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111: Julien de Casabianca Apr 24, 2023

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There are thousands of paintings that exist in the backrooms of museums, forgotten by time but still exquisite and tell the story of a period of time. Like street art, that transforms our public spaces and reimagines the experience of city or challenges our perceptions of where art can and should exist, and what is ownership, the practice of Julien de Casabianca is perfectly linked to art history and art in the streets. As the Crystal Ship notes, where this podcast was recorded, "Casabianca takes characters from historical paintings, yanks them out of context, and ‘glues’ them onto towering walls, giving them a whole new life and often also a different meaning."

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 111 was recorded in April in Ostende, Belgium during The Crystal Ship Festival . Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz ⁠

110: Jaune Apr 15, 2023

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They are below the eye-line, hidden from view, just above the curbs or sidewalks. Brussels based stencil-artist Jaune creates artwork that is miniature in scale but large in concept, a series of city and garbage workers stenciled with incredible detail and a metaphorical look at the things that hold our infrastructures together and the ways we ignore how a city works. There is the idea that street art aims to disrupt the typical power structures of city centers, where advertising is rife in public space and our free spaces are dictated, and curated, by corporate interests. Well, Jaune has looking below the surface, as well, and changing our vantage point and understanding of how art works. And, its quite fun. On this edition of Radio Juxtapoz, Doug Gillen catches up with Jaune at The Crystal Ship festival in conjunction with their 7th edition and Ruby Gallery pop-up show, 10 Years Jaune. In a way, the show is a celebration of the democratic nature of street art but also in his process. After stops at the Juxtapoz Clubhouse in years past, and street art festival and galleries around the world, Jaune is a decade years old, and the work is a vibrant as ever. The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 110 was recorded in April in Ostende, Belgium during The Crystal Ship Festival . Follow us on ⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz

109: Saj Issa Apr 09, 2023

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Palestinian-American artist Saj Issa was born in St Louis, studies at UCLA and is influenced and moved by the imagery of the Arab World. This is all important in understanding where she comes from in her ceramic works and paintings: she is showing you where she comes from and where she is going, and most importantly, the visuals that she has been embedded with her entire life. Her parents emigrated to the US in the 1980s from Palestine, settling in Missouri, literally coming from the center point of the world in the Middle East and ending in the center point of the US. Issa doesn't settle in any center, though. She is vividly re-imagining how the logos of the West are omnipresent in the East, where the texture and history of Arab imagery and ceramic patterns now often have a landscape surrounded by the logos of Nike, Coca-Cola, Shell, and more.

In this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we speak with Issa as she completes her MFA at UCLA and heads out into the contemporary art world with a vision and practice that is unique and exciting. She talks about her youth in St Louis, how she continues to find her voice in Los Angeles, and how she finds herself speaking with both the West and the East, simultaneously.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 109 was recorded in March in Los Angeles at UCLA's MFA art department. Follow us on ⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠

108: Conor Harrington Apr 03, 2023

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We can't believe Conor Harrington hasn't been on the Radio Juxtapoz podcast before. The 3x cover artist has been a symbol for our magazine for the last 15 years or so, an artist who learned his chops as a teenager on the streets as a graffiti writer, honed those skills in art school and then found a way to combine the two worlds into his fine art practice. For years, Conor has been painting these scenes of reenactors' playing out their great fantasy of pageantry and tradition. But Conor paints the conflict of this tragic play: what we reenact is a history that denies progress and acceptance, that the uniforms and adornments of our past stop us from living into the present and future.

On this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we sit down with Conor in Los Angeles just as his new solo show, When the Ship Goes Down, was about to open at CONTROL Gallery. It seemed like a ripe time to speak with the Irish-born, London-based artist about his unique history with the global rise of street art, how and where he found his aesthetic voice and the urgency he feels now to paint.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 108 was recorded on March 29, 2023 in Los Angeles. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

107: Julian Pace Mar 19, 2023

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It's a conversation about sports but also doesn't have to be. Nostalgia is a huge part about sports. So is myth. So is the idea of athletics being larger than life. For Julian Pace, the Seattle-born and now Los Angeles-based Italian-American painter (his name is not pronounced like the iconic gallery), the uniforms and the symbolism of athletics is at the heart of his newest solo show, Front and Back, on view at Simchowitz in LA. It's also about memory and the sharing of generational stories. It's about family and texture.

