Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  “It starts with trying… to make these sexual graphic cartoony sketches in my notebook, then abstracting that and making it more geometric, more abstract,” Loie Hollowell told Juxtapoz a few years ago. “I don’t know, I’m not an art historian, and I can’t give a long description…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  This isn’t his first rodeo with us, but wow, it’s always great to sit down with our friend Axel Void. He is both an elegant and renegade soul, a painter, muralist, a lynchpin in the Void Projects community of artists and co-op of ideas and practice. He…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Jocelyn Hobbie. Since the mid-90s, Hobbie has painted the female figure with a heightened naturalism and an enhanced degree of saturated color that reveals an uneasy relationship to realism and firmly roots…

Source artforum.com  The Proust effect is a phenomenon that draws its name from Swann’s Way, the first book of In Search of Lost Time. It describes the ability of our senses to access and activate memories long suppressed.

Source artforum.com  In 1946, Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) declared that conventional forms of representation had been exhausted. The following year, the artist founded Spatialism, a movement that dispensed with the traditional

Source Colossal   All images © Lisa Agnetun, shared with permission “They’re very much like people,” says Lisa Agnetun (previously) about her adorably spirited figures. “Except for the fact that high-fired ceramics has the ability to outlive us all. If you treat them respectfully, they will haunt you forever.” The Gothenburg, Sweden-based ceramicist crafts tiny apparitions…

Source Design You Trust  Maria Menshikova is an Art director based in LA, specializing in the film, advertising, and motion industry. She has a comprehensive experience across typography, illustration, and motion projects. Specialized examples range from large scale narrative driven 3D promo films to A24 film campaigns. Her deep knowledge of pop culture, design expertise,…

Source Design You Trust  Stefan Thelen, also known as Super A, is a Dutch artist who uses traditional painting techniques to deconstruct our well-known cartoon, fairy tale and pop culture characters. He created the series “Trapped” in which he “peels away” the surface of iconic personages revealing what’s really hiding inside of them. More: Stefan…