RISD’s Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibit 2014

Over 170 artists from the school's MFA programs are included in the dynamic show

by Samuel Emmet Over the weekend, scores of art students and gallery-goers descended on Providence’s Rhode Island Convention Center to see the 2014 Rhode Island School of Design’s (RISD) Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition. The Convention Center, a stone’s throw from RISD’s campus in burgeoning Downcity Providence, represents a particular era in ’90s civic architecture. But upon reaching the third-floor gallery space, visitors are greeted by …

Michael Jang’s Vintage Family Photos

Candid shots of the photographer's Chinese-American family in the '70s on show in LA

While SF-based photographer Michael Jang has taken famous black-and-white shots of Jimi Hendrix, Ronald Reagan and David Bowie, he’s become well-known for doing what people do everyday all over the world: taking photos of their family. Jang began documenting his relatives in the summer of 1973, in Pacifica, California, when he was a student at the California Institute of the Arts. Jang spent the summer …

Celebrating 20 Years of Juxtapoz

We speak with Editor in Chief Evan Pricco ahead of the publication's anniversary show, Art Truancy

Founded by artists and collectors back in 1994, Juxtapoz magazine has remained a significant publication and a true champion of the contemporary art world—and those who keep it spinning. Created as the antithesis of the stuffy, old-fashioned scene, the SF-based publication promoted (and continues to promote) artists, galleries and genres that were oftentimes overlooked, and the magazine’s staff has remained ever-vigilant; representing those they believe …