A few photos from the ‘Comics and Non-Sense’ Weekend Pop-Up with Trevor Andrew and Drew Toonz.
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Comics and Nonsense – Trevor ‘Trouble’ Andrew and Andrew ‘Drew Toonz’ Miller
Trouble & Drew’s “Comics & Nonsense”
Exhibit opens Aug 30th 6-10pm
Please RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com
Dj sets by @hateboy2 x @willshott
Exhibit runs Sat. Aug 31st – Sun. Sept 1st, 1- 6pm.
This exhibition celebrates the longstanding collaborative friendship and partnership of Trevor “Trouble” Andrew and Andrew “Drew Toonz” Miller.
Trevor and renowned comic artist, Drew Toons, came together creatively over their shared love of blending high and low fashion culture and art into uncategorizable new works that both comment on the world around them and make you laugh or cringe. Their fun is infectious, but don’t miss their eye for detail, world-building and the pure joy that comes from making art.
Works include the pairs co-authored original, full-length comic book “No Work City,” which chronicles the almost real-life adventures of Emo Cat & Trouble Andrew as they battle corniness in all forms — especially the form of the Corn Lord –, a whimsical and intricately detailed dioramic representation of the world as they see it, and many of Trouble & Drew’s hand-altered/ toys and vintage comics.
Trevor Andrew (b. 1979; Nova Scotia, Canada)
Trevor “Trouble” Andrew, aka Gucci Ghost, is a multi-disciplinary Artist. He is internationally known for his raw street aesthetic and pop art sensibility. Trevor’s recent work explores our relationship with consumer culture, bending the perception of what is “real” and what is luxury.
In 2013, Trevor began tagging the streets of Brooklyn, New York with a personalized vision of the iconic Gucci logo. He transformed everything around him to Gucci by repurposing discarded objects and clothing, extracting the power of the brand identity. This work quickly garnered a substantial online following, and led to an official collection for the iconic Milan based fashion house. As a result of Trevor’s collaborative work, the collection has become a major global success story that has helped bolster the brand.
“Life is Scary Sometimes”
Trevor ‘Trouble’ Andrew
24 x 24in
Edition of 111.
6 color Screenprint on Stonehenge 330 gsm white archival paper.
Print will be available opening night and online Saturday, Aug 31st at 10am Pacific Time (PT)
Brave New Views – Opening Night Los Angeles
Photos from the Opening Night of Brave New Views now on display at HVW8 Los Angeles.
Photos by Gia – more photos here.
NTS X HVW8 – Brave New Waves
The inaugural exhibit opens July 19th at HVW8 Los Angeles, featuring:
🗯 Ross Schwartzman, a.k.a Ross One’s installation exploring music consumption and identity via personal sound systems, comprising a wall of over 30 vintage boom boxes.
🗯 Charlie Ahearn‘s Doin’ Time In Times Square, a home movie “capturing the old capital of sleaze in all its pathetic glory”, filmed in part during the production of Ahearn’s classic 1983 hip hop film Wild Style.
🗯 LA filmmaker Calmatic and Steven Traylor‘s video and art installations, questioning the means of how we consume music, media, and technology – including their music video for Vince Staple’s FUN!, shot from the perspective of an interactive Google maps session.
The opening event will feature musical performances from Budgie & Battlecat as well as a DJ set from Ross One, recorded and streamed on NTS Radio platforms worldwide.
Produced with support from adidas Originals. Refreshments courtesy of Saintwoods.
RSVP below:
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib ‘Bandana’ Event and Exhibit.
Berlin Gallery Weekend Photos
Thank you to everyone that visited HVW8 Berlin for Gallery Weekend.
‘Selections’ runs through June 15th.
Photos by Mike Matias
Eric Elms ‘ViewSonic’ Opening Hollywood
Little Simz ‘GREY Area’ Installation and Performance at HVW8 Los Angeles
Photos by Jennifer Johnson of Little Simz ‘ GREY Area’ Installation and Live performance at HVW8 Gallery Los Angeles.
