Jamie O'Shea Jamie O'Shea

 Having turned Juxtapoz into a generation and genre-defining art magazine during his ten years' tenure as editor-in-chief, Jamie O'Shea is working independently these days as a Creative Director. O'Shea continues to bring high-end projects to fruition. He's working with his creative partner Darren Romanelli to re-brand classic bands like the Beatles and his pals ZZ Top, and brokering sales for street-credible but gallery-averse artists like KAWS.
Now living in Los Angeles, O'Shea has not entirely given up the less remunerative struggles of being an editor. Post-Juxtapoz, O'Shea has just signed on as editor of Spread ArtCulture, a new quarterly art-and-design magazine from New York, and is lining up his myriad allies to start an art magazine of his own, in which all those careers he's launched in the last decade will be rubbing shoulders with their "official" art-world counterparts.

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TOKYO///RIEKO SAKURAI’S INNER DEMONS…
phofa - 11/21/2007
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Tokyo-based painter RIEKO SAKURAI draws obvious inspiration from the likes of Margaret Keane, traditional Japanese Nihonga painting, and the ubiquitous Manga of her native Japan. The resulting oil paintings are an ominous hybrid of unsettling imagery that portrays the dark undercurrent of Japan’s sugary Pop Culture and offers a noir meditation on the omnipresent cult of “kawaii” (super-cute) imagery that so deeply pervades the island nation’s youth culture. On display now at Tokyo’s GALLERY UNSEAL, the new series shown here constitutes one of the best shows of the city’s fall gallery season. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »
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