Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  LaMontagne Gallery is pleased to present Motion Pictures, a solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Sean Downey. The work uses images and forms as proxies for a feeling sense about time. Distinctions between the political, cultural, historical, and autobiographical become fluid, and imagery arises that…

Source Colossal   At the Center for Art & Advocacy, a solo exhibition by Gilberto Rivera meditates on the material conditions of both confinement and liberation. Jailbirds presents a series of mixed-media collages that map the prison cell onto wood panel, with a variety of avian species as their protagonists. Incarcerated for two decades himself, Rivera…

Source Colossal   Known for her perplexing compositions of domestic interiors, Cinta Vidal continues to mesmerize with a new body of paintings at Thinkspace Projects. The artist’s solo show, Inward, continues her exploration of what she describes as “un-gravity constructions,” in which space and time appear folded or warped. In Vidal’s dizzying compositions, people occupy different…

Source Colossal   In 2016, a high school student in Charlottesville, Virginia, launched a petition to remove a number of statues from public view. These included Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Thomas Jefferson, and others, a majority of which a businessman named Paul Goodloe McIntire commissioned in…

Source Artsy Shark  California artist D. Lisa West creates large-scale paintings that explore transformation through texture, color and storytelling. The post Featured Artist D. Lisa West appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Company Gallery is pleased to announce Divorce Paintings, Jeanette Mundt’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Recently, Mundt’s practice has undergone a decisive evolution, with the physical life of painting now at its center. Confronting what she perceives as a loosening of collective historical memory, Mundt has…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Jasaya Neale, born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri—a city steeped in the rich heritage of jazz—developed a deep connection to jazz, not just as music but as a philosophy: “the African American’s eternal recreation of the present”. This concept fuels his work, capturing the ongoing dialogue…

Source Design You Trust  Karina Vazquez (aka Crisselle) is a Long Beach-based, self-taught artist known for her dreamlike, poetic style and evocative exploration of femininity and personal identity. She works in mixed techniques, blending digital, traditional, and experimental media to construct soulful images that invite viewers to reflect on themselves while enveloping each subject in…