Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  We are back to our regular A Portfolio department post Nuart Aberdeen, and today we look at Los Angeles painter, Jake Longstreth. We have seen Jake’s work in numerous fairs over the years, and his unique and beautiful depictions of nature and its border with suburbia and…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Available beginning Friday, June 14th at 8am PST on Hyper Editions, Finnish-born, Berlin-based artist Mikko Heino will drop a new print. The 3-color screeprint,  titled “Pushing Daisies,” will be one of the first prints by the new Hyper Editions imprint. 

Source Design You Trust  Tenjiku Tokubei by Toyokuni III in 1860. The Japanese term “kimo-kawaii” means “cute and ugly,” often describing anthropomorphic frogs and toads in art. Tenjiku Tokubei (1612-1692) inspired kabuki and literature, portraying him as a spell-caster transforming stones into giant toads. This influenced Kanwatei Onitake, creating Jiraiya, a ninja conjuring phantom frogs.…

Source Design You Trust  Awaken New Depths: Winner by Renee Capozzola (USA) To mark World Ocean Day 2024 on June 8, Dive Photo Guide announced the winners of its 11th annual photo competition. Themed “Awaken New Depths,” the contest had five categories, and winners were revealed at the UN World Oceans Day event in New…

Source Colossal   “STAR OF THE UNBORN” (2024), pencil and ink on found paper, 16 x 20 inches Neuromancer is one of the first science-fiction novels characterized as cyberpunk, a dystopic mix of rapidly advanced technologies and mass societal collapse. Written by William Gibson and published in 1984, the book has become a cult classic lauded…

Source Design You Trust  “The Undrinkable Can” is an art project by the collective QSTNMRK that critiques Coca-Cola’s environmental and health impacts. More: QSTNMRK, Instagram h/t: designboom The project features 1,500 permanently sealed cans of Coca-Cola, highlighting issues like plastic pollution and diabetes. Each can’s price increases sequentially, and profits from the sales and a…

Source Colossal   Photos by Sayumi. All images © Fumiya Watanabe, shared with permission “My work is like a diary, like a poem,” says Fumiya Watanabe, who translates daily experiences and emotions into poignant wooden sculptures. Based in Gifu, Japan, the artist studied wood carving during university, then later with a master Inami artisan. Honing a technical…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Rusha & Co, in collaboration with Juxtapoz and curators Evan Pricco and Kim Stephens, present I’d Love To See You, the first exhibition in a series to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the independently published art magazine. The exhibition features all works on paper, created in the spirit of Juxtapoz as a democratic meeting place of the arts for…