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134: Johanna Bath | Radio Juxtapoz

Radio JuxtapozMar 18, 2024

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133: Ben Wakeling | Radio Juxtapoz
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132: Christian Rex van Minnen | Radio Juxtapoz

132: Christian Rex van Minnen | Radio Juxtapoz

Christian Rex van Minnen and I decided to talk on Valentine's Day. He was about to be announced as the cover artist for the SPRING 2024 Juxtapoz Quarterly and, like two old friends should do, we wanted to have a talk on a day where sharing your feelings is a rite of passage. Over the years, the Santa Cruz-based painter and I have had a long history of, you guessed it, long talks, but we haven't spoken since the pandemic started and it felt like it was time for a catch up. His masterful paintings had recently graced the walls of Veta Galerie in Madrid, and there seemed to be a slight evolution of his visual language that I couldn't quite put my finger on. So, let's chat it out.


What we found on this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast is an artist not just in an evolution of his craft but in an evolution of his psyche, his philosophies, his selfhood. I've always felt like Christian was wise beyond his year, a thinker who takes those deeply meditative moments alone in the studio and used them to contemplate the history of painting, the history of the self and man's ability to understand it's own darkness. It's own weaknesses, it's strengths. We didn't talk much about painting on this day (although I got some stories about the gummies), but we did talk about life and how much we each have changed over the last 16 years. —Evan Pricco


The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 132 was recorded in Santa Cruz and Los Angeles on February 14, 2024 in Los Angeles. Follow us on ⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠⁠


Feb 15, 202452:29
131: Ozzie Juarez | Radio Juxtapoz
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130: Kemi Onabulé | Radio Juxtapoz
Jan 18, 202452:26
129: William Cobbing | Radio Juxtapoz

129: William Cobbing | Radio Juxtapoz

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

Jan 05, 202457:51
128: The Israel-Palestine Episode | Radio Juxtapoz

128: The Israel-Palestine Episode | Radio Juxtapoz

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


Dec 21, 202301:14:59
127: Saimaiyu Akesuk | Radio Juxtapoz

127: Saimaiyu Akesuk | Radio Juxtapoz

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


Dec 14, 202326:12
126: Erwin Wurm | Radio Juxtapoz
Nov 14, 202339:38
125: Tim Conlon | Radio Juxtapoz
Oct 31, 202301:08:17
124: David Shrigley | Radio Juxtapoz

124: David Shrigley | Radio Juxtapoz

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

Oct 26, 202338:50
123: Dada Khanyisa | Radio Juxtapoz

123: Dada Khanyisa | Radio Juxtapoz

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

Oct 24, 202349:20
122: Sara Birns | Radio Juxtapoz

122: Sara Birns | Radio Juxtapoz

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



Oct 18, 202355:52
121: Cato | Radio Juxtapoz

121: Cato | Radio Juxtapoz

The airbrush is a utilitarian tool. That is the beauty of it. It can be a fine art device, of course, as is the case with so many brilliant studio artists today, but it can also be an everyday tool, customizing cars, painting industrial objects, sign paintings, you name it. And for Cato, the London-based artist who is both in the fine arts and music, the airbrush is a tool to tell a story, a new sort of social realism, where art is both a mode for storytelling but also something deeply foundational.

In this conversation on the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we head to Peckham in London to sit down with Cato to talk about family support, the airbrush, music, animation, found photography and collaging this all to make his beautiful works together. And in this, there is life, and what he says his deep interest in faces.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 121 was recorded in October 2023 in London. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠⁠⁠⁠

Oct 10, 202346:00
120: April Bey | Radio Juxtapoz
Sep 26, 202356:08
119: Shadi Al-Atallah | Radio Juxtapoz

119: Shadi Al-Atallah | Radio Juxtapoz

Shadi Al-Atallah's newest solo show, Fistfight, begins with an excerpt from The Epic of Gilgamesh and seems apt to start right here: “huge arms gripped huge arms, foreheads crashed like wild bulls, the two men staggered, they pitched against houses, the doorposts trembled, the outer walls shook, they careened through the streets, they grappled each other, limbs intertwined, each huge body straining to break free from the other’s embrace. Finally, Gilgamesh threw the wild man and with his right knee pinned him to the ground. His anger left him. He turned away. The contest was over.”

