Category: Art & Design

Juxtapoz Magazine – Play the Wind: A New Exhibition and Film by Alex Prager

Juxtapoz Magazine – Play the Wind: A New Exhibition and Film by Alex Prager

Alex Prager opens an exhibition of new work, including a new film, Play the Wind at Lehmann Maupin this week. Well established for her genre-defying a…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/play-the-wind-a-new-exhibition-and-film-by-alex-prager/

Alex Prager opens an exhibition of new work, including a new film, Play the Wind at Lehmann Maupin this week. Well established for her genre-defying approach to image making that timelessly combines eras, cultural references, and personal experiences, the photographs and the film debuted in this exhibition are a fresh reflection on Pragers place of origin, site of inspiration, and frequent character—the city of Los Angeles.

January 10, 2020
Joe Rudko: Tiny Mirrors | LENSCRATCH

Joe Rudko: Tiny Mirrors

I recently curated an exhibition, Beyond the Surface, that will open at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in January about artists who intervene with the surface of a photograph. In the process of considering work to include, gallerist Tarrah Von Lintel introduce

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/12/joe-rudko-tiny-mirrors/

I recently curated an exhibition, Beyond the Surface, that will open at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in January about artists who intervene with the surface of a photograph. In the process of considering work to include, gallerist Tarrah Von Lintel introduced me to amazing photomontages of Joe Rudko. Joe currently has an exhibition, Tiny Mirrors, at the Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles, closing on Saturday, December 21st.

December 18, 2019
Juxtapoz Magazine – Kensuke Koike: Nothing Added, Nothing Removed

Juxtapoz Magazine – Kensuke Koike: Nothing Added, Nothing Removed

Whether Kensuke Koike is tearing an image to pieces, or neatly shredding it into tiny ribbons, there is precision in his method. The mad scientist, a…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/kensuke-koike-nothing-added-nothing-removed/

Whether Kensuke Koike is tearing an image to pieces, or neatly shredding it into tiny ribbons, there is precision in his method. The mad scientist, a Dr. Frankenstein carefully dissecting and reassembling the bodies of the dead, he creates new life from neglected images. Seeing bounty in the abundance of discarded ephemera, Koike rescues photographs, postcards, and other spurned items he finds at flea markets and brings them home to be reimagined and reanimated in his laboratory. “I deeply believe,” he says, “that every image has the possibility of having a new birth.” The artist refers to this work as Single Image Processing because there is only one rule: nothing can be added or removed. Anything else goes. “The rule is not a lifetime rule, of course,” he explains, “but sometimes, instead of going the easy and secure way, working under a very restricting rule can open another approach.”

November 11, 2019
We spoke to one of the internet’s most famous Photoshop provocateurs – Feature Shoot

We spoke to one of the internet’s most famous Photoshop provocateurs – Feature Shoot

Since Feature Shoot’s inception back in 2008, we’ve managed to showcase some of the best photographers on the planet. But of all the talented people we’ve had the pleasure to…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/07/we-spoke-to-one-of-the-internets-most-famous-photoshop-provocateurs/

Since Feature Shoot’s inception back in 2008, we’ve managed to showcase some of the best photographers on the planet. But of all the talented people we’ve had the pleasure to interview, only one has been able to capture Kurt Cobain’s secret pet Gremlin, exposed that Elvis is still alive, and witnessed the moment when Pablo Escobar met Mr. Rogers. We present Vemix, the digital artist that’s taking the world by storm.

August 4, 2019
The 25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age – The New York Times

The 25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age

Three artists and a pair of curators came together at The New York Times to attempt to make a list of the era’s essential artworks. Here’s their conversation.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/t-magazine/most-important-contemporary-art.html

Three artists and a pair of curators came together at The New York Times to attempt to make a list of the era’s essential artworks. Here’s their conversation.

July 17, 2019
Dan Eldon and the power of creative activism

Dan Eldon and the power of creative activism

On July 12, 1993, Kathy Eldon attempted to process the news that no mother ever wants to hear – that her 22-year-old son had been murdered. Earlier that day, American-led UN forces had launched an aerial attack on the suspected headquarters of Somali warl

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/dan-eldon-and-the-power-of-creative-activism/

On July 12 1993, the photographer and artist was killed while covering the humanitarian crisis in Somalia. So what can we learn from his legacy?

