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Matt Bollinger's aim is both to define America but also define himself. Okay, okay, that seems like a wide net to throw, and it maybe it even seems simplistic, but there is his contemporary approach to social realistic, Ashcan School style that has made Bollinger one of the most interesting artists working today in painting, drawing and animation that speaks about and creates narratives of midwest...

As a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, and a career as an artist, writer, abolitionist, Patrisse Cullors is one of the most influential figures in contemporary culture of the 21st century. What the Los Angeles-born Cullors has found in art is something quite fascinating in contrast to work as a activist: space to explore the limitations of language and the expansive nature of creating...

The first time we encountered the works of London-based Christian Quin Newell was at his stunning Earth altar solo show at Public Gallery. Newell works in an otherworldly realm, dreamscapes if you will (more on this in a second). His newest solo show, The Way, at the same London-based Public Gallery, created what we could say are cosmological paintings, a combination of fictional mysticism, mediev...

When you open up the Fall 2024 Juxtapoz Quarterly, our colleague Kristin Farr brings up a caveat when looking (or hearing) about the works of Hannah Wilson. "Embedded in this interview is a required watchlist: Motion pictures that catalyze the arresting paintings of Hannah Wilson." What perhaps you need to know is that Wilson's works are dramatic in that they are the in-between moments of film, st...

We often said with Juxtapoz that the power of art is to make people feel engaged, feel good and feel ownership over both their community and the world-at-large. Art makes you feel alive, makes you thoughtfully engaged, whether the art challenges you or makes you just have a smile on your face. It's the beauty of it: art allows you to activate yourself. On the occasion of Ken Nwadiogbu taking part...

We often ask ourselves how art can heal or make us better understand the world around us. It's the function of art, isn't it? We may not have a universal or agreed upon definition of what art is or means, but we have an understanding that art is an expression of creativity in response to both personal and communal experiences. It's complicated, but good art makes you feel and understand something...

A new season of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast is here, and we start with something that feels quite relevant as we cross-over into the halfway mark of 2024. The concept is this: Truth is a Moving Target, and the artist and exhibition it pertains to is Southern California's Jaime Muñoz who just opened his first solo museum show at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles. When Jaime makes work, he i...

Continuing our series of podcasts from the Crystal Ship festival in Ostend, Belgium, Radio Juxtapoz' Doug Gillen sat down with Spanish muralist and painter DULK to capture the essence of his practice that has long featured wild animals in a new urban context. The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 1412was recorded in Ostend in...

Ah, its nice to have a little color talk here on the podcast. Dublin, Irelands' ACHES is a theorist of color. He combines a multitude of ideas and styles into his work, whether graffiti, murals, painting, graphic design, all into an aesthetic that is deservedly his and one of the more unique in the street genre. When you see an ACHES, you know its him. Now on this occasion we aren't in Dublin or t...

It was always as much as an intervention as it was a hotel. When Banksy opened the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem in Palestine in the West Bank in 2017, it was met by both amazement and a bit of shock. In what, in a way, like, "Wait, he opened an actual hotel in the West Bank? By the wall? How did he get that done?" And of course there was the simple: "I want to go. Can I go? Is it safe? I need to...

When Cindy Bernhard found the cats she found herself. That is the short summary of the story. During the pandemic, and years of trying to find her artistic voice, Chicago-based Bernhard painted a cat in her work and found that voice, that direction, that narrative, the character that was her but also something so universal. The cats aren't just lying about, they are sleekily wandering beautiful ro...

The thing about FAILE is that they are always trying to take you somewhere you feel like you have been but may have dreamt. Since coming into street art at the pivotal moment of the early 2000s and their various explorations into installation, muralism, nightlife and fine art, you recongnize the world of FAILE even though it's something completely fresh and new. I think of it as the imaginary worl...

