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Brock Fetch and A$AP Ferg

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ALWAYS STRIVE AND PROSPER
A PHOTO EXHIBITION BY BROCK FETCH AND A$AP FERG

presented by adidas skateboarding

Dec 12th, 6 – 10pm
at HVW8 Los Angeles

The exhibit features insightful photos by esteemed photographer Brock Fetch and highlights the close friendship and camaraderie of the A$AP Mob. In particular, the exhibit will pay tribute to A$AP Yams – who was the founder of the iconic group – with a large-scale painting by A$AP Ferg dedicated to the late artist.
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More photo’s from Opening Night 

“Boys” Zine Release

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“Boys” by Betül Uyar
Zine release and tattoo sessions (with Cheaptattoo & Victortattoo)
Release event: Thursday, November 19th 2015, 3 – 11pm

Betül Uyar aka Tue La releases her first photo zine ‘BOYS’ on November 19th, 2015 at HVW8 Gallery Berlin. She was born and raised in Berlin Kreuzberg which you can identify in most of her photos. The cover of ‘BOYS’ is showing her first ever shot of the series, taken some time ago in the backyard where she grew up – at Kottbusser Tor.

For this publication TueLa has selected 26 analog taken images from a huge amount of photos she has collected over the years. The ‘BOYS’ zine is limited to 100 copies and will be available at the release event. A few photos will be on display in the gallery.

SUMMER SCHOOL at the ACE

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SUMMER SCHOOL

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC UPON RSVP – PALM SPRINGS

Get your three-ring binders ready: our fifth annual Summer School retreat is upon us. Free, open-to-the-public workshops during the day, with bands and DJs taking us well into the night. Best of all: no principals.

Art workshops Include:
Sun Print Workshop with Photographer Mike Selsky
Collage-Logo Kitchen Workshop with Designer Trevor Tarczynski
Printmaking & Block Printing Workshop with Kristofferson San Pablo
Feathers Workshop with Nathan Bell
Curated by Tyler Gibney (HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, LA) 

Live Music by:
Jacuzzi Boys
Phantoms

DJ Sets by:
Chris Douridas (of KCRW)
Kodak to Graph
E.B. Sollis
Soraya
Masha
Plus secret special guests

Staying with us for the retreat? Use the code TEACHERSPET when booking for ten percent off room rates.

View last year’s Summer School feature on Nowness HERE

Brian Lotti ‘Echo Park’

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BRIAN LOTTI
ECHO PARK
June 19th – July 19th, 2015
Opens Friday, June 19th, 7 pm at HVW8 Los Angeles.

**Exhibition now extended to August 2nd

Please email info@hvw8.com for inquiries

Gallery Weekend Berlin

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Gallery Weekend at HVW8 Berlin
May 1 – 3rd

Please Join us at HVW8 Berlin as we celebrate Gallery Weekend, marking 7 months of the HVW8 Gallery in Berlin with art, music and food.

HVW8 Berlin opened in Oct of 2014 and since had exhibitions and events featuring international artists and photographers such as Jean André, Atiba Jefferson, Rein Vollegna, Julie Opperman, Ed Templeton, Rich Jacobs, Sergej Vutuc, Andrew Schoultz, Philippine Chaumont to name a few. HVW8 Berlin has also collaborated with local Berlin print houses and publications Draw-A-Line and Just Breathe (JB. Magazine) to showcase artists and work.

In this spirit we invite you to join HVW8 Gallery this weekend for an open house of art, music and food.

Please email – mailto:infoberlin@hvw8.com for inquiries.

Original artwork and prints from previous exhibitions will be on display and for sale, as well as new artwork by JB. fellows Stefan Marx, Tim Head and Remed.

Opening hours:
Friday, May 1 — 3 to 6 pm
Saturday, May 2 — 3 to 8 pm
Sunday, May 3 — 3 to 8 pm

On Saturday, May 2:
Music by Isis Salam and special guests
Fresh Pizza by Tiny Tim (from Weboogie Berlin)

With support from San Miguel and adidas.

