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April 8, 2025
<p>The serpent has been around for a quite some time. It's biblical stature as the representation of the temptation of the devil to Eve in the Garden of Eden has often been part of Western thought, but the asp was a powerful symbol in ancient Egyptian culture, representing "divine authority of the pharaohs." The serpent has been a protector and mischievous creature, chaotic and a form of order. And this is where we find Montreal-born, LA-based sculpture artist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/daltmejd/?hl=en">David Altmejd,</a> on the border of chaos and order, restraint and rawness, realism and fantasy. We are in the underworld but also inverting the hierarchy of the world above it all in one.</p><p><br></p><p>I spoke with David on the occasion of his solo show, <a href="https://www.whitecube.com/gallery-exhibitions/david-altmejd-new-york-2025">The Serpent,</a> at White Cube Gallery in NYC, a show exploring a theme he had wanted to challenge himself for years and one that brought out a whole new direction and subconscious expression that he plans to explore in future shows and works. On a sunny April morning, I visited David's now almost-empty-but-in-the-process-of-new-ideas studio in Echo Park and found that this was just the time to get the story of where he is at in 2025. David digs himself into quite a personal world when he is making a show, and he told me he is often unprepared or able to speak of his work until it leaves his studio. So here we are. <br>On this episode of The Uniborw's Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we speak with David Altmejd about feline energy, biology, physical space, the beauty of a sculpture that is almost always in motion, and what The Serpent means to him. <br><a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/Radio-Juxtapoz"><strong>Subscribe to the Radio Juxtapoz podcast! </strong></a></p><p><strong>The Unibrow's Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by Juxtapoz editor, </strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/epricco">Evan Pricco</a><strong>. Episode 160 was recorded in Los Angeles on April 7, 2025.</strong></p><p><strong>This episode of Radio Juxtapoz is brought to you by the generous support of the </strong><a href="https://www.artemiziafoundation.org/"><strong>Artemizia Foundation</strong></a><strong>, a world class museum of contemporary, graffiti and street art in Bisbee, Arizona.</strong></p>
March 30, 2025
<p>Barcelona-born <a href="https://www.juxtapoz.com/search/noelia%20towers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Noelia Towers</a> has been painting a form deconstructing power structures for years now, but it seems like over the last few years her subject matter has received a heightened attention. And importance. Not like a typical activist painter, Noelia is placing herself right in the center of both a personal biography and a universal appeal for action against patriarchy and a prevailing mood across the world of a new form of masculine power structures. I wrote a few months back, "She plays with ideas of myth, both personal and universal, using imagery that creates a feeling of familiarity but abstracted to make you rethink your expectation of memory," and this holds up even more after our conversation. </p><p><br></p><p>On this episode of the Unibrow's <a href="https://www.juxtapoz.com/radio-juxtapoz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Radio Juxtapoz </a>podcast, Noelia talks to me about her move to Chicago, the traumas she carries with her in her practice today and how her recent show, <a href="https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/noelia-towers-as-account-of-preceding-events-de-boer-los-angeles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">An Account of Preceding Events</a> at de boer, Los Angeles came quickly and was one of her best experiences in the studio in years. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Unibrow's Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 159 was recorded in New York and Chicago on March 26, 2025.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>This episode of Radio Juxtapoz is brought to you by the generous support of the </strong><a href="https://www.artemiziafoundation.org/"><strong>Artemizia Foundation</strong></a><strong>, a world class museum of contemporary, graffiti and street art in Bisbee, Arizona.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
March 23, 2025
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/mark__whalen/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Mark Whalen</a> has been with us for almost 20 years, from the streets of Sydney, Australia to a new life of a sculpture studio in Los Angeles. Now it is time we are with him: after losing his home in the Altadena fire of January 2025, I got in touch with Mark about a visit to The Unibrow's Radio Juxtapoz, but also to catch up on an immersive, darkly humorous series of works he was creating. It felt like the right time. </p><p>In this conversation on the podcast, we find the inspiration behind the world Whalen has created, the stream of consciousness and deeply investigative construction of the sculptures, the materials, the fun, the pain, and how losing his home will inevitably transform the power of the work. </p><p><br /></p><p><strong></strong><a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/Radio-Juxtapoz" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Subscribe to the Radio Juxtapoz podcast! </strong></a><strong></strong></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>The Unibrow's Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 158 was recorded in Los Angeles on March 14, 2025. </strong></p><p><br /></p><p><strong>This episode of Radio Juxtapoz is brought to you by the generous support of the </strong><a href="https://www.artemiziafoundation.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Artemizia Foundation</strong></a><strong>, a world class museum of contemporary, graffiti and street art in Bisbee, Arizona.</strong></p>
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