July 13, 2019
Juxtapoz Magazine – Ugur Gallenkuş’ Sobering Collages of a Polarized World

Juxtapoz Magazine – Ugur Gallenkuş’ Sobering Collages of a Polarized World

Uğur Gallenkuş is a Turkish visual artist whose sobering digital photo collages have recently been shared across social media as a stark reminder of t…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/collage/ugur-gallenkus-sobering-collages-of-a-polarized-world/

Uğur Gallenkuş is a Turkish visual artist whose sobering digital photo collages have recently been shared across social media as a reminder of the unjust state of the world. This project started as a spontaneous reaction to the disturbing image of the washed-up body of three-year-old Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, back in 2015. It eventually grew into an ongoing series of brutally honest work that provides a real picture of the highly polarized world we live in.

May 16, 2019
Juxtapoz Magazine – Joan Cornellà Shows New Painfully Funny Paintings at London’s PUBLIC gallery

Juxtapoz Magazine – Joan Cornellà Shows New Painfully Funny Paintings at London’s PUBLIC gallery

This Wednesday, London’s PUBLIC gallery is opening I’M GOOD THANKS, a solo exhibition by the renowned Catalan artist Joan Cornellà. Through…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/joan-cornella-shows-new-painfully-funny-paintings-at-london-s-public-gallery/

This Wednesday, London’s PUBLIC gallery is opening IM GOOD THANKS, a solo exhibition by the renowned Catalan artist Joan Cornellà. Through a series of new works, IM GOOD THANKS invites us to peer into Cornellàs dystopic vision of contemporary life. Paintings line the walls, surrounding a central sculpture – the artists trademark suited character, hanging from a noose and smiling psychopathically whilst posing for a selfie. Each work holds a mirror up to the depraved nature of society; confronting everything from our unnatural connection to social media and masturbatory selfie culture, to political topics such as abortion, addiction and gender issues – no subject is off limits.

April 2, 2019
Jerry Saltz: How to Be an Artist

Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist

How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively).

via Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/jerry-saltz-how-to-be-an-artist.html?utm_source=tw

How to Be an Artist 33 rules to take you from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least help you live life a little more creatively).

December 14, 2018
Juxtapoz Magazine – KAWS: Art Louder Than Words

Juxtapoz Magazine – KAWS: Art Louder Than Words

It’s hard not to notice the astronomical change in the art landscape over the past 25 years. The notoriety and fame that a generation of artists …

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/features/kaws-art-louder-than-words/

From toys to graffiti, fine art to fashion, art collecting and public art that bridges American pop culture to an international audience, KAWS has defined an era where the artist can be whatever he or she wants to be without compromise. And, in many ways, KAWS has achieved success as an artist without being shackled to a particular thing, a genre, if you will. He really is known as just KAWS, and by and large, he is quite content.

November 29, 2018
Hip hop photography, remixed by iconic graffiti artists

Hip hop photography, remixed by iconic graffiti artists

In the years leading up to the birth of hip hop, graffiti was sweeping the streets of New York and Philadelphia, reinventing itself on the cusp of a new millennium. No longer was it mere inscriptions from anonymous hands, but an emerging world filled with

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/art-2/hip-hop-photography-remixed-by-iconic-graffiti-artists/

Legendary New York photographer Janette Beckman hands her work over to the world’s biggest streets artists for new project, The Mash-Up.

November 27, 2018
Visualizing our world’s ever-growing urban infrastructure

Visualizing our world’s ever-growing urban infrastructure

For his projects Exodus and Timeout, Marcus Lyon takes overhead photographs and edits them into fantastical scenes that none

via kottke.org: https://kottke.org/18/05/visualizing-our-worlds-ever-growing-urban-infrastructure

For his projects Exodus and Timeout, Marcus Lyon takes overhead photographs and edits them into fantastical scenes that nonetheless seem plausible. LAX isn’t that large, no waterpark in Houston has that many pools, and Dubai’s roads do not have 70+ lanes, but you kinda have to look at satellite imagery on Google Maps to verify the fabrications.

June 1, 2018
Nadine Boughton: The Modess Women | LENSCRATCH

Nadine Boughton: The Modess Women

One of the taboo subjects in any arena is….well, menstruation. Nadine Boughton tackles the subject with humor and beauty in her new series, The Moddess Woman. Her project reexamines a 1950’s ad campaign for Modess sanitary napkins, a campaign that in tr

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/04/nadine-boughton-the-modess-women/

One of the taboo subjects in any arena is….well, menstration. Nadine Boughton tackles the subject with humor and beauty in her new series, The Moddess Woman. Her project reexamines a 1950’s ad campaign for Modess sanitary napkins, a campaign that in truth had little to do with bodily functions and more to do with glamour and mystique. She re-imagines the ads with 21st century consideration, and with her unique ability to transform the past. Nadine’s work has been well celebrated over the years, including a number of recent exhibitions. She has eight pieces in the current exhibit, Domestic Affairs: Domesticity, Identity, and the Home, at the Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, running through May 6, 2018, her work is featured in Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers showing at the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, through April 13. 2018. Plus she will have images in the new book by Robert Hirsch, Light and Lens, Photography in the Digital Age, due out May 14, 2018, published by Focal Press.