HVW8 Berlin, Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin, Germany

Atiba Jefferson: Lonely Wanderer – HVW8 Opening Hong Kong

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WOAW and HVW8 Present –

Lonely Wanderer
Atiba Jefferson
with HVW8 Gallery pop-up

Monday, March 16th
6:30 – 9:30pm

WOAW store – 11 Gough Street, Sheung Wan, HK
RSVP : info@woawstore.com

 

Atiba Jefferson: Lonely Wanderer

Skate photography can be limited by its environment: incandescent street lights, pedestrians, and handrails among other urban barriers. This particular craft compensated for these obstacles and maximized action and consequently took the form of fisheye perspective, oblique ground angles, and wide panoramas. Contemporary practice has become so perfected that street images have attained a studio finish of painstakingly perfected lighting and dramatically staged composition. Atiba Jefferson, beginning as a self-taught hobbyist photographer from small town Colorado, entered the field at this pivotal moment becoming a major influencer in this aestheticization of digital skateboard photography.

Andrew Reynolds suspended in mid-execution of his Frontside Flip in Vancouver surrounded by an innumerable wall of ragged spectators is frozen at the apex frame, decisively timed and impossibly composed. This image has since compounded Reynold’s mythologization, and in turn, lives in the collective experience of what it feels like to watch someone “land it.” It’s also a reminder that there’s still an instinctual value and awe with using photography as a way of preserving an ephemeral, and for a lot of viewers, culturally monumental moment. Atiba has since photographed an impressive range of individuals of athletes and musicians who have attained a status of iconicity: Kobe, Animal Collective, Michael Jordan, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Tony Hawk, Tyler the Creator, Future Islands, RZA, Derrick Rose, Run the Jewels, Battles, 2 Chainz, Mark Gonzales, and so on.

What is more baffling is how someone arrives at the opportunity to photograph these people from such disparate industries; for Atiba, these occasions often occur out of chance rather than will. A backstage “hey” activates a network of social dominoes that eventually results in the moment when Explosions in the Sky’s Munaf Rayani holds a guitar ritualistically to the crowd, irradiated by beams of light and covered in a cosmos of photographic grain, in a way that speaks to the shimmering/shattering gliss of the band’s music. Commercial or recreational, each image demonstrates the skill needed to render the particular affect of that instance and the attention necessary to convey the something of an innate quality of a person’s identity.

Atiba derives his practice from his subject. Panda Bear’s Lonely Wanderer, with its cascading keys and mantric vocals repeats, “If you…Look back…Would you…Look back…What have you done…Have you done…Was it…Was it Worthwhile.” Similarly, Lonely Wanderer can be taken as a persistent, reflective, and fragmentary self-interrogation of achievement as communicated through the people that Atiba meanders around.

Atiba is a photographer living and working in Los Angeles. He has served on the editorial staff for Transworld and is one of the founders of The Skateboard Mag. He shoot campaigns for Supreme, adidas, Panasonic and the LA Lakers. He plays keyboards in a band called The Goats & The Occasional Others and co-runs a bar in LA. Lonely Wanderer is his third exhibition at HVW8. He has previously shown at HVW8 LA and HVW8 Berlin.

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A Night with REIN VOLLENGA

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HVW8 BERLIN presents
A Night with REIN VOLLENGA

At HVW8 BERLIN, Rein Vollenga will present a series of limited edition collaboration T-shirts, playing with incorporating images of his work into wearable commercial objects. Alongside the release of this collaboration, Rein will present a selection of his wearables which will be on display at HVW8 Berlin until December 10th. Each shirt will retail for 35 EUR, available only at HVW8 Berlin.

Friday, November 21st 2014
7pm-10pm
Linienstraße 161
Berlin Mitte 10115

About Rein
Born 1979 in Geldrop, The Netherlands, Vollenga is a Dutch sculptor living and working in Berlin within the parallel universes of fashion and art. His work has been shown at Le Louvre, Paris, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Kunsthall Oslo, Museums Quartier, Vienna as well as various smaller galleries amongs other places. His wearable sculptures have appeared on catwalks in London and Paris, in the collections of designers KTZ and Mugler as well as the Arnhem Fashion Bi-annual and as special commissions for music and dance performers Lady Gaga, Hercules & Love Affair, K-pop group 2NE1, choreographer Damien Jalet, and many more. The pieces have also been featured in magazines Vogue Italia, Dazed, i-D, Interview, Purple, Frieze magazine (d/e edition).

