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131: Ozzie Juarez Jan 31, 2024

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Los Angeles is a big place. Sprawling is the description most give it, and that feels so apt once you spend a few days here. It's not a top to bottom type of city, but left to right, almost like a city laid out like a book. A city of narratives and chapters. And right now, there aren't many an artists who seem to be writing a tale quite like Ozzie Juarez. As a painter, curator and incubator, Juarez and his Tlaloc Studios is telling the modern story of LA to not only the rest of the world, but to itself. It's LA about LA; and it's unlike any story being told today.

On this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, Jux editor Evan Pricco sits down with Ozzie days after the opening of one of the most talked about shows of the LA season: his solo OXI-DIOS at Charlie James Gallery. He still feels the buzz, but will soon turn his attention back to his curatorial duties with TRADITIONS at Muzeo down the road in Orange County and taking part in what may be the show of the year, At the Edge of the Sun, opening at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery just in time for Frieze LA. This is where Ozzie is at. Whether its in the blue chip galleries of West LA, Tlaloc in South Central or his own solo show in Chinatown, he is the pulse of LA.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 131 was recorded on January 25, 2024 in Los Angeles. Follow us on ⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠

130: Kemi Onabulé Jan 18, 2024

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We are back in London for the 2nd episode of the 15th season of Radio Juxtapoz with a conversation with British painter, Kemi Onabulé. One of the things that stood out for us and why we wanted to speak with Kemi was this quote she said about her new show, All The Land Is Spoken For, on view now at Sim Smith. "There is so much to enjoy from a tree as a painter, you can paint its skeleton as if it were a body.” This is how 2024 begins.

One of the ideas of this show, and our conversation is the idea of how we all have a desire, or at least many of us, to own the place that we come from. Not just as a place where we live and grew up in, but in terms of ecological and cultural terms. Maybe we don't think about it often enough, but where we come from define us, both personally and how others perceive us; this is how we start to define ourselves and what we make of our life. But what Onabulé talks about is this idea of a game of aesthetics, how we interact with the viewer, what the viewer understands, and the power of a visual.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 130 was produced and recorded in January 2024 by Doug Gillen. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

129: William Cobbing Jan 05, 2024

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Welcome to a new season of Radio Juxtapoz. And why not kick off the 15th season with someone who not only pushes the boundaries of a medium but plays a bit on the absurdity that is modern life, contemporary art and the ways we experience both. William Cobbing explores both a physical and digital world with something quite antiquated: clay. He can be both a performance artist and a studio practitioner, playfully using his social media accounts to create interactive "plays" and "scenes" of his art in motion. It's playful, other-worldly, and probably exactly what we need.

In this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, Doug Gillen speaks with Cobbing in England at the end of 2023, just as the British Ceramics Biennial closed and just in time to have him kick off a new season.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 129 was produced and recorded in December by Doug Gillen. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

128: The Israel-Palestine Episode Dec 21, 2023

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We close out our 14th season and the 2023 with a special conversation with friends, about the story of the year, the impact it has had on each of their lives and how art can be a conduit to understanding, care and shared humanity.

"The Israel-Palestine Episode" features conversations with two Radio Juxtapoz alums, Israeli artist Know Hope, Palestinian-American artist Saj Issa, as well as Anthropologist and Curator, Dr. Rafael Schacter.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 128 was produced and recorded in November and December by Doug Gillen. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

127: Saimaiyu Akesuk Dec 14, 2023

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When you go to Miami each year, you are hoping to discover something new, something fresh, an artist that changes the way you look at the contemporary art landscape. For Radio Juxtapoz, we were able to go North while heading South, where we hosted a live panel conversation with Saimaiyu Akesuk, an Iqaluit born, Kinngait-based artist whose distinctive patterns and oil pastel animal drawings drew the eye of Canada Goose and the Canada Goose Art Collection.

Last week at the Canada Goose pop-up store in Miami's Design District, and in an evolution of its longstanding program, Canada Goose commissioned Saimaiyu to create three new print works, with proceeds from the sales of the works to benefit Inuit artists and communities across Canada. On the occasion,and on this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, Jux editor Evan Pricco spoke with Saimaiyu and Canada Goose Art Collection curator, Natalie MacNamara to discuss Saimaiyu's early influences in her community, her grandfather's lasting impression on her pastel drawings and the inspirations behind her birds and bears.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 127 was recorded on December 7, 2023 at the Canada Goose pop-up in Miami. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

126: Erwin Wurm Nov 14, 2023

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It's refreshing to talk to an artist who likes a bit of the absurd. And who bucked the trend of his home country and started making work that blended performance, fashion, sculpture, text, video, theater and interaction that turned him into an internationally acclaimed artist who is known to make fine art out of, well, the absurd moments of daily life. Vienna-based Erwin Wurm comes from a refreshingly old school way of a studio practice that utilizes ideas over function. We might know him for his "fat sculptures" or his one-minute sculptures, and you may know him for fashion shoots for the likes of Hermès, but really, we Wurm is in a league of his own in terms of what conceptual art can be.

