In The Land of Retinal Delights : The Juxtapoz Factor
June 22 - October 5, 2008 - Laguna Art Museum

The exhibition presents the work of 150 artists and posits that there has been a huge, but unacknowledged art movement taking place in this country for the last 40 years. Since 1994, this ground swelling of lowbrow, surrealistic, pop, figurative, narrative work has coalesced and found a voice in the pages of Juxtapoz magazine published in San Francisco. This rag has become the most widely read art magazine in the US. It is an influencing force on the aspiring artists of Generation Y and the Millennials, who are now enrolling in art schools in numbers never seen before.

This exhibition is organized by Laguna Art Museum and curated by Meg Linton, Director of the Ben Maltz Gallery and Public Programs at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with essays by the curator and Laguna Art Museum director Bolton Colburn.

Artists included (among other) : Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Chaz Bojorquez, Thomas Campbell, R. Crumb, Dalek, Ron English, Neck Face, Shepard Fairey, Phil Frost, Os Gemeos, Doze Green, Frank Kozik, Barry McGee, Takashi Murakami, Estevan Oriol, Gary Panter, Raymond Pettibon, Mark Ryden, Saber, Kenny Scharf, Gilbert Shelton, Jeff Soto, Swoon, Mark Dean Veca... 

Merci à Sketchypad pour les images.