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TBT (Dr Dre 2)
Hassan Rahim

from Distillations, HVW8 Gallery, 2014

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Parra
Exterior of HVW8 Gallery

From Same Old Song, HVW8 Gallery, 2014

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Janette Beckman
Installation photo

From Punks, Rap and Gangs, HVW8 Gallery, 2014

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Jean André
Fuck You Tyler

2014

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Jean André
Marie 89

2014

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Justin R. Saunders
via the Wushipu Oil Painting Village in Xiamen, China.

From JJJJound Correspondence, HVW8 Gallery, 2013

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Parra
Betrayed

From Same Old Song, HVW8 Gallery, 2014

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Parra
Lunch Beers

From Same Old Song, HVW8 Gallery, 2014

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E.S.G., Missouri City, 2005
Peter Beste

From Houston Raps, HVW8 Gallery 2014

 

New article on HVW8 Gallery and Summer School from Nowness.com

Summer School: HVW8 Gallery

Art Lessons and Dance Sessions in the Californian Desert

From the brazen imagery of Amsterdam’s Parra to the internet-inspired visuals of the Kanye West-affiliated Canadian artist JJJJound, LA gallery HVW8 cultivates an international collision of pop culture and graphic design in a contemporary art setting. “We allow someone that might not be familiar with the artists we exhibit to see them in a lineage of El Lissitzky or Roy Lichtenstein, who to me are examples of fine graphic artists,” says HVW8 co-founder Tyler Gibney. This month the gallerist took psychedelic artists Erin D. Garcia, Teebs, Jean André and Alvaro “Freegums” Ilizarbe on a desert road trip for Summer School, an art and music weekender at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs featuring sun-kissed West Coast bands such as dance-punk duo De Lux. “I grew up with a Bauhaus education and I love the idea of artists teaching and exposing their craft,” says Gibney of the hands-on experience of Summer School’s workshops. Founded in 2011 by LA new music champions School Night and the Ace Hotel, the micro-festival’s inaugural line-up included cult mobile letterpress studio Movable Type, and Chris Johanson of the Mission School art movement. “I approach my drawings as a viewer, I want to understand why a choice is made and the reason behind it,” says Garcia, who took on collage class duties while Cali locals Teebs went cosmic with Japanese tie-dye alongside Ilizarbe’s infinity patterns, and Paris’s André showcased poster techniques. “I think there’s an elegance in a simple idea that’s communicated well.”