Books

Book Review: Highly Anticipated "Mark Gonzales: Photographs by Sem Rubio" Monograph

There are a few icons in culture and sport for whom the mere utterance of their name elicits  transcendence and style. Everything that comes after them is compared to their creativity and innovation September 18, 2020

Studio Time

KiriLeigh Jones: A Very Open Studio

When KiriLeigh Jones won the Juxtapoz x Liquitex Timelapse contest this year, we were excited to meet the Denver-based artist on her home turf and see the painter in action. There she was, on a lift, September 16, 2020

Features

Dominic Chambers: Magical Realism

I had two windows open from Google searches right before sitting down to talk with New Haven-based painter Dominic Chambers, one researching concepts of Fabulism and how it relates to mythology and m September 14, 2020

Painting

Kayla Mahaffey: Resilience, Vibrancy, and Nostalgia

No doubt, 2020 has been one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, but the Big Bang created stars, and Chicago-based painter Kayla Mahaffey is a glittering example. Her Deconstructed solo sho September 11, 2020

Graffiti

The Drip: Craig Costello on the early days of Krink

To talk with Craig Costello is to appreciate the beautiful aesthetic of the perfect mess. The graffiti writer known as KR, celebrated for experiments in creating the Krink brand of graffiti markers a September 09, 2020

Features

Cassi Namoda: The Sense of Saudade

Cassi Namoda is a soothsaying painter who explores the duality of Mozambique’s post-colonial identity. Storytelling through metaphorical female protagonists, she distills history, bringing emotiona September 07, 2020

Features

Bisa Butler: Stitching History

Have you ever seen a picture of Frederick Douglass? I have, too. In most photographs, he is wearing a suit, carrying the weight of injustice in his furrowed brows, with an intensity in the eyes that August 31, 2020

Magazine

Preview: Fall 2020 Quarterly with Bisa Butler, Marilyn Minter, Nicolas Party, Dominic Chambers, Cassi Namoda and more!

Kerry James Marshall is not featured this time around, but his presence looms large. He’s referenced, with reverence, by a few artists, Dominic Chambers, notably, but KJM’s powerful oeuvre and wo August 27, 2020

Magazine

Physics, Psychology and Desire: A Conversation with 1010

Whether I had an unsettling premonition leading up to this interview with 1010, I still can't say, but in light of the massive global upheaval since, the series of works appear to be portals to somep August 10, 2020

Magazine

Infinity and Beyond at Laguna College of Art and Design

In a 2004 essay, Robert Williams asks, “What is that itching need to pursue curiosities and dynamics beyond our everyday necessities and comforts?” And thus, he offers the answer to a long debate July 20, 2020

Painting

Cannon Dill "Song That Kissed The Garden" @ pt.2 Gallery

Walk into a gallery, and the good shows transport you into another world. And not necessarily the immersive installations that employ technology and trickery to prepossess, or an artist who wields ma July 08, 2020

Magazine

Yu Maeda: The Balance of East and West

For decades, Americans, especially artists, have had a unique curiosity (well, an obsession) with Japanese culture. From comics to fashion, ceramics to underground art, Japan has set the standard for July 08, 2020
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