When Nathan Bell announced his latest solo show was to be called "Conversations with Inanimate Objects" and it would showcase a series of what he called "guidance paintings," I was hooked. I've known Nathan for years but mostly as a designer. So being able to speak to him in this context, inside the gallery These Days in downtown LA as the show was coming to a close, was a refreshing moment to have with someone you know and the other side of their brain. In this conversation of The Unibrow's Rad...
Jun 18, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 20Ep. 2
We kick off Season 20 of The Unibrow's Radio Juxtapoz podcast with a conversation with Mexican-American, Los Angeles-based painter, Salomón Huerta . What started as scheduling a conversation with Huerta around the opening of his solo show Stillness , which opened at Harper's in NYC in the spring, and he and I wanting to catch up after Huerta lost his home in Altadena in the fires that ravaged Southern California in January 2025 became another conversation about fires in LA County: just as we cli...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 20Ep. 1
Author and curator Dan Nadel is a hero of mine and a bit of a renaissance man. He was the publisher of the brilliant and influential PictureBox for decades and was a champion of much of what Juxtapoz was founded on but took it to a whole new level of intricate historical research and creating a voice of record for so many artists who time wasn't given them a needle to etch their name in the vinyl, so to speak. We are talking comic book legends, graphic novelists, outsider artists who might have ...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 19Ep. 12
"'Too Bad, So Sad, Maybe Next Birth' was a phrase my parents would say whenever something was out of my control and didn’t go exactly according to plan," Shyama Golden wrote on the subject of her new solo show of the same name for PM/AM in London. "It feels to me like a short phrase that embodies the entire human struggle, like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the hill." The Los Angeles-based painter has created a universe where reincarnation, generational trauma and suffering (and a sense of hum...
May 14, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 19Ep. 11
The first thing I said to Nellie Scott, Executive Director of the Corita Art Center in downtown Los Angeles that preserves and promotes Corita Kent’s art, teaching, and passion for social justice, was that I wish we didn't need to do this. I wish Corita Kent's work had already done its work, that the world was free of oppression, racism, inequality, chaos and fear. Maybe Nellie and I could just talk about love and a butterfly, the upcoming showing of Kent's work at Andrew Kreps and kaufmann repe...
May 08, 2025•53 min•Season 19Ep. 10
Adele Renault 's studio is an old converted Korean church in Los Angeles. It's a large, fascinating old building just down the road from some of the biggest gallery names in the world like Zwirner, but here, there is a quiet hum of the 10 freeway and a massive painting area that could almost be an old cinema in terms of scale. Here, the Belgian-born artist is far from the rural countryside she grew up in and now in the thick of the concrete landmass that is the sprawl of LA. And here, in these c...
Apr 30, 2025•48 min•Season 19Ep. 9
“No hierarchies are implied.” If you need to know anything about Katie Merz , start with that. The Brooklyn-born and bred artist has been playing on the streets both metaphorically and recently literally, for most of her life. Hierarchies would have got in the way if she let them. Art was all around, or perhaps better stated, it could be all around. For Merz, improvising was the goal, and the ever-evolving canvas that is her home borough gave her the imagination and the thoughtfulness to read an...
Apr 22, 2025•59 min•Season 19Ep. 8
The serpent has been around for a quite some time. It's biblical stature as the representation of the temptation of the devil to Eve in the Garden of Eden has often been part of Western thought, but the asp was a powerful symbol in ancient Egyptian culture, representing "divine authority of the pharaohs." The serpent has been a protector and mischievous creature, chaotic and a form of order. And this is where we find Montreal-born, LA-based sculpture artist David Altmejd, on the border of chaos ...
Apr 08, 2025•56 min•Season 19Ep. 7
Barcelona-born Noelia Towers has been painting a form deconstructing power structures for years now, but it seems like over the last few years her subject matter has received a heightened attention. And importance. Not like a typical activist painter, Noelia is placing herself right in the center of both a personal biography and a universal appeal for action against patriarchy and a prevailing mood across the world of a new form of masculine power structures. I wrote a few months back, "She play...
Mar 30, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 19Ep. 6
Mark Whalen has been with us for almost 20 years, from the streets of Sydney, Australia to a new life of a sculpture studio in Los Angeles. Now it is time we are with him: after losing his home in the Altadena fire of January 2025, I got in touch with Mark about a visit to The Unibrow's Radio Juxtapoz, but also to catch up on an immersive, darkly humorous series of works he was creating. It felt like the right time. In this conversation on the podcast, we find the inspiration behind the world Wh...
