Source Colossal   From crunched, single-use containers to thrifted boxes and repurposed clocks, Stéphanie Kilgast (previously) devises unique habitats for a wide range of creatures. Fungi takes root along the sides of a green bottle as a beetle crawls over the cap in “Weevil Wander,” for example, and a violet owl alights on the top of…

Source Colossal   For the past ten years, Moffat Takadiwa has collected discarded computer keyboards, toothbrushes, pens, and bottle caps among numerous other objects. He conceives of sweeping, abstract forms that from a distance emphasize curving, organic forms and pops of color. Up close, the pieces reveal deconstructed, everyday items bound into expansive tapestries. Based in…

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Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Accommodation, Attribution, Appreciation, Appropriation… am I complicit or complacent? If truth is beauty, and beauty is truth, then is a rose just a rose, or is it possibly more? A house is full of items that stay and those that change, but it is still resonant because…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  There was a moment there a few years back when realism was at a height, artists digging deep and finding the human form and the body needed to be as distinguished and clear as possible. Recently, someone asked me what I thought of painting post-pandemic, and I…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  A few years ago, when we spoke to the brilliant and cinematic photographer Tania Franco Klein in our Winter 2022 Quarterly, she told us about her work, “You’re actually feeling other things. You’re not actually lost. Maybe you’re feeling isolated, frustrated, anxious; that feeling comes from different places.…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Charlie Roberts has always teetered on a sort of surrealism that felt very much his own. And now, in Alien Visions, on view in Oslo, there is a warmth to Charlie’s surrealistic view of the figure and the natural world. They have a presence of being the…

Source Colossal   Rodrigo Oñate, a.k.a. Roco, marries the visual languages of graffiti, comics, and pop culture in his energetic paintings. Splitting his time between Chicago and Querétaro, Mexico, the artist works on walls and canvases, mish-mashing a flurry of characters along with simple patterns, squiggles, and the occasional surreal detail, like a gloved hand embedded…