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Through Landscapes Marred by Climate Disaster, Seonna Hong Mines ‘Past Lives’

Through Landscapes Marred by Climate Disaster, Seonna Hong Mines ‘Past Lives’With barren trees, colorful mounds, and diminutive figures, Hong’s paintings emphasize the ways the past appears in the present.

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Reconnecting with the Earth, Cyrah Dardas Collages Paintings with Handmade Pigments

Reconnecting with the Earth, Cyrah Dardas Collages Paintings with Handmade PigmentsDardas invokes ancient, ancestral ways of being in the world by consciously connecting to her natural surroundings.

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The Artist’s Process is the Subject in Lisa Yuskavage’s Masterful New Exhibition

The Artist's Process is the Subject in Lisa Yuskavage's Masterful New Exhibition
In a city that makes stars, across a landscape that seconds as a backlot for so many film studios, Lisa Yuskavage focuses her newest exhibition on the magic behind the finished product. This is an interesting if not endlessly fascinating body of work from an already influential and famed painter. Yuskavage seemed to take the occasion of her first show in LA in 3 decades to heart, it’s about sets and process, about the making of a universe just as much as the universe she is creating herself. It is a show about production, about a woman’s place in the history of production. It is about the artist and the aritst process while looking at something quite final, and David Zwirner’s spacious…
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Dada Khanyisa: this is for you

Dada Khanyisa: this is for you
In their first exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, Radio Juxtapoz and featured artist alum Dada Khanyisa presents a group of ‘sculptural paintings’ that look to their immediate community in Cape Town, popular culture, and Khanyisa’s extensive research into the social and political histories of South Africa, producing lively figurative assemblages that convey the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary life. Throughout their labour-intensive practice – incorporating hand carved wood, meticulously compiled sculptural elements and found objects, and painted backdrops borrowed from candid or historic photographic sources – Khanyisa expresses interpersonal dynamics through the lens of their social observations and lived experience.
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Mickalene Thomas Creates Design for DART Car’s Custom McLaren Racecar

Mickalene Thomas Creates Design for DART Car's Custom McLaren Racecar
We love a good custom car design here at Juxtapoz, and this one caught our eye this past week. DART Car, the Driven Artists Racing Team, debuted their team and unveiled the look of their race car designed by Summer 2024 cover artist, Mickalene Thomas, the inaugural commission being a custom wrap for the McLaren Artura GT4 racecar as well bespoke driving suits and hand-painted helmets. DART Car’s first race of the 2024 season is the SRO GT4 America at Sonoma Raceway from March 28-30, 2025.
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Camilla Engström: Wondrous Place @ Make Room Los Angeles

Camilla Engström: Wondrous Place @ Make Room Los Angeles
Camilla Engström’s paintings feel like a return—a quiet surrender to the rhythms of nature. Her dreamlike landscapes do not merely depict the land; they embody its movement, its warmth, its breathing stillness. Like Mary Oliver’s poetry, Engström’s work suggests a deep attunement to nature, where color, light, and form merge into something both intimate and expansive.