JOE IURATO “EVERYTHING BUT THE WHOLE STORY”
This past week Station 16 Gallery in Montreal opened Everything but the Whole Story, a solo show featuring Joe Iurato. Based on photography, JoeIurato creates site-specific wooden cut-outs that reflect upon his personal experiences. The tiny black and white figures interact with their environment in often extravagant manners, from scaling a skyscraper, to dangling from a bridge, to […]
DREW MERRITT “REQUIEM”
“Requium” is a body of work with diverse thoughts and emotions expressed in each painting; meant to mirror life and it’s individualized complexities. This is also represented in pieces that feature the subject characterized more than once. Due to my discomfort with being categorized as “a pretty girl artist” most of the content is attractive […]
PICTURE BOOK: MATT WEBER
The following is an excerpt from the November, 2015 issue of Juxtapoz Magazine, on sale now. There is a long tradition of documenting urban renewal through painting, film and photography, recording the dynamics, as well as a special moment in a particular time. While Times Square now seems to be consumer central, it was once […]
Amozad, Aliha & Honargardi on a same page
Mohammad Reza Amouzad, born in 1975, has got his B.A. in painting and his M.A. in graphic design, also graduated from Calligraphy Association. Learning calligraphy, educating in painting and graphic design, experience of sculpting and research activities, has made his artwork different from artists of his generation, but his passion for calligraphy has made the […]
Aliha Gallery’s opening
Aliha Gallery’s opening ceremony has been held on 9th Oct. 2015. The Gallery’s initiative concept has been formed around the notion of interaction. With this notion, the Gallery’s priority is creating a coherent network of talented and creative artists from master to amateur spectrum. Therefore new talents along with the originality of masters artworks, have […]
PORTALS PROJECT OPENS GATEWAY FROM SF TO TEHRAN
San Francisco will soon be home to the latest gateway in the Portals Project, a public art project curated by Shared_Studios that uses design and technology to connect strangers and artists across the globe. So what exactly is a portal? A portal is a retrofitted shipping container painted gold and immersed with audio and visual […]
THE NEW WORLD TRANSPARENT SPECIMENS
SHINSEKAI’S ‘THE NEW WORLD TRANSPARENT SPECIMENS’ Shinsekai’s The New World Transparent Specimens are tiny, usually aquatic life forms like fish and seahorses that are put through a process of chemical replacement of the proteins and dyeing of the bones. The result is a transparent creature that glows in eerie vibrant colors. The creatures are […]
DALEAST IN BORÅS
Swedish town of Borås recently hosted another edition of their No Limit Borås street art festival. Along with other 10 international artist, Chinese-born DALeast was one of the participants, leaving his recognizable mark in the town’s university library. The artist spent a whole week working on 5 different sections of the 3 storey building, creating […]
THE GILDED AGE
This past weekend in Culver City, Thinkspace Gallery opened the great group/themed exhibition, The Gilded Age, featuring the works of Aaron Horkey, Esao Andrews, and Joao Ruas. We did an entire feature on the exhibition in our September 2015 issue, which you can read here, and on Saturday night, we headed to the opening to […]
PHOTOGRAPHING ABANDONED HISTORIES
Of all the intriguing locations that Abandoned America creator Matthew Christopher has photographed, the New Castle Elks Lodge holds numerous visual elements that make the images truly captivating. Built in 1916, the New Castle Elks Lodge was a luxurious setting for its members who were primarily part of vaudeville and theater groups. There was a […]