(27 Oct 2018) LEADIN:
A new exhibition in Los Angeles is celebrating the US cult of custom cars.
'Auto-Didactic: The Juxtapoz School' features art, fashion and vehicles that represent the custom culture of the hot rod era that began in Southern California in the 1960s.  
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A colourful car exhibition with a difference is turning heads at the world renowned Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
'Auto-Didactic: The Juxtapoz School' is intersecting cars and underground art.
The work of more than 50 artists accompanies the car display to create an eclectic display that examines the works of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.
The magazine was created in 1994 by a group of artists and collectors, including Robert Williams, C.R. Stecyk, Greg Escalante, and Eric Swenson, to define and celebrate urban alternative and underground contemporary art.
This exhibit looks at the impact of the art and culture magazine and the Southern Californian 'Kustom Kulture' phenomenon -  which is adapting cars, hot rods, surfboards, as well as urban and underground art.
It includes works, ranging from sculpture and paintings to instruments and illustrations, from key artists such as Von Dutch and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
C.R. Stecyk is the exhibition co-creator: "This exhibit is a compendium of art, be it sculpture, painting, automotive art, modified automobiles and kind of exhales the inner relationship of art culture and commentary between the two as propelled by motorized mechanized transport."
Joseph Harper, co-curator, art historian and Assistant Curator at Petersen Automotive Museum says the museum sees cars beyond their purpose and highlights them.
"Juxtapoz Magazine was founded in 1994 and it came out of an exhibit that happened here in Southern California called Kustom Kulture. Kustom Kulture is a movement that goes back to the 1960's where hot-rod culture sort of predominated and figures like Von Dutch or Ed "Big Daddy" Roth really became household names. Out of that exhibition many of the artists and people who organized it later started Juxtapoz magazine and we are now here 25 years after that founding along with the 25th anniversary of the Petersen Automotive Museum. We really wanted to explore where that connection has gone over the last quarter century," says Harper.
The exhibition highlights notable custom cars including, a 1932 Ford Roadster named "Prickly Heat" that was restored in 2001. It is owned by Robert Williams, one of the founders of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.
The car is widely considered the first definitive hot rod. Painted in shocking purple and chartreuse.
"The Orbitron" by "Big Daddy" Roth was created in 1964. This fiberglass car has the aesthetic of the 1960s with asymmetrical design and bubble top.
It was discovered in 2007 in Juarez, Mexico outside a bookstore. Stecyk says it went through extensive restoration.
This 1970 Kenford Truck is by Von Dutch, well known for his creative and abstract designs.
The truck which Dutch owned was crated by grafting a 1947 Kenworth cab to a 1956 Ford chassis. It was featured in the first issue of Juxtapoz as part of a feature article on him.
The 1959 Cadillac titled "The New and Improved Ultima Suprema Deluxe 2012" by Kenny Scharf is a show stopper.
It features pop culture icons, cartoon characters and futuristic scenes. It has creatures floating among space-age cultural symbols and outer worldly found objects, pop culture references and a retro-future timeline.
Sculptures include a detailed airbrushed Cadillac hood done with acrylic, paint, fiberglass and foam, and Ratfink the anti-establishment mouse,

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