Month: January 2022

Chris Sollars: Experimental Commentary

A soccer ball is kicked through San Francisco, Calif. A beard touches a surface. Trash on San Francisco’s streets is picked up, cleaned, then carefully placed right back where it once lay. 

Through these actions Chris Sollars expresses himself. He creates experimental art that leads to as much commentary as it creates.

“The street and the immediate space around me influences my ideas directly,” Sollars told Juxtapoz.

The Indianapolis, Indiana-born artist moved to Rhode Island where he received his BFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design. He later got his MFA in Sculpture from Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School. Now, San Francisco is his playground and he finds the vast differences between the coasts inspiring. 

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Chidibere Ibe: Bridging the Gap

Think back to the last time you were in a doctor’s office. Did you see any medical illustrations or anatomical diagrams? Were the figures shown white and male? Odds are, they were, as this is the norm embodied in health textbooks and on medical posters. These images are wholly outdated and do not offer anywhere near an accurate representation of the diverse population. Medical student Chidiebere Ibe has made it his goal to transform the white world of medical illustrations. 

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Max Hemphill: Capturing the Verge of Humanity

In Max Hemphill’s photography, humanity screams in subtle vibrancies that illustrate the details and rawness of his subjects. His captivating and sharp-edged photos of people and earthly endeavors encompass components of human nature that the human eye can fail to recognize in passing.

Unbounded depictions of his subjects create an element of freshness and tranquility in a current world condition where so much chaos and movement run our lives. It is as if we can feel the breath and warmth of the people we are looking at. These photographs are intimate, safe, and wildly meaningful through emotional displays of power, freedom, and authentic joy. 

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Charles de Vilmorin: The Flashy French Phenom

Fashion is constantly birthing fresh faces, even during a global pandemic. Charles de Vilmorin is one of the latest names added to the list of the who’s who in fashion. He was able to use the worldwide shutdown to be able to focus on creating and ended up simultaneously landing a position with a longtime player in the fashion industry. 

The fashion world was rocked by the pandemic just like most other fields. There’s been a lot of layoffs, illnesses, and death amongst other things. As we hope the dust has at least begun to settle, we shift our attention to designer and creative director Charles de Vilmorin, who’s worked to become one of the industry’s brightest stars. He is the grandson of a former botanist, and his father worked as a financial director of a fashion brand. De Vilmorin found a unique way to implement the botany background into his early work. 

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Doja Cat: The Carefree Superstar

She’s bold, she’s carefree and she’s downright talented! Her name is Amala Dlamini, but the world knows her as Doja Cat, the American rapper, singer, dancer, and songwriter who rose to fame in 2018 with her meme-driven novelty song, “Mooo!” In her self-produced music video, she became an internet sensation dressed in a cow print costume singing “Bitch, I’m a cow!” To say the least, She's an artist who creates music by her own rules, and as editor Juliana Pache best puts it, she makes “slappers based on nothing, in particular, created out of sheer spontaneity.”

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