Having met Shadi a few times in London over the last few years, there is a balance between rage, humor, anger, a grip, a pulse and passion their works. The struggles seen in Gilgamesh aren't unlike the struggles we see today, whether it be space, identity, movement or just plain confrontation. Shadi is working with the idea of controlled violence, and I get the sense that they are aware of what the world around them is presenting, the conflicts both internal and external, and finds that through making art, the confronations themselves are just a bit more controlled, more theatric, more epic. As Guts Gallery notes, "Throughout Fistfight, Al-Atallah explores the rigid distinction between the spaces where violence is permitted and the spaces in which it is not." 

This interests me as a writer and observer of art, and has always interested me in terms of Shadi's brilliant works on canvas here (and in the past, works on paper). They are controlling historical events, historical sentiments, the past we bring with us into the future. In Fistfight, the conflict feels rather internal, and the feelings individual, and yet there is a universality that is ever so present.


On this episode of Radio Juxtapoz, Doug Gillen speaks with Shadi on the subject of Fistfight, their evolotion in the works and the move from the Middle East to London. —Evan Pricco

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The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 119 was recorded in September 2023 in London. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠⁠⁠

Sep 20, 202346:40
118: Horacio Quiroz | Radio Juxtapoz

118: Horacio Quiroz | Radio Juxtapoz

"Everything in our universe has a dual manifestation," says Mexico City born Horacio Quiroz when you just take a gander at this bio. Well, here we go, you know this conversation is going to be a good one. As the artist opened his new solo show, Goddesses of Spoiled Lands, at Annka Kultys Gallery in London, duality of existence is definitely on the mind. In this insightful and revealing conversation, Radio Juxtapoz sat down with Quiroz to discuss the complexities of growing up queer in Mexico, how his work is a balance of almost supernatural explorations with the details of his homeland and the evolving relationship that humans have with nature. The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 118 was recorded in August 2023 in London. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠⁠⁠ https://www.juxtapoz.com/radio-juxtapoz/ https://www.horacioquiroz.com/

Aug 09, 202339:54
117: Ana Barriga | Radio Juxtapoz

117: Ana Barriga | Radio Juxtapoz

When you name your solo show Say Cheese, there are a lot of puns that can come from it. Ana Barriga did just that for her solo show at Carl Kostyál in London. Say Cheese makes you smile, makes you focus your attention on something that may stand the test of time really, but also puts you into another realm of posing and posturing. And for the Madrid-based painter, she is ready for this moment.


"My work involves instinct and attitude," she says, and as her show was opening in the British capital last weekend, we caught the painter in a moment of both fun and introspection. Her works are like still-life memories done through cartoons done through art history and then almost tasty in their near life-like embodiments of time once lived. On this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, Doug Gillen sits down with Barriga and captures a painter's painter at the height of her powers, in a moment where an international breakthrough is just beginning.

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The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 117 was recorded in August 2023 in London. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@radiojuxtapoz⁠⁠⁠

Aug 02, 202333:55
116: Jon Key | Radio Juxtapoz
Jul 25, 202358:31
115: Lucy McLauchlan | Radio Juxtapoz
Jul 17, 202353:07
114: Martyn Reed of Nuart Festival | Radio Juxtapoz
Jun 26, 202301:11:45
113: SWOON | Radio Juxtapoz
Jun 14, 202301:00:15
112: Martha Cooper, Jaune and Melissa Cucci Live at The Crystal Ship | Radio Juxtapoz
May 17, 202324:07
111: Julien de Casabianca | Radio Juxtapoz

111: Julien de Casabianca | Radio Juxtapoz

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 ⁠

Apr 24, 202355:59
110: Jaune | Radio Juxtapoz

110: Jaune | Radio Juxtapoz

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
Apr 15, 202347:05
109: Saj Issa | Radio Juxtapoz
Apr 09, 202349:46
108: Conor Harrington | Radio Juxtapoz

108: Conor Harrington | Radio Juxtapoz

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

Apr 03, 202355:29
107: Julian Pace | Radio Juxtapoz

107: Julian Pace | Radio Juxtapoz

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

Mar 19, 202301:00:34
106: Àsìkò | Radio Juxtapoz

106: Àsìkò | Radio Juxtapoz

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

Mar 13, 202301:17:11
105: Daniel Albanese | Radio Juxtapoz

105: Daniel Albanese | Radio Juxtapoz

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


Mar 01, 202346:52
104: Willehad Eilers | Radio Juxtapoz

104: Willehad Eilers | Radio Juxtapoz

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

Feb 13, 202356:58
103: Guts Gallery | Radio Juxtapoz

103: Guts Gallery | Radio Juxtapoz

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

Feb 06, 202353:59
102: Ian Strange | Radio Juxtapoz

102: Ian Strange | Radio Juxtapoz

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

Jan 09, 202358:49
101: Stipan Tadić | Radio Juxtapoz

101: Stipan Tadić | Radio Juxtapoz

“… painting Central Park is a challenge because there's so many paintings of it and everyone has their own personalized visual. But I thought if I just paint it in my own way, it's going to be unique.” —Stipan Tadić