HVW8 at Berlin Gallery Weekend 2019
HVW8 Gallery and adidas Originals present:
SELECTIONS –
MARK GONZALES (FOWER PLOWER)
& ERIN D. GARCIA (GRAND PRIX)
Berlin Gallery Weekend 2019
Opening: Friday, April 26, 6-10 pm
Saturday and Sunday, April 27 and 28, 12 pm – 8 pm
Exhibition: April 27th – June 15th
For Gallery Weekend 2019, HVW8 Gallery Berlin presents a special exhibition of veteran artists Mark Gonzales and Erin D. Garcia. Selected works from the artists’ most recent series, namely Gonzales’s Fower Plower and Garcia’s Grand Prix, are shown for the first time together in Berlin. HVW8 Gallery also welcomes visitors to a salon-style retrospective of the HVW8 collection, including works by Jerry Hsu, Lisa Leone and Josep Maynou & Friends.
MARK GONZALES – Based in New York, skateboarder and artist Mark Gonzales first exhibited with HVW8 in 2013. In summer 2017, Gonzales debuted his first solo show Fower Plower at HVW8 Los Angeles, comprising a selection of paintings that investigate ideas of color theory, the humor and geometry of Paul Klee, the graphic/ non-graphic qualities of Donald Baechler, semiotics, theology—and, of course, classic floral themes.
The paintings are luminous and alive and crackle with movement—fittingly Gonzales is a dancer, in the tradition of Merce Cunningham or Trisha Brown, but on wheels. His teenage years in 1980s Los Angeles were spent traversing the streets which by proxy became his moving canvas. He earned a reputation as a pioneer of modern skateboarding—a master, albeit one not bound by flawlessness or precision, but the anarchy afforded only after achieving true mastery. It was as if he haphazardly broke the laws of nature, causing time and space to bend to him and leaving behind him a wake of influential agitation.
His art, like his poetry, is not separate from his skating. Gonzales’s canvases are filled with painterly technique honed over years of drawing and painting, but they also exhibit a shambolic quality; the works are equal parts precise and imprecise. This particular body is inspired by the disappointment he felt when his business partner “sold out” in the early 1990s, the faces are bursting with bitterness. They are painted-on fake smiles, cheerful in the face of misery and embarrassment. Years later, however, the harsh cynicism has soft- ened, and the power of the smiles seems to have cracked the regret. Indeed, Gonzales seems to be saying, flowers, grown in even the harshest of conditions, can have an immutable healing power.
Mark Gonzales
nature busting thru the city side walks, 2017
Acrylic on Canvas
16h x 12w in
40.64h x 30.48w cm
ERIN D. Top Recommended Australian Online Casinos – i-casinos.net. GARCIA – In 2013, Los Angeles based artist Erin D. Garcia showed his first of four exhibitions at HVW8 Los Angeles. This selection of paintings are from his most recent body of work Grand Prix which debuted at HVW8 Los Angeles Winter of 2018. This is the inaugural exhibition of Garcia’s work at HVW8 Berlin and the first time his paintings have been shown in Germany.
Upon first glance, Grand Prix tempts one to see it as a radical departure from Garcia’s previous works. The artist has thus far engaged in an exploration of deeply primary elements—the repetition and arrangement of shapes and colors —resisting any representational imagery. To date, Garcia’s work has been a joyful exercise in the most ethereal yet immediate aspects of human cognition. In Grand Prix we are confronted with some images that shock the imagination, and possibly give occasion to rescale our understanding of the artist’s earlier output.
These new iterations of objective drawings and text are alongside pieces that clearly continue the exploration of shape, color, and process that identifies Garcia’s work. In addition, assemblies of drawings structured together push all these ideas further. Contextually the new pieces read as an extension of previous studies—newly representational, yes—but in the unmistakable idiom developed by the artist over the past handful of years.
