Viola Frey: Transitory Fragments, @ pt.2 Gallery, Oakland
pt.2 Gallery is honored to present Viola Frey: Transitory Fragments, a solo exhibition of work by Viola Frey (1933–2004), an artist whose multidisciplinary practice defied categorization and whose groundbreaking contributions to the art world continue to resonate. This exhibition, which coincides with the release of the book Viola Frey: Artist’s Mind/Studio/World, offers an exploration of Frey’s creative process, visual language, and transformative impact on the blurring of boundaries between fine art and craft.
The World Design Rankings According to the A Design Award
Wow, 2025. We are halfway to 2050! Instead of a year-end list, how about a year kick off list? The annual A’Design Awards compiles the yearly World Design Rankings, to start the year off with an overview of the countries where innovative and revolutionizing design stems from. China often finds its way on top, with the USA, Japan and Italy being really strong. This year’s list is consistent as it was last year!
Nike: Form Follows Motion
Regardless of your love of sport, Nike’s visual and design impact is engrained in global consciousness. The Swoosh, the Jordan Jumpman, the commercials, the athletes and the pop icons who wear Nike all define a part of modern life. Published in conjunction with the fall 2024 landmark exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, Nike: Form Follows Motion explores the design history of the brand, with unseen materials from the earliest years in the late 1960s, to drawings and prototypes, to the most contemporary designs with the likes of Virgil Abloh. At the heart of the catalog is how important design is for this particular brand, and as the…
Miles Johnston “Liminality” @ Harman Projects, NYC
Harman Projects is pleased to announce Liminality, the latest solo exhibition by Miles Johnston. Following his last exhibition over six years ago, this new body of work features drawings in graphite and ink as well as paintings in oil and watercolor, highlighting the artist’s eclectic range.
Jillian Mayer’s “Jerks I Know From the Internet”
Jillian Mayer is a versatile Miami artist making public artworks, film projects, and sculptural oddities with an inventive, serrated edge. Her latest experiment is an Object Shop, where creative tributes to jerks she’s met on the internet are awaiting your company, staring at you in shiny glass visage. We relate to Phill, described as, “Clever, can’t make a decision, and works all the time.” And then there’s Nacho, who is “Quitting smoking and is sucking candy all day. Now his teeth hurt.” Mayer calls them jerks but notes, “It is important in life to have friends, some are flat little weird glass ones.”
David Huffman x Open Editions Blanket
Is it basketball season? Yes it is. And we are just busy painting in the studio and aching to be wrapped in a warm, cozy blanket. Whether watching basketball at home or working in a cold art studio, trying to outrun winter’s fading daylight, this joyful blanket with artwork by Afro-Futurist artist David Huffman will up your game in either situation. Huffman is a Bay Area legend, oscillating between dimensions. This soft 100% cotton blanket features the painting Faciazzle in his signature basketball motif. Proceeds will support the iconic Berkeley Art Center, nestled in Wild Oak Park since 1967 — a great place to visit followed by a picnic on…
ZEPHYR: Graffiti Blackbook/Scrapbook 1978 And Beyond
The beautiful part of graffiti is that it’s such an ephemeral art form; most of its greatest works only lasted days, if not hours. But the archives are rich, and what remains are historic and essential. ZEPHYR, one of the most influential graff artists of NYC, kept a scrapbook that would become pivotal to the history of the graffiti, and weighing 7 pounds with 243 full-color pages, ZEPHYR: Graffiti Blackbook/Scrapbook 1978 and Beyond is an exact reproduction of the most essential years of artistic discovery. “I’m hopeful that there is content here—historical and/or sentimental,” ZEPHYR says. More importantly, it’s the real thing.
New Book: Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer
Internationally known for his type-driven messages of social justice, equality, and Black power, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is both a poet and printer. For Amos, language functions as action, and he has spent a career making words move. Currently operating the letterpress print shop Kennedy Prints! in Detroit, Letterform Archive has just released this vital and timely monograph, Citizen Printer, with more than 800 reproductions representing the breadth of Kennedy’s letterpress works. At a time of global social and political upheavals and conflicts, an artist dedicated to making art accessible and available to all isn’t just an essential practice but one of the important acts of resistance we have.
Chris Ware's Third and Final Sketchbook Series is Here with “Acme Novelty Datebook: Volume Three”
Our friends at Drawn & Quarterly just released a very special installment (the third and final) of past Juxtapoz cover artist Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Datebook Volume 3, spanning the years 2002-2023. Ware has long been one of the most celebrated and influential comic and storytellers of his time, and this is a brilliant collection to see the genesis of his ideas and character development.
Barry McGee, Cody Hudson and More Donate T-Shirt Designs for New Art Helps Heaps Campaign
Our friends at Art Helps Heaps have curated a new project of artist designed t-shirts with 100% of the net profits from the shirt sales will go directly to Children’s Medical Research Institute/Jeans for Genes. From Barry McGee to Cody Hudson, this is a great collection that goes to a greater and needed cause. Go get them now.
