Big Butch Energy//Synergy: A Conversation with Nina Chanel Abney

In Session

Big Butch Energy//Synergy: A Conversation with Nina Chanel Abney

There are few artists on the contemporary landscape that have the immediacy of Nina Chanel Abney. A painter by training and now explorining collage and printmaking as mediums, Abney has traversed the September 27, 2023
Imon Boy: Look at the Stars

Features

Imon Boy: Look at the Stars

I was convinced that Spanish artist Imon Boy had a Ph.D. in Astronomy because I read it on the Internet and believed it to be so. But there's always a catch in assuming the Internet is about truth, a March 27, 2023
Radio Juxtapoz, ep 107: Julian Pace and the Art of Scale and Memory

Painting

Radio Juxtapoz, ep 107: Julian Pace and the Art of Scale and Memory

It's a conversation about sports but also doesn't have to be. Nostalgia is a huge part about sports. So is myth. So is the idea of athletics being larger than life. For Julian Pace, the Seattle-born March 21, 2023
The Jimmy Garoppolo Experiment: An Interview with Rita Oak

Illustration

The Jimmy Garoppolo Experiment: An Interview with Rita Oak

If you know the drill, then it was easy to comprehend. Jimmy Garoppolo was the San Francisco 49ers quarterback. Then it was quite widely known, at the end of the 2021 season, that he would no longer March 21, 2023
Caleb Hahne Quintana: A Permission of Otherness

Features

Caleb Hahne Quintana: A Permission of Otherness

It was startling, that monumental glass of water, in what seemed like a simple, if not ritual gesture: water held skyward as if to examine the clarity. Yet Caleb Hahne Quintana, in all his works of t March 13, 2023
The Rough Shop: The Relic Uncovered on Shikoku, Japan

Magazine

The Rough Shop: The Relic Uncovered on Shikoku, Japan

"Whatever it is you 're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting." If you are going to talk about a little shop in the middle of rural Japan, left abandoned only to contain an array of past tr March 08, 2023
Open Season, Open Home: An Interview with Amy Bennett

Painting

Open Season, Open Home: An Interview with Amy Bennett

When you first look at the new solo show of Amy Bennett's, Open Season, on view now at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica, you don't have to be conscious of the fact that some works were started February 02, 2023
Stipan Tadić: The Night Seer

Features

Stipan Tadić: The Night Seer

Artists and authors often become embodiments of the cities where they live, or intimately associated with a particular place. They can create an aesthetic of locale which we visualize as a certainty, January 30, 2023
Pat Phillips: A Great American Landscape

Features

Pat Phillips: A Great American Landscape

Pat Phillips could have been a filmmaker or a documentarian, and with a brush or pen in his hand, he is, indeed, creating a moving image of America in the 21st Century. His observational eye was hone December 19, 2022
Radio Juxtapoz, ep 101: Stipan Tadić is Not Afraid to Paint Your Favorite Place

Magazine

Radio Juxtapoz, ep 101: Stipan Tadić is Not Afraid to Paint Your Favorite Place

“… painting Central Park is a challenge because there's so many paintings of it and everyone has their own personalized visual. But I thought if I just paint it in my own way, it's going to be un December 05, 2022
Issue Preview: Winter 2023 with Cristina BanBan, Pat Phillips, Joan Brown, Stipan Tadić and more

Magazine

Issue Preview: Winter 2023 with Cristina BanBan, Pat Phillips, Joan Brown, Stipan Tadić and more

“… painting Central Park is a challenge because there's so many paintings of it and everyone has their own personalized visual. But I thought if I just paint it in my own way, it's going to be un November 25, 2022
Jaime Muñoz: Blood Memory

Features

Jaime Muñoz: Blood Memory

Pomona, California, situated east of downtown Los Angeles, between the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains, in what was once known as the citrus triangle, is a bit of a gateway into the Inland E June 20, 2022
Nothing else to see here