JUXTAPOZ Magazine - Winter 2024

In this issue

Juxtapoz is excited to announce our WINTER 2024 Quarterly, the first of 4 special issues celebrating our 30th anniversary as an independently published art and culture magazine. The cover features an exclusive interview with legendary and influential painter, George Condo.

For the first of four 30th anniversary covers this year, we have George Condo to kick us off, ever a master, ever the evocative painter, and interview. When he tells us, “My perspective… is that there is no real meaningful linearity or chronology when it comes to art,” it feels like a familial mission statement. Art isn’t about a linear story or history; it’s broad and evolving, malleable and omnipresent. Shepard Fairey, Olivia Sterling, April Bey, Mike Lee, Jon Key, Lola Gil, and Sarah Lee, the artists we speak to on this anniversary, speak about art as this vital lifeblood of humanity, of time turning in on itself, of finding inspiration in the contemporary, classic, and future at all times in their process. We leave our comfort zones, push to connect, and challenge to find a community and commonality in the expressions of mark-making, even when there is conflict all around us. Art is a collective, permeable history, yours and ours.

The All Seeing Seneca

A Little Cosmic Horror and Candyland

8 mins

Mikiko Hara

\"...beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.\"

2 mins

Streets of San Francisco

Lauren D'Amato's Preservation of Culture

7 mins

Women Dressing Women

The Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute celebrates women designers

8 mins

Ever Velasquez – The Chingona of Chinatown

Today, Velasquez manages the gallery that’s become ground zero for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ exhibitions and artist representation in Los Angeles. We sat down for a punk rock lunch at Toi in West Hollywood and chatted about her strong influence in the Los Angeles art scene.

9 mins

A Guide for Quitting Your Job and Crossing Europe

Copenhagen, Paris, and Sweet Sweet Sarajevo

9 mins

Art and Science in Bloom

Laguna College of Art + Design Teams with UCI School of Medicine

2 mins

Wild Style 40

A Defining Film for a Defining Era

6 mins

George Condo - The Artificial Realist

In the comfort of his bedroom, New Hampshire-born artist George Condo contemplated his place and personal perspective on art criticism and history.

10+ mins

April Bey - A Trip To Atlantica

Drawing from her own experiences in Bahamian and American cultures, April Bey’s work as both an artist and educator critically explores themes of race, identity, supremacy, and colonialism.

10+ mins

Shepard Fairey - The Iconic Icon

As I enter Shepard Fairey’s Los Angeles studio on a sunny October afternoon, a considerably large painting of Andy Warhol sits on an easel, eyes focused and looming directly over the shoulder of Fairey as he adds watercolor touches to a series of works on paper.

10+ mins

Jon Key - The Foundation of Rediscovery

A thread runs through John Key’s practice and life, one that involves family (being a twin), art, design, and adventure.

10+ mins

Olivia Sterling - Rage Comedy

Olivia Sterling’s protagonists flail and prey, grind sausages, and mangle cakes, oozing pure angst, twisted into buoyant humor with juicy strokes.

10+ mins

Lola Gil - Through Her Looking Glass

It's not surprising that a very young Lola Gil spent unhurried hours among her grandmother's collection of small, humble figures and objects.

10+ mins

Sarah Lee - At Moonlight

When was the last time you sat in stillness? Turned off your phone? Closed your eyes and allowed your brain to neutralize and excavate an instinct deep inside, opening the senses to risk and exposure? Likely not recently.

10 mins

Mike Lee - The Privilege of Innocence

“Go west, young man!” An iconic phrase that drove America’s westward expansion—a call to citizens and immigrants alike, to embrace Manifest Destiny and seek new lands, prosperity, and freedom.

5 mins

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