Source Colossal   All images © Masayoshi Matsumoto, shared with permission Armed with colorful balloons and plenty of air, Masayoshi Matsumoto (previously) twists and ties a playfully quirky menagerie of inflatable creatures. A chemical engineer by day, the artist spends his off hours stretching the malleable material into a sticky-fingered tree frog or plump squirrel, elevating the creations…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  DABSMYLA, the husband and wife duo from Australia that has called Los Angeles home for over a decade, have always been a burst of color. They have navigated through the art world, and to some extent, their own forays into the commercial world, with a cast of…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  With recent exhibitions at The Crocker Art Museum in 2020, and Virginia MOCA in 2018, to Schorr’s epically received midcareer survey in 2009 at the San Jose Museum of Art, recognition by the museum world has solidified what the gallery and collecting public have known for decades—…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  “I am constantly in limbo,” Jillian Evelyn tells me on a summer day from her studio in Los Angeles, a relatable frame of mind for the times we live in. I have always considered Evelyn’s work to possess directness, as well as providing room to breathe. Her…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  There was something telling that Anna Park disclosed this week as she opened her solo show, Mirror Shy, at Blum and Poe. “When I moved to NYC, there was just so much going on, and I was taking it all in and painting that feeling. I think…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  The photographs in Gli Isolani (The Islanders) by Alys Tomlinson, inhabit a hinterland between fiction and reality. Over a period of two years, Tomlinson documented the traditional costumes and masks worn during festivals and celebrations on the islands of the Venetian lagoon, Sicily and Sardinia.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  What are we talking about, generally, when we refer to “the aesthetics of the digital”? Social media, of course—especially Instagram, that deep trough of contemporary visual culture—but also e-commerce, porn, photo manipulation and graphics programmes, video games, CGI and, to a lesser extent, virtual reality and augmented…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  BEYOND THE STREETS is pleased to announce Party at Megiddo, the LA solo debut from Oakland-based visual artist Gregory Rick. A  recipient of SFMOMA’s 2022 SECA Art Award, recent graduate of Stanford University’s MFA art practice program, and participant in BEYOND THE STREETS’ inaugural Post Graffiti exhibition,…