>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.

>Photos< The current show at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is “A Complicated Dominion: Nature & New Political Narratives.” Artists in the show are Tiffany Bozic, James Drake, Leiv Fagereng, Walton Ford and Tara Tucker.

Meg Shiffler, the curator & gallery director, describes the assembled works as “depicting an unnatural collision of culture and nature, demonstrating through the device of allegory our attempts to come to terms with contemporary responsibilities and attitudes toward the ever-evolving circumstances of our interdependent existence.”

Tiffany Bozic’s work “The Silent Dredge, 2007″ (a detail is shown above) depicts an unnaturally surreal assemblage of aquatic species from various ecologies entangled in a trolling net, which subtly illuminates the impact humankind has on it’s environment.

I first saw this work of Bozic’s at her exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences exhibit “From the Depths: Inspiring Art and Science,” and it shows strongly in this curated group show. The other works in the show work well together, which includes a beautiful forest sheep sculpture by Tara Tucker and video works by James Drake.

The show runs from June 12 - August 16, 2008.

A BYO brown bag discussion will take place at the gallery on Wednesday, July 23, 12 - 1 pm. Tiffany Bozic and Jack Dumbacher, Curator of Birds & Mammals at the California Academy of Sciences, will speak during this lunchtime conversation.

> Photos < Took a trip down to L.A. for Tiffany Bozic’s 3rd solo show at Kinsey/Desforges this past weekend. There were 2 larger pieces from her show last year at the California Academy of Sciences, but the rest of the work was new. As always, the paintings were amazing.

Thanks to fecalface.com and The World’s Best Ever for the linkage.

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.

Tiffany Bozic has a solo show entitled “Bedtime Stories” which opens in L.A. at Kinsey/Desforges on Sat, May 24 with a reception from 6-9pm, and continuing through June 21.

From the press release … “A careful observer of the natural world, Tiffany Bozic’s ability to capture and translate the graceful, complex and organic order of her surroundings—at times allegorically—remains one of the most salient aspects of her work. “Bedtime Stories represents a celebration of life’s hardships and achievements,” Bozic says. “I am fascinated with the beautiful intricacies and evolution of life [and] I have always been drawn towards finding some kind of common thread or language that binds us to and separates us from nature and each other.””

I’ve gotten a sneak peek of some of the paintings in the show, and the work is amazing … lots of bird paintings. Not to be missed.

my love for you is a stampede of horses has a nice interview with Tiffany.