Mar 23, 2025•47 min•Season 19Ep. 5
Daniel Gibson is a painter of the California landscape, a visualizer of a certain kind of desert oasis dreamt of in a surreal dream as opposed to a place you have been. But to be honest, I wasn't aware of this fantastical world of desert sun, flora and fauna in Gibson's work; I just wanted it all to be real. I don't think that is important; what is important is that Gibson is capturing an essence of fantasy and freedom, a rural and desert basins, the Imperial Valley of Southeast California. This...
Mar 16, 2025•52 min•Season 19Ep. 4
There have been many iterations of the man we know as Nehemiah Cisneros , but right now, in the most moment, he is most himself. If you know Nehemiah, he is a thoughtful, insightful and evolving figure in art who is a filmmaker in a painters' body. We met him as AUGOR, the graffiti writer who took over Los Angles in the late aughts with billboards and walls that were just as influenced by comics, video games and low brow art as it was the history of lettering and monikers. He was fresh air in a ...
Mar 08, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 19Ep. 3
Hannah Lupton Reinhard 's paintings always have a consistency in intent, and yet an interpretation of intention seems to be flexible for some, perhaps even malleable. The theme of moving goal posts to secure your own meaning is rife in modern society, perhaps more so than ever as we all have the unique ability to erase our own history so easily. We all, at the touch of a button, can share and manipulate our opinions, often in an instant. I don't know if we, as a collective, were ready for this, ...
Feb 16, 2025•49 min•Season 19Ep. 2
It took Melbourne's Jeremy Geddes over 5 years to make his newest solo show, Periphery, for Thinkspace Projects , and it's been over a decade since he last had a show all together. He is a patient man, a man who loves the details, making personal and universal works that are about the human condition in relation to explorations of space, our soul and our relationship the technology all around us. He is an explorer of the smallest details, a painter who doesn't just have the technical skill of pa...
Jan 11, 2025•56 min•Season 19Ep. 1
It isn't often we invite a guest to come onto Radio Juxtapoz for a second time, but Umar Rashid is beyond an exception. He's a friend with something to talk about, a new show, yes, The Kingdom of the Two Californias. La Época del Totalitarismo Part 2 at BLUM in Los Angeles... but we are also talking two days after the American election and an artist dedicated to history has something to say. A lot to say. "This epoch is exhausting," Rashid says, as we explore his own explorations of history and ...
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 18Ep. 3
Something that will always exist, regardless of political landscapes and the changing of societal norms, is the need to honor space. Danielle Mckinney knows something about space, and waiting, and watching, and observing. As a photographer she practices these disciplines, and when she began to explore her desire to paint, she found something remarkably powerful: the space for the body to rest. Whether it was a fantasy or a dream, Mckinney's work is a powerful reminder that the art of protest c...
Nov 05, 2024•42 min•Season 18Ep. 2
San Francisco's Koak has always been a mystery to us. Yes, of course she is an internationally exhibited painter and the cover of the Juxtapoz Fall 2024 Quarterly in time with her solo show at Perrotin in Paris in September, but that there is something non-era-specific about the work she makes. Timeless get overused, but Koak makes otherworldly paintings that are personal, emotional, universal, environmental and narrative all in one. In this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz's new Unibrow series, ...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 18Ep. 1
Anthony Cudahy is at an interest time in his life when we spoke for the Radio Juxtapoz podast: he hadn't been in the studio for a bit. And who could blame him? He had concurrent solo shows open at Grimm and Hales in NYC, and his first museum show, Spinneret, had opened Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine earlier in the year and was about to open at the Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas the week of our conversation. A break, or at least taking it all in, seemed quite relatable. And on th...
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr•Season 17Ep. 8
Matt Bollinger's aim is both to define America but also define himself. Okay, okay, that seems like a wide net to throw, and it maybe it even seems simplistic, but there is his contemporary approach to social realistic, Ashcan School style that has made Bollinger one of the most interesting artists working today in painting, drawing and animation that speaks about and creates narratives of midwest America. His characters often show up in different bodies of work, different mediums, as we follow ...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 17Ep. 7
As a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, and a career as an artist, writer, abolitionist, Patrisse Cullors is one of the most influential figures in contemporary culture of the 21st century. What the Los Angeles-born Cullors has found in art is something quite fascinating in contrast to work as a activist: space to explore the limitations of language and the expansive nature of creating histories in physical form. I met Cullors at picnic table outside Charlie James Gallery in Los Ange...
