Check this out, New York and California: This year the Twin Cities is hosting Juxtapoz magazine’s annual national exhibition of street art, hot rod art, and pop-surrealist paintings, along with tattoos and graffiti. That’s right, it’s here with us in the heartland, coastal cred be damned. (Ask us how great the two-day opening gala was–especially the Melvins gig.) With works from seventy artists distributed between Uptown’s Soo Visual Arts Center and downtown’s OX-OP Gallery, you can consider the jaunt between the two spaces as a breather. Juxtapoz, the cutting-edge journal that first gave so-called lowbrow art serious consideration, fuels this gathering of fractured genius, calling in the complementary action of rock -n- roll to make it a full-on sensory event. SooVAC: 2640 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-871-2263; www.soovac.org; OX-OP: 1111 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-259-0085; www.ox-op.com
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