This was the way we began our
Winter 2023 Quarterly, with a quote from Croatian-born, NYC-based painter, Stipan Tadić. The quote seemed quite apt, as he was talking about a confidence in seeing, to paint something everyone knows but not everyone has seen your own version of it. And that is what Stipan does. He paints NYC streets as if they have never been seen before, with a keen eye that blends comics, humor, nostalgia, mystery and good-old-fashioned painterly skill.

We sat down with Stipan as the Winter issue was dropping, speaking with him about that keen eye to see what others see but attempt to reimagine it in your own voice, the fun in his work, his upcoming shows in Croatia and NYC and his penchant for going out at night. The city is like a video game in Stipan's work, and we love watching him play the whole landscape.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 101 was recorded in NYC in November 2022. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz 

Dec 05, 202250:37
100: Laura June Kirsch | Radio Juxtapoz

100: Laura June Kirsch | Radio Juxtapoz

Yes, here we are, Radio Juxtapoz turns 100. And what a way to turn 100 then to look back at the golden age of... well, suspended adulthood? For this 100th episode, we sit down with Laura June Kirsch on the occasion of her new photography book, Romantic Lowlife Fantasies: Emerging Adults In The Age Of Hope, a look at the unique era that was the Obama years, and what many would see as both a carnal, fun, debaucherous  and really, we must say, a literal end to an era. These may be party photos, but there is something more unique going on in Kirsch's photos, a time when music, art, corporate events, food culture, beer culture, festivals and a young generation of business owners and creatives all sort of came together into one party. And the party went on for a bit.

Full disclosure, I helped edit this book with Laura, and wrote in the book's introduction something I truly still believe today:

"I worked with Laura on this book via Zoom and it seems almost like it had to be that way. Maybe there was a need to rekindle a sense of nostalgia, but I think in a moment of pause and absence of sociability, Laura could begin to articulate what this era was. She was there. She participated. There is no judgment in these photos because it was a time when there wasn’t much care about expectations and societal norms. That is why I love these photos, love her stories about each moment, like how she accidentally appears and disappears in each of them. I only dipped my toe in those scenes, but I understood a sense of momentum in the Age of Hope for our generation. This book is perhaps a chapter closing. There may be a new Roaring 20’s on the horizon but that is what makes this era so bizarrely and disastrously wonderful. It wasn’t born off of a period of time when we couldn’t interact, had our live music and bars and nightlife taken from us. Romantic Lowlife Fantasies was literally a moment when we all decided collectively that life didn’t need a schedule. These photos are fun, a word we don’t use often enough in our vernacular, and Laura captures what it was like to just have that fantastical sense of community and fucking fun."

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 100 was recorded in NYC in November 2022. Follow us on
@radiojuxtapoz //  https://www.romanticlowlifefantasies.com/

Nov 28, 202257:26
099: Love Welcomes x Migrate Art | Radio Juxtapoz

099: Love Welcomes x Migrate Art | Radio Juxtapoz

In celebration of the Moral Fibres collaboration between the charitable organizations Migrate Art and Love Welcomes, Radio Juxtapoz took a moment to speak on how they each have found a place in both the art world and philanthropic, activist spaces. As the two created a series of scarfs with the artists Chloe Early, Lakwena, Camille Walala and Sara Shamma, where each designed a "beautiful crepe de chine silk scarf, handmade by the incredible team of refugee women at Love Welcomes," we found a moment to highlight the project and learn more about what goes into each companies ethos.

Profits from the sale of every scarf will be split between Love Welcomes and Migrate Art, to support our work helping displaced communities. These scarves will launch next month (December 2022).

