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Ann Craven: Painted Time (2020-2024) @ Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Often regarded as a colorist, this exhibition repositions Ann Craven within a deeper language that moves beyond her traditional motifs–moons, flowers, and birds–to explore the mechanics of painting itself. It will highlight an often overlooked conceptual framework, where seriality, repetition, and shifts in scale function as both…
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Joe Coleman Curates a “Carnival”
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Artists have long been inspired by the themes of the carnival and the circus. They often identify with the craft, the courage, and the sometimes marginal existence of circus and carnival performers. The carnival is a unique social space where attitudes and behaviors that might be unacceptable…
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In Luminous Portraits, Florence Solis Invokes Feminine Power Amid Constraint
Source Colossal When touched, the hypersensitive makahiya plant folds its minuscule leaflets inward, protecting itself from any potential threat. Florence Solis draws on this defensive response in an ethereal collection of portraits. Beginning with digital collages that meld figures and delicate, organic ornaments, the Filipino-Canadian artist translates the imagined forms to the canvas. Shrouded in…
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Radio Juxtapoz, ep 161: No Hierarchies Are Implied with Katie Merz
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home “No hierarchies are implied.” If you need to know anything about Katie Merz, start with that. The Brooklyn-born and bred artist has been playing on the streets both metaphorically and recently literally, for most of her life. Hierarchies would have got in the way if she let…
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Henri Thiriet’s Striking Posters from the Belle Époque Era
Source Design You Trust Henri Thiriet (1873–1946) was a talented French artist celebrated for his striking Art Nouveau creations. Hailing from Épinal, he pursued his craft in Paris as a lithographer and gained prominence between 1890 and 1910 for designing eye-catching advertising posters for brands such as Omega and Dayton Cycles. Following World War I,…
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Spectacular Award-Winning Nature Photos From the Fine Art Photography Awards
Source Design You Trust 1st Place Winner: Flower Portraits by Tim Platt The Fine Art Photography Awards celebrate the stunning wonders of nature through the lenses of some of the world’s most gifted photographers. The collection “20 Award-Winning Nature Photos From the Fine Art Photography Awards” presents a captivating selection of images that merge artistic…
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Grief Embodies Infinite Colors (A Coroner’s Wife): Luján Pérez in Paris
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Galerie LJ presents Grief Embodies Infinite Colors (A Coroner’s Wife), the first solo exhibition in Paris by Spanish-American artist Luján Pérez (a Juxtapoz favorite and part of our 30th anniversary show last year), exploring the multifaceted nature of grief through a new body of works on wood…
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Reviving an Ancestral Hawaiian Tradition, Lehuauakea Reimagines Kapa in Bold Textile Works
Source Colossal “My favorite thing about kapa is that it is simultaneously ancestral, ancient, and contemporary,” says Lehuauakea (Kanaka Maoli), who recently received the Walker Youngbird Foundation grant for emerging Native American artists. Kapa, the Indigenous Hawaiian practice of clothmaking, uses the inner bark of the wauke, or paper mulberry tree, to create garments and…
