Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine

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Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine is a magazine created by painter Robert Williams to both help define and celebrate the low brow art movement. It is published by Fausto Vitello's High Speed Productions, the same company who publishes Thrasher Skateboard magazine in San Francisco, California.

It reflects Williams' own sensibility -- a combination of California "Big Daddy" Ed Roth-style pop surrealism (identified by some as synonymous with low brow art and others as its own genre, as detailed in low brow art entry) and the serious figurative craftsmanship that is more likely to be found among illustrators than fine artists today.

Many famed illustrators and painters received their first serious recognition in Juxtapoz, including Mark Ryden.

In 2007, in an interview on Myartspace by Brian Sherwin, Kirsten Anderson, the owner of the Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, discussed the growth of Juxtapoz, which she thought had "morphed itself into a street art magazine."^[1]

C.R. Stecyk III, along with Williams is an executive editor.