Last January 2012, we featured UK-based Charming Baker in the magazine, with a wonderful portrait of him with rifle shooting his paintings. This week, Baker will open his largest ever solo exhibition at Milk Studios Los Angeles. Entitled Lie Down I Think I Love You, it will showcase new work exploring the unpredictable nature of love. It will comprise of 20 paintings as well as prints and sculptures. Baker will also unveil a sculptural installation depicting an oversized plastic toy passenger plane.

Charming Baker, the UK artist that was featured in our January 2012 issue, collaborated with famed British fashion designer (he makes a fantastic sunglass, FYI) Paul Smith on Triumph in the Face of Absurdity, a polished cast aluminium bicycle now on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The work was part of Britain Creates 2012: Fashion + Art Collusion, where leading British fashion designers and visual artists collaborate in a ground-breaking series of works commissioned as part of the London 2012 Festival.

Our January 2012 issue of Juxtapoz, featuring Audrey Kawasaki on the cover and features on Peter Beste, Horfe, Mark Whalen, Luis Toledo, and Charming Baker is currently on newsstands and in our webstore. We suggest that if you have ever wanted to know about Houston Rap, Parisian graffiti, and shooting your own paintings, this is the issue for you.

We just got a few advanced copies of our January 2012 issue, featuring cover artwork by Los Angeles-based Audrey Kawasaki. Issue n132 (if you are counting at home, and our 18th year) is kicked off with features on Kawasaki, Peter Beste, Charming Baker, Mark Whalen, Horfe, and Luis Toledo. More in the coming weeks...

Charming Baker, whom we are preparing a feature in the magazine right now, had a sold-out show, Everything Must Go, at Mercer Street Studio in London this past summer, and the UK-artist was kind enough to share his video made during the exhibition. Along with new paintings there was a collection of bronze busts and prints at the show.

UK-based painter, Charming Baker, has been creating impressive oil on wood pieces that we have been hearing a lot of buzz about. His influences include "Cheap books, heroes, girls, Zulus, odd-looking women, suburbia, da riddum, family, stories, horses, dogs, packaging, summer holidays, the smell of make-up and cheap perfume, powertools, tea, tomatoes, Britain in Colour."