Juxtapoz Magazine - Juxtapoz Magazine - HomeOnline version of the leading quarterly contemporary and underground art bible, Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine, with featured articles, blogs, video, reader art, gallery guides, and archives.https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/2024-03-19T02:15:59-07:00Joomla! - Open Source Content ManagementTodd James Evokes the Silent Power and Beauty of the Everyday2024-03-19T00:59:56-07:002024-03-19T00:59:56-07:00https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/todd-james-evokes-the-silent-power-and-beauty-of-the-everyday/Alex NicholsonEditor@juxtapoz.com<div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/a66c95ff32a2eee3384e66d739369f1c_L.jpg" alt="Todd James Evokes the Silent Power and Beauty of the Everyday" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Todd James's new exhibition, Musical Chairs, at Galleria Patricia Armocida, represents a visual bridge between James’s oil stick paintings exhibited in Copenhagen and New York in 2023, and his signature acrylic canvas paintings from past exhibitions. </div><div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/a66c95ff32a2eee3384e66d739369f1c_L.jpg" alt="Todd James Evokes the Silent Power and Beauty of the Everyday" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Todd James's new exhibition, Musical Chairs, at Galleria Patricia Armocida, represents a visual bridge between James’s oil stick paintings exhibited in Copenhagen and New York in 2023, and his signature acrylic canvas paintings from past exhibitions. </div>Radio Juxtapoz, ep 134: Johanna Bath Has a Real Love For Life2024-03-19T00:40:41-07:002024-03-19T00:40:41-07:00https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/radio-juxtapoz-ep-134-johanna-bath-has-a-real-love-for-life/Editor -- EvanEditor@juxtapoz.com<div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/ae2b59d04f3c5a6d9673450df777d641_L.jpg" alt="Radio Juxtapoz, ep 134: Johanna Bath Has a Real Love For Life" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">The first thing we researched when we came across the paintings of Johanna Bath was this simple declaration "I am madly in love with life." That is a great place to start, because sometimes a painter just needs to love the life they are inspired by. Maybe, in her distorted and almost hazy representations of life and in her fate to become an artist, she finds life just a little more exhilarating.</div><div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/ae2b59d04f3c5a6d9673450df777d641_L.jpg" alt="Radio Juxtapoz, ep 134: Johanna Bath Has a Real Love For Life" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">The first thing we researched when we came across the paintings of Johanna Bath was this simple declaration "I am madly in love with life." That is a great place to start, because sometimes a painter just needs to love the life they are inspired by. Maybe, in her distorted and almost hazy representations of life and in her fate to become an artist, she finds life just a little more exhilarating.</div>Whilst The World Sleeps: Classic Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh2024-03-19T00:26:33-07:002024-03-19T00:26:33-07:00https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/whilst-the-world-sleeps-classic-photographs-rendered-in-play-doh/Alex NicholsonEditor@juxtapoz.com<div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/c388f1d1abb8d253873650d2910b31d6_L.jpg" alt="Whilst The World Sleeps: Classic Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">The images in Whilst The World Sleeps were created late at night using Play-Doh, an empty wine bottle as rolling pin, a knife and a chopping board. Eleanor Macnair began her Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh project on an experimental whim in 2013 and has since amassed both a large audience and an archive of nearly 400 recreated images. Whilst The World Sleeps draws from this archive to create an alternative photographic history told in just over fifty recreated images, many published here for the first time.</div><div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/c388f1d1abb8d253873650d2910b31d6_L.jpg" alt="Whilst The World Sleeps: Classic Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">The images in Whilst The World Sleeps were created late at night using Play-Doh, an empty wine bottle as rolling pin, a knife and a chopping board. Eleanor Macnair began her Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh project on an experimental whim in 2013 and has since amassed both a large audience and an archive of nearly 400 recreated images. Whilst The World Sleeps draws from this archive to create an alternative photographic history told in just over fifty recreated images, many published here for the first time.