Garcia has moved past ‘process + limitation’ into full-blown methodology, a subtle but distinct operation that is a delight to witness. His stated aim of “creating compelling compositions using simple techniques and forms” has developed into an eye with which nearly anything can be seen.
The title of the collection itself, Grand Prix, plays on curious associations and arrives at a beautiful paradox. Intially conjuring motor sports racing — the apex of aggressive competition, opulence, and the guzzling of fossil fuels— the collection is actually populated with plants and flowers, rhythmic shapes, and colorful gradations. Grand Prix is certainly a meditation on the ‘grand prize’, but its images and ideas of victory are decidedly non-zero sum. The escape provided by these rose repetitions, geometric insinuations, and the freedom found in Garcia’s methodology all seem to suggest that a world is possible in which we all win.
Text by Jimmy Jolliff
Erin Garcia Still Life #1 c, 2018 Acrylic on canvas 48h x 36w in 121.92h x 91.44w cm
Gallery & media contact HVW8 Gallery Berlin, Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin
Jenny Ames
+49 (0)177–14 28 588 jenny@hvw8.com
Manuel Osterholt
+49 (0)172–76 72 718 manuel@hvw8.com
Supported by adidas Originals – Refreshments by Warsteiner
NTS X HVW8 present Shafiq Husayn
The first in a new series of events from NTS & HVW8 Gallery, founded in 2006 to support fine art and avant-garde design. If you can’t make it down to this one, stay tuned for more throughout 2019, bringing in exciting artists from the extended NTS family for intimate live performances in a gallery setting. A new podcast series, At the Gallery, will also be dropping later this month as part of the partnership – the first episode featuring Eric Elms.
NTS & HVW8 PRESENT:
✨ SHAFIQ HUSAYN
✨ SPECIAL GUESTS
✨ LINAFORNIA (DJ)
📅 THURSDAY 11TH APRIL
📍HVW8 GALLERY LOS ANGELES
‘Crew 2 Crew’ event at HVW8 Berlin
A few photos from the NTS x adidas Originals Crew 2 Crew event at HVW8 Berlin, highlighting the Berlin Underground scene.
Featured music :
💢 deadHYPE radio ft Lady Chann, DJ JNS & YAW
💢 Einhundert Showcase (Nico Adomako, JJAQ, Low.Vision, Marlon Beatt)
💢 Hoemies
💢 No Shade
💢 Room 4 Resistance feat. Bergsonist
💢 Shutdown feat. Crimen Passional, Goro, Merca Bae, Moesha 13
💢 TRADE feat. Brat Star & Juba
HVW8 BERLIN | JOSEP MAYNOU ‘LE LUCKY’
HVW8 BERLIN | JOSEP MAYNOU ‘LE LUCKY’
Opening: Saturday, February 16 7:00-10:00pm
Special Programming: February 17, 18, 22, 23
Exhibition Hours: February 20–March 30, 2019, Wednesday to Friday 2-7pm, Saturday 12-6pm
Free Admission
HVW8 Gallery Berlin is pleased to present LE LUCKY, a fictional and functioning bar created by Josep Maynou, opening Saturday, February 16th. As a celebration of love, friendship and the avant-garde, LE LUCKY is the Catalonian artist’s tribute to his thirteen years in Berlin, as well as a bittersweet goodbye to the city. The exhibition signifies a full circle for Maynou, who during his first year in Berlin worked as a bartender in Berlin’s Mitte neighborhood, nearby to HVW8 Berlin. Through the element of collaboration, the artist establishes the gallery as a site of fortuitous social interaction: he has invited fifty of his creative friends to contribute to the installation with performances, artwork and music, programmed throughout the show’s one-month duration. As captured by its title, the exhibition is symbolic of good fortune in social and occupational relations, initiating a chance for new beginnings and exchanges.