‘Mon Amour’ Book Launch at HVW8 Berlin

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MON AMOUR is the 3rd and final book of the Ladies Collection, after JE T’ADORE and ENCORE.

The aim of the book is to collect the many faces of femininity and lady-ness as a tribute to womankind. With the acumen of a graphic designer and the passion of a 70’s erotic filmmaker, Jean André handles his women with curiosity, reverence and intuition.

André’s oeuvre combines mixed international pop culture with personal childhood references and swirls them into his work, using the female form as a sort of icing on the cake. The artist traces the roles of women from cultural icons to sexualzed bodies to intimate bodies, using his love of women as a lens to make his already private drawings more sensitive. “I make drawings of women for women, I don’t do this to turn boys on.” The meat of his work is contained within the active space of performance between muse and drawer.

All three books in the Ladies Collection are available for purchase at Colette Paris, www.Club75.fr and HVW8 Gallery. Published by Ed Banger, 50 pages black print

Jean André (b. 1986) describes his drawings and paintings as “gentleman art” focused and inspired by the beauty of women. His work as a graphic designer in Montmartre for Ed Banger is just one outlet, while his other work channels themes of the female form in charming paintings. At once minimalist and realistic, he tries to explore all the opportunities the ink offers him. His major influences include Tom Wesselmann, Matisse, Richard Kern and Serge Gainsbourg, among others.

HVW8 Art + Design Gallery was founded in 2006 by curator Tyler Gibney with Addison Liu in Los Angeles, California, with mandate supporting fine-art and avant-garde graphic design. Over the past seven years, emerging and established artists such as Parra, Geoff McFetridge, Kevin Lyons, Hassan Rahim, Mark Gonzales, Cody Hudson, Lisa Leone, Craig Costello (aka Krink), and Jean André have exhibited their works. Further informaton can be found on HVW8.com

MON AMOUR will be the inaugural event of HVW8 BERLIN. After event at LARRY Club – chauseestraße 131, Berlin Mitte

Supported by Zoe and Our/Berlin

HVW8 BERLIN Linienstraße 161, corner Klein Hamburgerstraße
Open Tuesday through Saturday from 12- 6pm or by appointment: (0)30 9836 3691

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Bronx Museum: Here I Am: Photographs by Lisa Leone

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Photo the Exhibition ‘Then’ from 2012 at HVW8 Gallery.

HVW8 Alumni Lisa Leone’s exhibition Here I Am: Photographs by Lisa Leone opens this Saturday, September 13, 4:00 to 7:00pm at the The Bronx Museum of the Arts.

The Bronx – Paris – Los Angeles – early 1990s – hip hop. This culture of music, dance, art and fashion is forever in its nascent and most authentic in Here I Am: Photographs by Lisa Leone. From Nas in the first studio recordings for what would become his iconic debut album Illmatic, to Snoop on the set of his first video, from ingénue Debi Mazar on the subway to Grandmaster Flash at a RockSteady reunion, Leone’s photographs open portals to the sounds, places and, most importantly, the people who forged and continue to influence the energy that is hip hop.

 

Erin D. Garcia opens Saturday, August 16th

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5 Shapes in 6 Colors
August 16th – September 14th, 2014

Opening this Saturday at 7pm, please RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com

For inquires email info@hvw8.com

Erin’s geometric abstractions derive from a mother structure of Stacked blocks and volumes rendered in a series of colors. He deconstructs this architecture of color into a simpler lexicon of lines, arches, and curves in an ongoing search of other primary structures, or as he says, “elements”.  These have been the units of full scale pop environments featured in fashion spreads for Bullett and Foam magazines and adorned the walls of the Ace and Standard Hotels. Though effortless in appearance, the ornamental function should not diminish the severity of his methodology. His work is a calculated process of designating, defining, arranging, and permuting elements and colors with algorithmic thoroughness. It embodies 1960′s Minimalism’s obsession with reduction, seriality, repetition, and a priori with a Sottsassian embrace of the decorative. However, with Erin’s treatment these shapes have never been so imposing and naturally enjoyable as the all-consuming and infinitely configurable Amen Break drum loop.

