel way more comfortable just making art. But it’s like the initial wave. The reason why I went into that stuff in the first place is because I was really angry and it was really kind of overwhelming to see one artist get this really amazing response and get these museums and gallery shows and, you know, sell their stuff for millions of dollars and stuff like that. And to look at my work, and go, okay what’s so different? You know, that’s a gigantic question.

–Sneak peak of Katie Zuppann’s Interview with Tim Biskup, (Juxtapoz # 109) hitting newsstands February 2009.

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When New Mexico transplant and burgeoning young artist Sam Flores first hit the San Francisco art scene, it’s doubtful anyone could have predicted his trajectory. Flash forward 15 years and the world can’t help but take note of the successful career Flores has established. –Lainya Magana

Lainya Magana: What are examples of the balance you seek in your life?

Doing exactly what needs to be done instead of the wrong thing, and the fight or struggle that comes with that. I don’t really have this huge struggle with myself that’s very apparent. Everyone has demons and their little dark things; I call them dragons. That’s why you see a lot of dragons in my designs and paintings; they represent people’s habits or their urges. But I don’t have this huge monster that I fight all the time; although, we all have something.

Excerpt from Juxtapoz #95, December 2008

Carlos Ramos. “Untitled”. Acrylic on panel, 48″ x 36″, 2007.

The Corey Helford Gallery has the reputation of always exhibiting works that both please and provoke, in genres ranging from realism, to illustration, to pop surrealism.

Rather than ushering a random selection of artists through it’s gallery walls, the Corey Helford Gallery has taken to nurturing a range of emerging and established cutting edge contemporary artists. It is this discerning eye and family-like support that has propelled the gallery into a world-class establishment.
David Stoupakis. “The Breach”. Oil on board, 10″ x 10″, 2008.

In their generous fashion, the Corey Helford Gallery donated several original pieces from their artists for the Juxtapoz 15th Anniversary Gallery. Today, we feature three pieces that are available for bidding now. Check out work by Carlos Ramos, David Stoupakis, Eric Joyner.

Eric Joyner. “Magic Trick”. 15″ x 20″, Oil on wood panel.

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