</div>Modern West Celebrates the Works of Women Artists in "Reframed"2024-03-19T00:00:03-07:002024-03-19T00:00:03-07:00https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/modern-west-celebrates-the-works-of-women-artists-in-reframed/Editor -- EvanEditor@juxtapoz.com<div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/a6da256b439d482c5972d842a9f37de0_L.jpg" alt="Modern West Celebrates the Works of Women Artists in "Reframed"" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Modern West will open Reframed, an exhibition celebrating the works of women artists influenced by the modern and contemporary West. This group show will be on display March 21 through May 3, 2024. </div><div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/a6da256b439d482c5972d842a9f37de0_L.jpg" alt="Modern West Celebrates the Works of Women Artists in "Reframed"" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Modern West will open Reframed, an exhibition celebrating the works of women artists influenced by the modern and contemporary West. This group show will be on display March 21 through May 3, 2024. </div>The Dadaism of Dada Khanyisa2024-03-18T03:22:38-07:002024-03-18T03:22:38-07:00https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/the-dadaism-of-dada-khanyisa/Editor -- EvanEditor@juxtapoz.com<div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/7308a1db2e0e3c76eb94caf26e73600b_L.jpg" alt="The Dadaism of Dada Khanyisa" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Cape Town-based artist Dada Khanyisa isn't a Dadaist, so maybe the title here might be a little misleading. But as I thought about the work Khanyisa makes, a mix of politically astute and what is theorized as "going out culture but also going in culture,” I concluded that even if it's not Dadaism, it's Dadaisms.</div><div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/7308a1db2e0e3c76eb94caf26e73600b_L.jpg" alt="The Dadaism of Dada Khanyisa" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Cape Town-based artist Dada Khanyisa isn't a Dadaist, so maybe the title here might be a little misleading. But as I thought about the work Khanyisa makes, a mix of politically astute and what is theorized as "going out culture but also going in culture,” I concluded that even if it's not Dadaism, it's Dadaisms.</div>Cindy Ji Hye Kim "Silhouettes in Lune" @ SCAD MOA, Savannah2024-03-18T03:11:39-07:002024-03-18T03:11:39-07:00https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/in-session/cindy-ji-hye-kim-silhouettes-in-lune-scad-moa-savannah/Editor -- EvanEditor@juxtapoz.com<div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/0a34b4d962c2536b9fe56bfc7987c242_L.jpg" alt="Cindy Ji Hye Kim "Silhouettes in Lune" @ SCAD MOA, Savannah" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Cindy Ji Hye Kim presents Silhouettes in Lune, a site-responsive installation of paintings, sculptures, and a hand-drawn mural that spans the upper portion of the gallery. The exhibition reflects the artist’s preoccupation with the psychological space of the unconscious, its secrets and symbols, and its narrative potential within the anatomy of an image.</div><div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/0a34b4d962c2536b9fe56bfc7987c242_L.jpg" alt="Cindy Ji Hye Kim "Silhouettes in Lune" @ SCAD MOA, Savannah" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Cindy Ji Hye Kim presents Silhouettes in Lune, a site-responsive installation of paintings, sculptures, and a hand-drawn mural that spans the upper portion of the gallery. The exhibition reflects the artist’s preoccupation with the psychological space of the unconscious, its secrets and symbols, and its narrative potential within the anatomy of an image.</div>All Entities Are Subject to Decay in Super Future Kid's "Stardust"2024-03-18T00:21:00-07:002024-03-18T00:21:00-07:00https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/all-entities-are-subject-to-decay-in-super-future-kid-s-stardust/Alex NicholsonEditor@juxtapoz.com<div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/982b12d49c7f577df432423597fbf594_L.jpg" alt="All Entities Are Subject to Decay in Super Future Kid's "Stardust"" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Born in East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Super Future Kid's artistic endeavors are influenced by pop culture elements, including video games, music, early internet culture, and toys from West Germany following reunification.