>Photos< The opening reception for “In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor” was on Saturday, June 21st at the Laguna Art Museum. The exhibit features the work of over 150 artists whom the curators position as being part of an unrecognized art movement taking place in the U.S. for the past 40 years.

Barry Mcgee

Andrew Schoultz

The show was massively impressive, and similar in scale (if not larger) as The Beautiful Losers exhibit. It was pretty evident looking at the artwork placards that Nike head Mark Parker has amassed an impressive collection of this genre. Parker loaned around a dozen pieces to the show, including standout pieces by: Os Gemeos, Phil Frost, Mark Ryden, Marc Dean Veca, and Todd Schorr (whose 10′ x 12′ commissioned piece made it’s public debut at the opening).

Joe Sorren

Thomas Campbell

Bay Area artists represented in the exhibit included: Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Andrew Schoultz, Thomas Campbell, Tiffany Bozic and Silvia Ji. It was especially nice to see work from Margaret Kilgallen, as her name was not included in any of the print collateral for the show. Definitely worth the trip down to So. Cal to catch this exhibit.

Tiffany Bozic & Henry Darger

Os Gemeos

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June 22 - October 5, 2008. An exhibition catalog with an initial run of 1,000 copies should be available in September, and is currently available for pre-purchase from the museum.

The Laguna Beach Art Museum will be hosting an exhibition entitled ‘In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor‘ from June 22 - Oct 5, 2008.

In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor is an exhibition that 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.

The show is curated by Meg Linton. Mark Murphy has been chosen to design and produce the full-color catalogue along with Ginko Press featuring essays created by by the curator and Laguna Art Museum director Bolton Colburn.

Artists include: Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Tiffany Bozic, Dalek, Ron English, Neck Face, Shepard Fairey, Phil Frost, Os Gemeos, Doze Green, Jim Houser, Matt Leines, Barry McGee, Takashi Murakami, Mark Ryden, Andrew Schoultz, Joe Sorren, Jeff Soto, Swoon.

This show is going to be epic.