Justin Liam O’Brien, even in the title of his newest exhibition, All Sunsets Risen, is working with opposing forces; a duality. Things that set also will eventually rise here in this world. What also becomes clear in this celebrated painters career, one of which Juxtapoz has championed and admired for years, is that he also working with the echo of the Precisionism and the works of Demuth or Sheeler, but with figuration as the main subject as opposed to architecture. It's a stunning effect, and the new show in Paris at Semiose, shows the drastic shift he has embarked on from digital exploration to a painter, but not without keeping the spirit of something graphic in his works. As the gallery notes, viewers can witness to the “honeymoon period” of this highly original world, where people fall in love as if for the very first time, and really, its not hard to fall in love this work. —Evan Pricco