Erin’s work is in the title. Often reduced to a series of numbers, or definitions of a permutative process, there is an impulse to decode what number corresponds to what element, which is the color, and what is the relationship. All of this implies an inherent rhythm in the way that these patterns are arranged.  His compositional logic is intimately tied to strategies of musical arrangement but exploit the mind’s tendency to complete data. Lines that edge triangles appear completed, but upon closer look, are actually disconnected and superimposed with unmet corners. Three dimensional solids we perceive as pyramids are actually incomplete and interrupted by yet another incomplete solid. It is a counterargument to the Gestalt, the theory of mind that the global whole is more than the sum of its parts. As if he means to argue that the global whole is actually a sum of parts. Or stated in Erin’s nomenclature, that “stacks” are just “elements” with no corners.

Minimalism’s gamble fell short with its habit of weighing down its simplicity with lofty theory. After all, less can’t be more when you have to read before understanding. Whether operating in the tradition of Gestalt or not, Erin’s work is instant. Ed Ruscha taught art to choose yellow, pink, and blue over black, white, and grey. The vibrancy of color, sterility, spontaneity, and casualness of appearance has come to be inextricably linked to the overall aesthetic of Los Angeles. Its strong history of pop, abstraction, and west coast lax is communicated in a language of waves, gloss, and playful irreverence. Erin isn’t claiming this territory, but rather, seems to be isolating LA’s formal identity into a codex of yellow half circles and blue waves that subconsciously reads as something distinctly Angelian.

It’s difficult in it’s procedural complexity, yet, refuses any need of calculation. It’s immediate, familiar. Something as fundamental as a shape is universal enough to draw cultural associations: sun, ocean, cross; yet, the moment you do, you’ve already overthought it.

To Sottsass colors are words;  to Erin, colors are numbers, and numbers are beats.

Born in the South, Erin is a musician, artist, and designer living and practicing in Los Angeles. He has published folios, collaborated with JUCO fashion and photographer John Michael Fulton, and completed three commissioned public murals. His work has been exhibited internationally in Tokyo, London, New York and Art Basel Miami.  5 shapes in 6 Colors is his second solo exhibition and second showing at HVW8 Gallery.

 

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Repetitions of 6 Shapes in 6 Colors, Acrylic on Wood Panel, 18 x 24″ (45.7 x 61 cm)

Summer School at the ACE

 

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Thank you to everyone that attended this year’s Summer School at the ACE Hotel in Palm Springs. The Gallery hosted workshops with artist alumni including a Shibori Dye class by Mtendere Mandowa (Teebs), Post Cards with Jean André, an infinite pattern making and ‘zine production class with Alvaro Ilizarbe and a collage class directed by Erin D. Garcia. Hopefully more artwork related workshop in the near future.

For further reading :

Juxtapoz

Palm Springs Desert Sun newspaper

additional photos on HVW8 Gallery Instagram

Janette Beckman – Rebel Cultures. Opens April 17th.

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Rebel Cultures:
Punks, Rap and Gangs

Opening Thursday, April 17th, 2014, 7 – 10pm
Please RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com

In the summer of 1982, Janette Beckman was introduced to members of the East LA gang El Hoyo Maravilla.  She proceeded to document this culture much as she had with British punks and the emerging New York hip-hop scene.  HVW8 presents her photographs of these seemingly disparate tribes bound by a common rebel spirit.

Janette Beckman vividly remembers that summer. “I was spending the summer in LA with a friend who managed a punk band…for me that meant going out to clubs at night to take photos, neon signs, palm trees, 1950′s bars and cars, Venice beach and much more.

One day I met a writer who was working on a story about the East LA gang scene. I asked him to introduce me to the El Hoyo Maravilla gang. We drove out one hot summer day to a large dusty park in East LA to meet some members of the HM gang.

I had been documenting the London punk scene since 1976 and brought with me a box of 8”X10” prints of the British skinheads, punks, ska and rockabilly kids to show them. I explained that these were the ‘gangs’ in the UK and they agreed to let me take portraits of them to show people in London.  I spent that summer photographing the gang with my Hasselblad camera, driving back and forth from Hollywood to East LA in my Rent-A-Wreck V8 Ford LTD.