LE LUCKY
Bernhard Rappold
Ana Alenso
Pere Llobera
Elise Lammer
La Folie 8
Felipe Talo
Felix Leon Westner
Cécile di Giovanni
Victor Jaenada
Bernat Daviu
Isa Toledo
Caique Tizzi
Stephen Kent
Sol Calero
Dafna Maimon
Lorenzo Sandoval
Leah Dixon
Charles Benjamin
John Holten (BDP)
Eli Cortiñas
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos
Natália de Assis
Niels Trannois
Jakup Ferri
Ethan Hayes-Chute
Christopher Kline
Sophie Erlund
Kelly Tissot
Charles Benjamin
Ricardo Trigo
Hanne Lippard
Maximilian Kirmse
Nina Kurtela
Alejandro Lorente
Isabel Lewis
Joel Munné
Andrew Birk
Juan-Miguel Pozo
Coco Magnusson
Adriano Costa
Natasja Loutchko CAVE3000
Joan Saló
Blanca Miró Skoudy
Oliver Roura
Oozing Gloop
Aurora Sander
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor
Jenny Ames
Mika Manke
Josep Maynou
HVW8 Gallery presents: Jaybo Monk ‘Apophenia’
HVW8 Gallery Berlin presents
JAYBO MONK
‘APOPHENIA’
OPENING: DECEMBER 15, 6 – 10 PM
DEC 15 – 22, 2018
Apophenia (/æpou´fi:niə/) is the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things. The term (German: Apophänie) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia. He defined it as “unmotivated seeing of connections a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness”.
He described the early stages of delusional thought as self-referential, over-interpretations of actual sensory perceptions, as opposed to hallucinations.
Jaybo Monk reflects on the perception of random data in our virtual world and social media. The most common examples of Apophenia are people seeing faces in clouds or in the moon. If Apophenia is about drawing connections and conclusions from sources with no direct connection other than their indissoluble perceptual simultaneity, then maybe virtuality is our new reality. Weed seeds grow into plants that may be rich in THC and other cannabinoids. The idea of reality is more real than reality itself. Ideas are taken without being questioned and we are living in a world of binary choices only. We are dead in a dead time where not seeing anything intelligible is the new normal. We are damned to dream towards reality and not away from it.
The paintings and objects presented in Apophenia are constructed within the idea of time spent to keep everything in a present moment which is a moment of no reflexion in itself. Through layers in his paintings and associations in his objects and sculptures Jaybo Monk wants us to re-appreciate time where the past and the future are the foundations of reality – and not the virtual present controlled by our smart phones and other illnesses.
Drinks by Warsteiner
HVW8 GALLERY BERLIN – LINIENSTR 161, 10115 BERLIN
OPENING HOURS: WED-FR 2-7 PM, SAT 12-6 PM
Screening a film by Standing on the Corner.
Tomorrow Friday 11/9 in LA at HVW8 Art + Design Gallery ——- screening a film by Standing on the Corner.
Afroprojection #1: The Atmosphere Phased at 120* And Went Blank When The Universe Collapsed
Starting off at 7 w a short DJ set followed by a performance by the SOTC Art Ensemble. Film screens at 8.
Wu-Tang x Off-Safety Live Performance by RZA
Wu-Tang x Off-Safety Featuring Photographers – Eddie Otchere and Paul Chan October 25th, 2018 Featuring Performances by RZA, Young Dirty Bastard, Masta Killa
‘Uncategorized’ Opening Night Video
Video from opening night of the Chi Modu Exhibition ‘Uncategorized’, featuring an artist talk and event with Snoop Dogg.
Atiba Jefferson Creative Class
HVW8 Gallery and adidas Originals present :
Creative Class
Featuring Atiba Jefferson
An evening with Atiba Jefferson as he talks about his work and creative process for his ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ exhibition.
To be eligible to attend, please post an original photograph of yours and tag #atibacreativeclass and he will reach out if you’re selected.