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 099 was recorded in London in November 2022 by Doug Gillen. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

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098: AXEL VOID | Radio Juxtapoz
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097: Mr. Doodle | Radio Juxtapoz
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096: HERA | Radio Juxtapoz

096: HERA | Radio Juxtapoz

For over a decade, the German artist HERA was one part of the successful street and fine art duo, HERAKUT. Their murals were seen across the world as part of a major generation of street artist who took muralism to new heights and interpretations. Her visual aesthetic, that of powerful women with a hybrid of animals and text made her and her partner, AKUT, international names in the movement.

Now boldly working just as HERA, her voice in street art is that of a veteran and of individuality. She is a trailblazer, and recently, we caught up with her at the Rise Up Residency in Margate, UK to see what her activism and vision looks like in 2022. As her tagline reads, "been busy doing street art for the past 2 decades…" but there is so much more just underneath the surface.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 096 was recorded in October 2022 in Margate, England. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz


Oct 10, 202201:01:29
095: Pat Perry | Radio Juxtapoz

095: Pat Perry | Radio Juxtapoz

For years, we have been fans of, and followed the muralist, painter, photography, illustrator and filmmaker Pat Perry. What started as a fascination with his On the Road style journal drawings, documented a bohemian life on the go around North America has now turned to an international view of building communities through art in places far and wide, including where this episode was recorded, in Ferizaj, Kosovo for Mural Fest Kosovo.

The Detroit-based artist is one of America's leading muralists, but when you dig deeper, his paintings are like contemporary Andrew Wyeth scenes of rural life and tender moments that often go overlooked. In this episode of Radio Juxtapoz, Doug Gillen speaks with Pat Perry as he completed his mural in Ferizaj and we hear about how the artist tried to embed himself where he paints, the bringing together of all his creative passions and taking of the life jacket of his career and jumping into the deep end of art. 

Pat was a participating artist for the On/Offline edition of Mural Fest Kosovo.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 095 was recorded in September 2022 in Ferizaj, Kosovo. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

Sep 07, 202252:06
094: Emma Stern | Radio Juxtapoz
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093: Sophie Crichton | Radio Juxtapoz

093: Sophie Crichton | Radio Juxtapoz

Every now and again, the Radio Juxtapoz podcast gets a chance to catch an emerging artist on the cusp of a pivotal moment in their career. What mean is literally in the gallery with the artist as their newest show is about to open. We love that, the energy and anxiety, the excitement and contemplation. In the instance of Toronto-born, Barcelona based Sophie Crichton, we found her at her solo show Bare Bones, opening at OMNI Gallery in London and her at the precipice of a major moment for her career.

Bare Bones is about abstraction, but it's also about the feelings we can't quite say in words as we go about this ever-changing landscape that we call daily life. We don't often have conversations with abstract painters on the podcast, but there is something so refreshing about conversations about mark-making, the challenges of abstraction and how an artist uprooted her life in Toronto for a completely new scene in Spain.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 093 was recorded on August 8, 2022 in London Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz


Aug 11, 202224:12
092: Glenn Lutz | Radio Juxtapoz

092: Glenn Lutz | Radio Juxtapoz

We are asking more questions these days, aren't we? As fractured as we all seem, as disjointed and uncertain the present and future may seem, we are beginning to have conversations about how we face ourselves, peers, family, society and our past. The pandemic reset many of our lives, but also put a new perspective on our identities and the existence of those around us. If this time didn't change you or cause you to reflect, you really weren't paying attention.

Glenn Lutz is a writer and conceptual artist whose new book, There’s Light: Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity and Mental Well-being, is a result of years of conversations with fine artist and creatives in the Black community who are actively engaged in examining their mental health in the 21st century. In conversations with the likes of the late Virgil Abloh, Mark Bradford, Rashid Johnson, Steve McQueen and more, Lutz has become the conduit to an overlooked conversation in not only our society but the art world as well.

In this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we speak to Lutz about putting this new book together, how open his subjects allowed themselves to be, growing up in LA, his own mental heath battles, how religion played a role in his life and how a move to Hawaii has settled his mind.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 092 was recorded on July 29, 2022 in LA, Oahu and Margate. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz


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091: Martin Whatson | Radio Juxtapoz
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090: Jacoba Niepoort | Radio Juxtapoz

090: Jacoba Niepoort | Radio Juxtapoz

Working in the public space creates an interesting dichotomy for an artist. It is both a highly personal relationship to an audience and the wall itself, but the brief moment in time in which a street artist or muralist is in the location while they paint can create a separation from the artwork. In many cases, you leave just as the town begins to embrace your art. For Danish painter, Jacoba Niepoort, an artist who literally creates some of the most intimate works in the public space we have ever seen, there is both a tenderness and strength in how she approaches a wall. And, there is something about materiality, the surfaces she works on, that is a unique.