</div><div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/982b12d49c7f577df432423597fbf594_L.jpg" alt="All Entities Are Subject to Decay in Super Future Kid's "Stardust"" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Born in East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Super Future Kid's artistic endeavors are influenced by pop culture elements, including video games, music, early internet culture, and toys from West Germany following reunification.</div>Making Light of Everything @ Centre de la photographie Genève2024-03-18T00:08:37-07:002024-03-18T00:08:37-07:00https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/making-light-of-everything-centre-de-la-photographie-geneve/Alex NicholsonEditor@juxtapoz.com<div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/2d2c9e164e30096beb5b61f7890b575a_L.jpg" alt="Making Light of Everything @ Centre de la photographie Genève" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Intimacy is a concept that is often difficult to define, intangible and elusive. It can be found in a childhood memory, in the interior of one’s home or neighbourhood, in the gestures exchanged with loved ones, but also in the familiarity with an image, or in the attachment to an object, a material or a texture.</div><div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/2d2c9e164e30096beb5b61f7890b575a_L.jpg" alt="Making Light of Everything @ Centre de la photographie Genève" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">Intimacy is a concept that is often difficult to define, intangible and elusive. It can be found in a childhood memory, in the interior of one’s home or neighbourhood, in the gestures exchanged with loved ones, but also in the familiarity with an image, or in the attachment to an object, a material or a texture.</div>The Vibrant World of Paul Wackers' "Day Dripper" @ Soco Gallery2024-03-15T00:57:43-07:002024-03-15T00:57:43-07:00https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/the-vibrant-world-of-paul-wackers-day-dripper-soco-gallery/Alex NicholsonEditor@juxtapoz.com<div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/799e99c34fffbbcb90b567b1c87a479c_L.jpg" alt="The Vibrant World of Paul Wackers' "Day Dripper" @ Soco Gallery" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">A spur-of-the-moment excursion, a day trip involves little planning but much possibility. Bracketed between morning and night, the outing is brief, but a diversion from routine nonetheless—one in which the tripper sets aside real time for awareness, curiosity, and chance, even close to home.</div><div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/799e99c34fffbbcb90b567b1c87a479c_L.jpg" alt="The Vibrant World of Paul Wackers' "Day Dripper" @ Soco Gallery" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">A spur-of-the-moment excursion, a day trip involves little planning but much possibility. Bracketed between morning and night, the outing is brief, but a diversion from routine nonetheless—one in which the tripper sets aside real time for awareness, curiosity, and chance, even close to home.</div>Raymond Lemstra’s Painstakingly Detailed Pencil Drawings2024-03-15T00:51:47-07:002024-03-15T00:51:47-07:00https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/raymond-lemstra-s-painstakingly-detailed-pencil-drawings/Alex NicholsonEditor@juxtapoz.com<div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/1b127647f76455fc24ac02495593c477_L.jpg" alt="Raymond Lemstra’s Painstakingly Detailed Pencil Drawings" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">The foundation of Raymond Lemstra's artistic practice lies in creating detailed, intricate drawings on paper. These works catalyzed his transition to painting, which became a focal point during a residency in Somo, Spain, in 2015. More recently, Lemstra has reinvigorated his commitment to drawing, alongside his pursuit of painting.</div><div class="K2FeedImage"><img src="https://www.juxtapoz.com/media/k2/items/cache/1b127647f76455fc24ac02495593c477_L.jpg" alt="Raymond Lemstra’s Painstakingly Detailed Pencil Drawings" /></div><div class="K2FeedIntroText">The foundation of Raymond Lemstra's artistic practice lies in creating detailed, intricate drawings on paper. These works catalyzed his transition to painting, which became a focal point during a residency in Somo, Spain, in 2015. More recently, Lemstra has reinvigorated his commitment to drawing, alongside his pursuit of painting.</div>