All entries must be posted by Thursday, June 21st. The exhibit is located in Los Angeles, you must be in the area the weekend of June 23rd to attend if selected.
Creative Class is an ongoing series of artist talks and lectures fostering dialogue between established exhibiting artists and emerging artists and creatives.
Atiba Jefferson – Opening Night Photos
Thank-you to everyone that came out to the opening of Atiba Jefferson’s ‘Heart Shaped Box’.
Exhibition runs through July 15th. Please email inquires to info@hvw8.com
HVW8 GALLERY AT PLĀNA
5416 WILSHIRE BLVD., LOS ANGELES, CA 90036
GALLERY OPEN 1 – 6PM, THURSDAY – SUNDAY
Olimpia Zagnoli – Cuore di Panna
Olimpia Zagnoli – Cuore di Panna
OPENING MAY 25TH, 6 – 10PM
Music By Virgil Normal, Shirley Kurata and and DJ Pubes.
RSVP AT RSVP@HVW8.COM
661 N. Spaulding Ave, LA 90036
EXHIBITION RUNS MAY 25th – JULY 1st
Presented by adidas Originals
#adidasLosAngeles
About the Exhibit
Through a series of evocative still lifes, light installations and videos, the artist recalls her childhood memories lived in the era between the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s in a sunny Italian season, dazed from images from TV advertisements of ice cream and sodas. Italy was still unaware of the approaching dark years of Berlusconism, in which American magnetism, shaking booties and the cult of money would sabotage the cultural landscape that had characterized the country during the 70s. The artist remembers afternoons spent sitting on plastic chairs outside ice cream parlors, with Heather Parisi playing on the radio and her mother smoking cigarettes while reading Hemingway, blue popsicles and glow-in-dark bracelets. In the years when Barbie Totally Hair was replacing Sophia Loren, summers seemed endless and dashing bicycle races with a Walkman on one’s ears were the best cures for loneliness.
About Olimpia Zagnoli
Olimpia Zagnoli was born in Reggio Emilia on the leap day in 1984. As a child she moved to Milan, where she currently lives and works. Olimpia studied illustration at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Milan and graduated in 2007. The following year, after a period of living in New York, she began publishing her illustrations in Italian and international newspapers. Olimpia draws on Futurism, as much as on The Beatles. Her unique style comprises essential images, curvy shapes and saturated colors, inspired equally by art history and pop culture.
Throughout the years she has collaborated with The New York Times, Taschen, Vanity Fair, New Yorker and Rolling Stone, to name a few. She illustrated three children’s books: “The World Belongs To You”, “Mister Horizontal & Miss Vertical” and created her version of the masterpiece “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ”. Her bright and ironic images have acted as a framework for advertisement campaigns for Google, Sephora, Air France, Clinique and Miller. She has worked with leading fashion brands, among them Fendi, Prada, Hermes and Marella (Max Mara group).
Along with commissioned works, Olimpia Zagnoli conducts her personal artistic research where she builds a dialogue between illustration and different artistic media. In particular, she experimented with the relationship between drawing and tridimensionality, as well as video: she crafted a series of design objects, kinetic sculptures and directed music videos. Her work has been showcased in numerous group shows around Italy and Europe, and in solo shows: “Parco Zagnoli” at the Ninasagt gallery in Düsseldorf (2014), “Cinetica Zagnoli Elettrica” at 121+ in Milan (2015), “La Grande Estate” at Mutty gallery in Castiglione delle Stiviere (2016) and “How To Eat Spaghetti Like a Lady” at Antonio Colombo Gallery in Milan (2017).
HVW8 Gallery x adidas Originals
HVW8 Gallery and adidas Originals continue their long partnership in fostering emerging artists and creators from around the world. By supporting local artists and providing an inclusive environment for dialogue between artists from various cultures and mediums, the partnership provides an international platform for new and diverse artistic visions. Past artists include Kilo Kish, Brian Lotti, Inès Longevial, Gogy Esparza, Jey Perie, Lisa Leone, Mark Gonzales and Jean Jullien.