On the occasion of his solo museum show, HOT, on view at SCAD MOA, Radio Juxtapoz sat down with Wurm from his home in Vienna to talk about his practice, his history in the Austrian art scene, the fun of one minute sculpture and how having a museum show across the world in Savannah is great opportunity for him to talk about where he plans to go in the future.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 126 was recorded in October 2023 in Los Angeles, Vienna and London. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

125: Tim Conlon Oct 31, 2023

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There are just certain artists who know their subject. For Tim Conlon, freight train graffiti is his muse, his subject, his love, his investigation. As a freight graffiti artist himself, Tim took that passion and understanding of the North American railroad system and turned into wonderfully constructed photoreal paintings of graff on trains as well as a series of train set works featuring graffiti pieces. His work is about not only a love of graffiti, but a story of movement, of communication and connection, friendship and the insight to a subculture of America that collect rail ephemera. It's a story of the industrial revolution, but also of the power of moving art.

On this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, Juxtapoz editor Evan Pricco speaks with Tim about his early days in Baltimore, how he got into painting the freights and the culture around painting trains. From taking part in a show at BEYOND THE STREETS in LA this past Fall, as well as big showcases at BTS in London and Shanghai earlier this year and working on Showtime's "Rolling Like Thunder" documentary on freight train graffiti with Roger Gastman, Tim's stories are part of the fabric of American art.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 125 was recorded in October 2023 in Los Angeles. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

124: David Shrigley Oct 26, 2023

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There doesn't seem to be anything more 1984 than taking what was one of the most popular selling books of the 21st century and printing an alternative text upon its ashes. There is that wonderful moment in Orwell's masterwork that reads "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

Okay, David Shrigley isn't some mastermind of double-think of mind control, but he is a conceptual artist. And this was his concept: after seeing a campaign gone viral where the Oxfam charity shop in Swansea had asked people to please stop bringing their copies of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" into the shop to resell, Shrigley decided to buy every copy he could of the novel with the purpose of re-printing over it as "1984." The project is called Pulped Fiction.

As we noted earlier this week, fragments of the original novels remain on the paper, with letters and sometimes whole words of Robert Langdon’s adventures appearing on the pages. The typeface was carefully chosen to mirror the type used for The Da Vinci Code’s first edition, while the book’s cover has been repurposed from the card backing and dustjackets of more than 1,250 copies of the hardback special edition.

On this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we sit down with David to discuss Pulped Fiction, the omnipresent shadow that 1984 continues to have on our world, the irony of erasing a text to reprint atop it, the beauty of charity shops and all things happening in the Shrigley world.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 124 was recorded on October 25, 2023 in Swansea and Los Angeles. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠⁠⁠⁠

123: Dada Khanyisa Oct 24, 2023

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Okay, okay, okay, Cape Town-based artist Dada Khanyisa isn't a Dadaist, so maybe the title here is misleading. But they are having a solo show currently at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and they are part of the roster of the great Stevenson gallery and they are making work that is both politically astute but also about this ideas of what they say is "going out culture, but also going in culture." So even if it's not Dadaism, it's Dada-ism.

On this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we sit down with the Cape Town-based artist about imagination versus reality and the trickiness of the balance, tolerance training and the continuing emerging career of one of the brightest stars of South African art today.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 123 was recorded in October 2023 in Margate and Cape Town. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠⁠⁠⁠

122: Sara Birns Oct 18, 2023

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Let's talk about morphing. Better yet, let's talk about the images and visions that we have that are in-between our reality, like when you snap to focus and there are blurred lines and a bit of a shaky floater in your eyeline. You might see some crazy shit. For Sara Birns, she is a painter of morphing visions and facial structures, things that are recognizably unrecognizable. "I wanted to capture, and realistically reveal the way I interpret the invisible forces that are just beyond the matter our human eyes pick up on," Birns told us a few years ago, and it seems like in a world turned upside down, she is seeing things they way they really are.

On this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we sit down with Birns in London during Frieze week as the Santa Cruz-based painter was taking a trip abroad. We speak about the value of an object, the way you can see in-between reality and those incredible morphinng faces she captures.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 122 was recorded in October 2023 in London. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠⁠⁠⁠

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