April 18, 2018
These Photo Tiles Transform Walls Into Soviet Apartment Blocks

These Photo Tiles Transform Walls Into Soviet Apartment Blocks

Here’s an unusual way to decorate a wall with photos: the Lithuanian design studio Gyva Grafika printed photos of apartment windows onto tiles. Once

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/03/20/these-photo-tiles-transform-walls-into-soviet-apartment-blocks/

It’s “an idea to bring outside inside,” Gyva Grafika says.

March 21, 2018
Philippe Calandre, Utopia – The Eye of Photography

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Philippe Calandre, Utopia – The Eye of Photography

For nearly twelve years, Philippe Calandre’s work has revolved around architecture, and more recently utopia. Since 2012, he has been using the technique of photomontage to introduce imaginary elements into real sites. The peculiar character of Philippe Calandre’s landscapes resides in a subtle balance between the past, the future, and the present. The use of black-and-white or subdued colors lends these images a timeless value. The photographer thus transports us into unknown regions where our dreams and our unconscious may be projected. These utopias evoke a whole literary, architectural, and cinematographic culture. In particular, we think of Thomas More, the sixteenth-century founder of the concept of utopia, of the Babel-like city imagined by Fritz Lang in Metropolis; and of the futurist visions of the architect Antonio Sant’Elia.

October 31, 2017
Q&A: Yancey Richardson on Gender Diversity in the Art World | PDNPulse

Q&A: Yancey Richardson on Gender Diversity in the Art World | PDNPulse

The gallery owner on representing women artists, the challenges they face, and whether or not collectors and curators display bias against women artists.

via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/09/qa-yancey-richardson-gender-diversity-art-world.html

A study published this spring by The City University of New York’s Guttman College argued that the art world remains predominantly white and male. Nearly 70 percent of the artists represented at 45 prominent New York galleries were male, the study suggested.

September 20, 2017
New York Stories

New York Stories

The magazine’s first-ever all-comics issue, with 12 tales of the city based on stories from The Times’s Metro desk.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/02/magazine/new-york-stories-introduction.html?_r=1

We asked Richards to discuss his experience of sifting through nearly 50 years of photos and memories during the planning of “The Run-On of Time.”

June 6, 2017
Unpleasant Design & Hostile Urban Architecture – 99% Invisible

Unpleasant Design & Hostile Urban Architecture – 99% Invisible

Benches in parks, train stations, bus shelters and other public places are meant to offer seating, but only for a limited duration. Many elements of such seats are subtly or overtly restrictive. Arm rests, for instance, indeed provide spaces to rest arms,

via 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unpleasant-design-hostile-urban-architecture/

Unpleasant designs take many shapes, but they share a common goal of exerting some kind of social control in public or in publicly-accessible private spaces. They are intended to target, frustrate and deter people, particularly those who fall within unwanted demographics.

July 6, 2016
Maggie Meiners: Visiting Rockwell | LENSCRATCH

Maggie Meiners: Revisiting Rockwell

I’ve always love photographs based on paintings and Maggie Meiner’s project, Revisiting Rockwell, is no exception. The idea of using Rockwell’s illustrative images as inspiration for photographs is a bit of a meta endeavor as it was discovered that Rockwe

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/05/maggie-meiners-visiting-rockwell/

The idea of using Rockwell’s illustrative images as inspiration for photographs is a bit of a meta endeavor as it was discovered that Rockwell’s work was based on photographs that he orchestrated. The idea of revisiting these iconic illustrations is made more interesting by Maggie’s exploration of contemporary subject matter, leading her to the conclusion that the past is not so different than the present

May 30, 2016
Juxtapoz Magazine – “Steve Jobs’ Day Off”: A Show by Eric Yahnker

Juxtapoz Magazine – “Steve Jobs’ Day Off”: A Show by Eric Yahnker

One of our favorite artists, and former cover artist, Eric Yahnker has some of the best art show names in the game. “Steve Jobs’ Day Off” is the name…

Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/steve-jobs-day-off-a-show-by-eric-yahnker/

One of our favorite artists, and former cover artist, Eric Yahnker has some of the best art show names in the game. “Steve Jobs’ Day Off” is the name of his new one at The Hole that opens on April 28 and runs through May 22, 2016.

April 27, 2016