JUXTAPOZ — SUMMER 2018

This Summer 2018 issue moves with global color and identity-driven energy, anchored visually by OSGEMEOS’ The Long Way Home—a towering burst of spray paint, acrylic, and sequins that sets the tone for the whole magazine: dreamlike, folkloric, and unmistakably vibrant.

It opens with Studio Time in London, where Oli Epp balances work and life while shaping his ultra-slick, digitally glossed figurative world. The Report reflects on Jasper Johns, revisiting the coded coolness of his flags and symbols, while product reviews hit the Hublot x Shepard Fairey collab, Polaroid gear, and travel staples. Picture Book jumps into the frozen landscapes shot by Sarah Michelle Riisager, and design shifts to A. Savage of Parquet Courts, wide-awake and graphic. Fashion heads to the V&A for an intimate look at Frida Kahlo’s clothing and self-styling. Influences examines painter-patriot Fulton Wash.

Travel Insider lands in Valencia during Fallas—fire, puppets, sound, spectacle—followed by MATRIX 270 with Alicia McCarthy and Ruby Neri, and an On the Outside piece on Know Hope, blending conflict, poetry, and public space.

Features roll out heavy:
• Jen Mann on identity and self-construction.
• Lamar Peterson with his sharp, candy-bright surreal scenes.
• KOAK, exploring strength and vulnerability through crisp figurative language.
• Oli Epp, in a deeper dive, tightening his flat, robotic realism.
• Monica Kim Garza, celebrating bodies, care, and pleasure.
• René Magritte, re-examined through contemporary eyes.
• Serena Cole, dissecting beauty culture and art history through hybrid portraiture.
• Jeffrey Cheung, bringing queer community, movement, and joy.
• A profile on Alina Tsvor, photographing Chicago’s edges and architecture.

Events span Beyond the Streets, Whitney Museum highlights, Thinkspace, Left Field, and OMCA. Sieben writes “On Shaky Ground,” and Pop Life sweeps through Tokyo, Hong Kong, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Los Angeles. The issue closes with a Perspective on Rammellzee, racing for thunder—language, armor, mythology, and futurist graffiti philosophy.

And watching over the whole thing: OSGEMEOS, glowing like guardians on the opening spread.