In this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, Evan Pricco sits down with Pace at his studio in downtown LA to talk about the rise of his career over the last 4 years, how a subconscious influence of Italian painting is seen in his work and how he uses familiar iconography to challenge our collective memory of them. On the eve of new solo show in Belgium at De Brock, Pace tells a story of his family, his journey both physically and mentally and how the open-ideas of Los Angeles have helped shape him.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 107 was recorded in March 2023 in Los Angeles. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

106: Àsìkò Mar 13, 2023

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The rules of fine art have finally, and for the better, been bended and broken and destroyed. What used to be just some white walls in a white cube has now become a bit of a evolution and revolution: film, digital art, tech, digital collage.. its all on the board, all here, and all here to stay.
In today's episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, our Doug Gillen sits down with London-based Nigerian visual artist, Àsìkò, who used digital art, photography and mixed media to construct a narrative that straddles between "fantasy and reality as a response to his experiences of identity, culture and heritage." On the eve of Rites of Passage, a group show at Britannia St Gagosian Gallery in London opening on the 16th of March of which Àsìkò will be in, we speak about the ever-evolving possibilities of fine art, identity and the evolution of what art can be.
The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 106 was recorded in March 2023 in London by Gillen at the MT Art Agency. Big thank you for letting us use the office! Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

105: Daniel Albanese Mar 01, 2023

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We love finding all the nuanced stories happening in and around the street art world. Not just the blockbuster shows, but the political and activist areas that often shape how we construct both the print publication and the podcast itself. So today, we present Daniel Albanese and his project, OUT IN THE STREETS.
Daniel “Dusty” Albanese is the New York City-based photographer and filmmaker behind the website TheDustyRebel. Shaped by his background in anthropology, he has built a worldwide following documenting the more marginal aspects of the urban landscape, as well as controversial artworks, and political protests. In 2017, he began production on his first feature length documentary and book OUT IN THE STREETS, which explores the global Queer Street Art movement. The project is about to see the light of day, and that is where we are now, on this episode of Radio Juxtapoz.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 105 was recorded in February 2023 in London and NYC. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

104: Willehad Eilers Feb 13, 2023

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When you enter the website of Willehad Eilers, aka Wayne Horse, you are greeted with a message that reads "80.000.000 Hooligans." What does it mean? Does it matter? Because whatever you see in the works of Wayne Horse is an entry point to a bizarro world that is a bit ghoulish and a full of debauchery. What started as a career in graffiti has evolved into highly-detailed, intense works that have both an element of play but also depictions of glorified hedonism. You know, the good stuff.
As a forthcoming solo show with Harlan Levey Projects in Brussels in April, Doug Gillen sits down with Mr. Horse to discuss the evolution of his work over the past few years, from cheeky experimentation to some of the most sought after paintings in the game.
The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 104 was recorded in February 2023 in London and the Netherlands. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

103: Guts Gallery Feb 06, 2023

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We are lucky at Juxtapoz that we get to talk the emerging art scene before most others are waving microphones and cameras in their faces. But with Guts Gallery, a London hub for all things emerging and flourishing hub for exhibitions and up-and-coming artists, there is perfect balance of all the things that make covering art crucial.
"Progress lies at the heart of Guts’ ethos," and in this two-part episode on the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we speak with Guts Gallery founder Ellie Pennick and one of the galleries exhibiting artists Elsa Rouy for a look at London's scene as we emerge into 2023, what it takes to run a gallery in one of the cultural capitals of the world and how to Rouy's universe is just expanding.
The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 103 was recorded in January 2023 in London. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

102: Ian Strange Jan 09, 2023

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Ian Strange isn't your traditional street artist, hell, he isn't your traditional installation artist. Architectural interventionist? Spatial performance artist? On his website, he notes, "His practice includes collaborative community-based projects, architectural interventions, and exhibitions resulting in photography, film, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, research, and documentary works." When looked at a whole, Strange is doing something more collective, more universal. He is talking about home, what it means to have a home and how home shapes the places we have seen and the people we become.
Over the course of this Radio Juxtapoz podcast, our first release of the new 2023 calendar year, Doug Gillen speaks with Strange about a wide-range of topics in regards to his practice, his recent installation in Ohio and that beautifully sublime and complex topic of home.
The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 102 was recorded in early January 2023. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

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