The East LA area was poor, hot and arid, and there was the constant sound of LAPD helicopters buzzing overhead. The gang members introduced me to their families, showed me the barrio and tried to explain how it was living ‘la vida loca’.

I was the first British person they had ever met and we were curious about each other.”

In 2011, Dashwood Books published a collection of Janette’s photos of the HM gang.  One of the three girls Janette had photographed leaning against a car in the park contacted her after seeing the book.

Nearly 30 years after that original photo was taken, Janette met the girls again to see where their lives had taken them.  “We met in Boyle Heights at their sister Arlene’s house and they took me to the Home Girl Café for lunch. The three women had amazing tales to tell of their lives.  They had lost husbands to gang violence. But these three amazing women had survived and thrived, they were mothers, career women and still the best of friends. They told me that most of the Hoyo Maravilla guys that I had photographed back in the day were either in jail or had passed away. We sat in the cafe and told stories. They tried to date the exact year I had met them: ‘Was the car we were standing in front of gold or blue?’ they asked, because one of their friends had been shot in the car and it had to be repainted after that because of the blood stains – this was how they would date the photos.”

This exhibition features not only photographs of the HM gang back in the day and the Rivera Bad Girls today, but also various iconic photographs documenting the formative years of the punk and hip-hop scenes including Johnny Rotten, Joe Strummer, Debbie Harry, Slick Rick, Keith Haring, and Run DMC to name a few.

BIOGRAPHY

‘Londoner Janette Beckman began her career at the dawn of punk rock working for The Face and Melody Maker. She shot bands from The Clash to The Specials as well as 3 Police album covers. Her powerful portraits celebrating this music and street style are collected in ‘Made in the UK: The Music of Attitude, 1977-1982‘, PowerHouse Books 2005.

Moving to New York in 1982, she was drawn to the underground Hip Hop scene. Her photographs of pioneers Afrika Bambaata, Run DMC, Salt’ n ‘Pepa and Grandmaster Flash and 1980′s style are collected in ‘The Breaks, Stylin and Profilin 1982-1990‘, PowerHouse Books 2007.

Since moving to New York she has shot everyone from entertainers to politicians – Clients include: Esquire, Rolling Stone, People, Interview, London Sunday Times Magazine, Observer Magazine, Doc Marten, Converse, Schott, Casio, Warner Brothers Music, Universal Music, etc.

Her photographs have recently been exhibited at: Paul Smith London, Morrison Hotel Gallery NYC, Collette Paris, Isetan Tokyo, Kong Gallery Shanghai, Rockarchive and Proud Gallery London.

HVW8 Gallery at ART BASEL Miami

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adidas originals and HVW8 Gallery present:

Bits and Pieces

Thurs. Dec 5th, 10 – 2AM.

featuring art installations by
Kevin Lyons (Brooklyn)
Jean André (Paris)
Erin D. Garcia (LA)
Jay West (Harlem)

music by:
Dam-Funk (LA)

Hosted by Peas and Carrots (LA)
with DJ DZA (Miami) and Them Jeans (LA)

The Garret
697 North Miami Avenue
Downtown Miami

RSVP required:
rsvp@hvw8.com

Outside the Lines at MOCA

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HVW8’s Tyler Gibney will take part in today’s book launch at the MOCA and will be on hand to sign copies of his contribution to Outside the Lines.

Info below from from the MOCA website :

Join us for the book launch of OUTSIDE THE LINES: AN ARTISTS’ COLORING BOOK FOR GIANT IMAGINATIONS, a striking collection of illustrations from more than 100 creative masterminds, including animators, cartoonists, fine artists, graphic artists, illustrators, musicians, outsider artists, photographers, street artists, and video game artists, curated by Souris Hong-Porretta. Enjoy DJ sets by Shepard Fairey and Dylan Nathan aka JEGA as well as activity stations for drawing and coloring. Over 50 artists will be on site to sign copies of the book.

FREE INFO 213 621 1710 or STOREONLINE@MOCA.ORG