Creating murals and works on paper, Jacoba is working within time with surfaces that can be both enduring and fragile. A wall could crumble or the weather could wear down the colors. Working on paper, the art may fade with time. We love that sort of balance, and so does Jacoba.

In this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we speak with Jacoba in the middle of painting a mural at Nuart Aberdeen, a wall that proved difficult with the changing weather patterns. She spoke to us about how the pandemic changed her practice, how she always wanted to change the world and pivoted to a new career and how she paints the bold poses of woman in unison.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 090 was recorded on June 8, 2022 in Aberdeen, Scotland for the Nuart Festival. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

Jun 15, 202259:52
089: Bony Ramirez | Radio Juxtapoz
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088: Aleah Chapin | Radio Juxtapoz

088: Aleah Chapin | Radio Juxtapoz

Living in the Pacific Northwest, Aleah Chapin's paintings feel like a reflection of the unique landscape. The way the blues mix with the greens, the way the waterways connect to the land; Seattle and the surrounding terrain... there is nothing like it on Earth. And that is the sort of balance, both figurative and abstract, that Chapin is painting.

On this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, Chapin talks about her desire to be a mirror to both her feelings and the times we live in, the type of artist with the desire to bring to the surface her inner self and feelings. Earlier in 2022, her solo show in Hong Kong at Flowers Gallery, the gallery noted that the "renowned (painter is knownO for her unflinching nude portraits of older women, relatives, and friends." Or, as Eric Fischl has put it, she is “the best and most disturbing painter of flesh alive today." High praise, and let's start here.

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 088 was recorded in early May 2022 in Seattle and Margate, England. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz



May 09, 202248:03
087: BEZT | Radio Juxtapoz

087: BEZT | Radio Juxtapoz

BEZT was part of the now legendary Etam Cru, the Polish mural and graffiti team that was part of a revolution in the ways that we looked at muralism and the potential of street art. He is the rare artist who can treat a 20m wall into a studio painting, with detail and intimacy that also changes the way we look at the streets we inhabit and the potential for something else.

On the occasion of Crystal Ship in Ostend, Belgium, BEZT sat down with Radio Juxtapoz' Doug Gillen to talk about a new change in the way he paints, incorporating nature into his urban works, and the idea of sampling imagery.

This interview was made possible thanks to The Crystal Ship Festival and All About Things. Portrait shot by Doug Gillen. 

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 087 was recorded in early April 2022 in Ostend, Belgium. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

Apr 25, 202257:57
086: Broken Fingaz | Radio Juxtapoz
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085: Maya Hayuk | Radio Juxtapoz

085: Maya Hayuk | Radio Juxtapoz

Accidents happen—on purpose. I’ve heard that phrase before and it feels reasonable, yet abstract enough to inform daily life. Ukrainian-American Maya Hayuk’s paintings are an elaborate stream of consciousness made in a valiant attempt to contain an accident, and in the process, feel absolute and free. For decades, she has channeled the folk traditions of outsider art with graffiti and street art. Her studio paintings and murals feel improvised, but there is a narrative thread that runs throughout: what is our existence if not chance, what is creativity if not a blurring of the lines between process and bursts of unchained energy?

ElevenEleven, or 11:11, is symbolic. It was also the name of her last solo show in San Francisco in the Fall of 2021. Some say it's an indication of cosmic enlightenment, others use the time to signify making a wish. The conclusion amongst numerologists and spiritualists is that it's a moment when we are our most open, or consciousness is most exposed. You may find time arbitrary, and most artists probably find time to be so when they are in the depths of creating. When we sat down with Maya Hayuk in Belgium this past spring during The Crystal Ship festival, we found her the rare artist who freely takes this openness out in public. Her murals and work as a Barnstormer transformed the American landscape into something of a dizzyingly abstract dream. It opened minds to the possibility of a new kind of muralism, something both folk and surreal. But this time, when we spoke with Maya, we spoke about Ukraine, about the importance of art as a symbol of peace, as a tool of understanding and protest, as an instrument of passion and belief, and enlightenment in a completely different way.

This interview was made possible thanks to The Crystal Ship Festival and All About Things. Music featured in the episode - Polyphony Project and DakhaBrakha

The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's
Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 085 was recorded in early April 2022 in Ostend, Belgium. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

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