Sep 01, 2024•50 min•Season 17Ep. 6
The first time we encountered the works of London-based Christian Quin Newell was at his stunning Earth altar solo show at Public Gallery. Newell works in an otherworldly realm, dreamscapes if you will (more on this in a second). His newest solo show, The Way, at the same London-based Public Gallery, created what we could say are cosmological paintings, a combination of fictional mysticism, medieval and futuristic at the same time. It's his universe, and we are walking into it. On this episode o...
Aug 26, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 17Ep. 5
When you open up the Fall 2024 Juxtapoz Quarterly, our colleague Kristin Farr brings up a caveat when looking (or hearing) about the works of Hannah Wilson. "Embedded in this interview is a required watchlist: Motion pictures that catalyze the arresting paintings of Hannah Wilson." What perhaps you need to know is that Wilson's works are dramatic in that they are the in-between moments of film, stills of the often-missed moments of repose and turmoil. Backs of heads, faces turned down, whispers,...
Aug 19, 2024•56 min•Season 17Ep. 4
We often said with Juxtapoz that the power of art is to make people feel engaged, feel good and feel ownership over both their community and the world-at-large. Art makes you feel alive, makes you thoughtfully engaged, whether the art challenges you or makes you just have a smile on your face. It's the beauty of it: art allows you to activate yourself. On the occasion of Ken Nwadiogbu taking part in the River Centre Development at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich, where he the London-based painter ...
Aug 11, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 17Ep. 3
We often ask ourselves how art can heal or make us better understand the world around us. It's the function of art, isn't it? We may not have a universal or agreed upon definition of what art is or means, but we have an understanding that art is an expression of creativity in response to both personal and communal experiences. It's complicated, but good art makes you feel and understand something deeper about the human experience. On the occasion of "Don’t Forget to Remember," a documentary film...
Aug 04, 2024•1 hr 38 min•Season 17Ep. 2
A new season of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast is here, and we start with something that feels quite relevant as we cross-over into the halfway mark of 2024. The concept is this: Truth is a Moving Target, and the artist and exhibition it pertains to is Southern California's Jaime Muñoz who just opened his first solo museum show at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles. When Jaime makes work, he is thinking about movement, how labor moves through our world, how we get from one place to another, ...
Jul 26, 2024•46 min•Season 17Ep. 1
Continuing our series of podcasts from the Crystal Ship festival in Ostend, Belgium, Radio Juxtapoz' Doug Gillen sat down with Spanish muralist and painter DULK to capture the essence of his practice that has long featured wild animals in a new urban context. The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 1412was recorded in Ostend in April 2024 during Crystal Ship. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz ...
Jun 04, 2024•56 min•Season 16Ep. 3
Ah, its nice to have a little color talk here on the podcast. Dublin, Irelands' ACHES is a theorist of color. He combines a multitude of ideas and styles into his work, whether graffiti, murals, painting, graphic design, all into an aesthetic that is deservedly his and one of the more unique in the street genre. When you see an ACHES, you know its him. Now on this occasion we aren't in Dublin or the UK to speak with the artist, but in Hong Kong during Basel Week 2024 and the HK Walls festival. I...
May 21, 2024•1 hr•Season 16Ep. 2
It was always as much as an intervention as it was a hotel. When Banksy opened the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem in Palestine in the West Bank in 2017, it was met by both amazement and a bit of shock. In what, in a way, like, "Wait, he opened an actual hotel in the West Bank? By the wall? How did he get that done?" And of course there was the simple: "I want to go. Can I go? Is it safe? I need to go." But there were also more vital questions and anwsers that the hotel offered: what is the histor...
May 13, 2024•56 min•Season 16Ep. 1
When Cindy Bernhard found the cats she found herself. That is the short summary of the story. During the pandemic, and years of trying to find her artistic voice, Chicago-based Bernhard painted a cat in her work and found that voice, that direction, that narrative, the character that was her but also something so universal. The cats aren't just lying about, they are sleekily wandering beautiful rooms, hiding behind beautiful objects, with candles and purple and the night as the backdrop. They ar...
May 08, 2024•49 min•Season 15Ep. 11
The thing about FAILE is that they are always trying to take you somewhere you feel like you have been but may have dreamt. Since coming into street art at the pivotal moment of the early 2000s and their various explorations into installation, muralism, nightlife and fine art, you recongnize the world of FAILE even though it's something completely fresh and new. I think of it as the imaginary world you always wanted but could never quite find. And at the moment they open their new solo show, Don...
May 02, 2024•57 min•Season 15Ep. 10