As these things happen when we are on the road, we met a Canadian in Ostend, Belgium. Radio Juxtapoz was on the road for the annual Crystal Ship and as we love with the mural festivals we get to see the process, the ideas and the creation of so many works from so many different practices. Katie Green creates masks, what she calls "intimate watercolour personas that are eerie and ethereal." On a mu...

Hong Kong was the center of the art world a few weeks back, as Basel week set the stage for the prominent art capital to get some much overdue love from the pandemic era shutdowns. Juxtapoz , and mainly Radio Juxtapoz, was there for HK Walls , the esteemed mural fest celebrating its 9th edition with a roster of international and Hong Kong-based painters. On the occasion, as we always like to make...

We love when an old friend becomes a new friend all at once. We have known and featured the works of German-artist Cathrin Hoffmann many times through the years and one of the things we love about her practice of going from digital to analog all while keeping the spirit of something from another world. Not alien, but just something beyond human. But, in that, she seems to be capturing the exact in...

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. A...

On the occasion of his newest solo show, Abstract Figurativism: Loving Fiercely , at BSMT in London's Dalston, Radio Juxtapoz sat down with Ben Wakeling for a special conversation about art, healing, community, loss, grief and love. As the Artist in Residence of the North London Trust NHS Arts Programme that he helped found, Wakeling collaborates with patients experiencing episodes of mania or psy...

Christian Rex van Minnen and I decided to talk on Valentine's Day. He was about to be announced as the cover artist for the SPRING 2024 Juxtapoz Quarterly and, like two old friends should do, we wanted to have a talk on a day where sharing your feelings is a rite of passage. Over the years, the Santa Cruz-based painter and I have had a long history of, you guessed it, long talks, but we haven't sp...

Los Angeles is a big place. Sprawling is the description most give it, and that feels so apt once you spend a few days here. It's not a top to bottom type of city, but left to right, almost like a city laid out like a book. A city of narratives and chapters. And right now, there aren't many an artists who seem to be writing a tale quite like Ozzie Juarez. As a painter, curator and incubator, Juare...

We are back in London for the 2nd episode of the 15th season of Radio Juxtapoz with a conversation with British painter, Kemi Onabulé. One of the things that stood out for us and why we wanted to speak with Kemi was this quote she said about her new show, All The Land Is Spoken For, on view now at Sim Smith. "There is so much to enjoy from a tree as a painter, you can paint its skeleton as if it w...

Welcome to a new season of Radio Juxtapoz. And why not kick off the 15th season with someone who not only pushes the boundaries of a medium but plays a bit on the absurdity that is modern life, contemporary art and the ways we experience both. William Cobbing explores both a physical and digital world with something quite antiquated: clay. He can be both a performance artist and a studio practitio...

We close out our 14th season and the 2023 with a special conversation with friends, about the story of the year, the impact it has had on each of their lives and how art can be a conduit to understanding, care and shared humanity. "The Israel-Palestine Episode" features conversations with two Radio Juxtapoz alums, Israeli artist Know Hope, Palestinian-American artist Saj Issa, as well as Anthropol...

When you go to Miami each year, you are hoping to discover something new, something fresh, an artist that changes the way you look at the contemporary art landscape. For Radio Juxtapoz, we were able to go North while heading South, where we hosted a live panel conversation with Saimaiyu Akesuk, an Iqaluit born, Kinngait-based artist whose distinctive patterns and oil pastel animal drawings drew th...

It's refreshing to talk to an artist who likes a bit of the absurd. And who bucked the trend of his home country and started making work that blended performance, fashion, sculpture, text, video, theater and interaction that turned him into an internationally acclaimed artist who is known to make fine art out of, well, the absurd moments of daily life. Vienna-based Erwin Wurm comes from a refreshi...

There are just certain artists who know their subject. For Tim Conlon, freight train graffiti is his muse, his subject, his love, his investigation. As a freight graffiti artist himself, Tim took that passion and understanding of the North American railroad system and turned into wonderfully constructed photoreal paintings of graff on trains as well as a series of train set works featuring graffit...