Four Conversations Gallery Dinner and Opening Night
DREEA x Souljoy x HVW8 Gallery present: MOUTHPIECE
DREEA x Souljoy x HVW8 Gallery present:
MOUTHPIECE
Round 2 is on! Same motivation.. only this time we teamed up with the likeminded and good people of HVW8 Gallery Berlin – it is Gallery weekend and we will have installations by (TBA) in the front room.
Because we need a channel to express our love for our culture in a FUBU kind of manner, we bring to you a journey through the fridge (this, you will get when you get there) the ice cold touch of Hip Hop, Bass & Favela Funk with a drop of 90ies Rnb – so yeah, without the fragility of the male ego, we proudly present:
DJs:
Special Guest DJ (TBC)
Souljoy fka GOFI (Bass Gang) – https://goo.gl/6uJLS2
DREEA (Berlin) – https://goo.gl/HKfmQ1
Bafouboy (KKM) – https://goo.gl/fFsNBG
8€ contribution for the DJs but if you have more you’re so welcome to pay more.
‘BEIRUT YOUTH’ Opening Night Photos
A few photos from opening night of ‘Beirut Youth’. Thank-you to everyone who attended.
More photos from opening night in Purple Magazine.
Community Service Art Book Fair
HVW8 Gallery will take part in this year’s ‘Community Service’ Art Book Fair.
February 23 – 24, 2018. 801 Mateo Street, 90021, in DTLA’s Art’s District
#communityservicelaabf
Sarah Bahbah ‘F*CK ME, F*CK YOU’ opening night photos
A few photos by Grant Spanier of the opening night of Sarah Bahbah‘s ‘F*CK ME, F*CK YOU’.
More photos on our Facebook page
Exhibition Runs until Jan. 21st.
A Pop-Up Exhibition by Sarah Bahbah
‘FUCK ME, FUCK YOU’
A Solo Exhibition by Sarah Bahbah
Opening Friday, Jan 12th, 7 – 10pm.
Please RSVP at sarahbahbahvip.splashthat.com
pizza
96″ x 45”
Birchwood Float
2017
Sarah Bahbah’s FIRST EVER solo exhibition in Los Angeles!
Known for her explicit transparent exploration of the internal voices of young females, Sarah Bahbah’s raw storytelling style, depicted as film stills, delve into themes of love, pain, indulgence, and coming of age with her particular brand of feminine ennui. Displayed in major art exhibitions around the world, admired by celebrities, celebrated in global publication, and with a cult-like following on Instagram, her social cause of women finding freedom in self-love is achieving worldwide reach and impact. Culminating in 2015’s, ‘Summer Without A Pool’ series through to 2017’s ‘This Is Not For You’ series, @sarahbahbah is now one of the most shared accounts on Instagram.
Works Featuring:
Daily Access: Saturday, Jan 13th – Sunday, Jan 21st (closed on Mondays)
Time: 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm daily
Location: HVW8 Gallery – 661 N Spaulding Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Live in Concert Jan. 4th 2018
Einhundret at HVW8 Berlin
Here are a few pics from Johannes Böttge, Shirin Siebert and Tsellot Melesse from the opening of Einhundert / Teenage Native exhibit ‘Another City Catalog’ at HVW8 Berlin.
More information on the Exhibition Here.
‘Creative Class’ Miami Art Week Video
Mark Gonzales in Galley Target’s 10th Anniversary Exhibit
Artwork from Mark Gonzales’ ‘Fower Plower’ will be featured in Gallery Target‘s 10th Anniversary exhibit in Tokyo. Curated by Ken Miller.
Low Key Pop Up
This week our friends from Switzerland, LowKey Studio, will be a hosting a series collaborations featuring photographers Paul Chan, Eddie Otchere and artists Blanda and Ottavio Missoni at HVW8 Los Angeles.