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McKay Felt – ‘In The Blink Of An Eye’
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE”
An exhibition by McKay Felt x HVW8 Gallery
HVW8 Gallery Los Angeles is proud to continue its nearly 20-year exploration of the relationship between art and music with a debut solo exhibition by acclaimed artist and illustrator McKay Felt. Now based in Los Angeles, McKay’s career has led him to collaborate with Grammy Award-winning artists such as Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Knxwledge, Anderson .Paak, and Gorillaz.
This exhibition marks a decade of McKay creating art with musicians, beginning with his first collaboration with Flying Lotus in 2014. Since then, he has worked with Little Simz, DOMi and JD BECK, Kari Faux, and contributed to Donald Glover’s Atlanta.
McKay follows in the tradition of legendary artists such as Egon Schiele, Hieronymus Bosch, Taiyo Matsumoto, Gustav Doré, Alphonse Mucha, Suehiro Maruo, Pedro Bell, Mati Klarwein, Moebius, and Guido Crepax, speaking his own graphic language. His work spans multiple media, including film, animation, television, jewelry, stage design, and art direction.
The exhibition will showcase works created over the past decade, highlighting McKay’s exploration and expression through line drawings inspired by the music of his collaborators. Though many of these pieces feature vibrant colors, they originate from hand-drawn ink or graphite, offering a tactile experience whether viewed on screen or in person.
BIO
McKay Felt graduated from London’s Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) in 2016. Now based in Los Angeles, his illustration career has led to collaborations with Grammy Award-winning artists such as Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Knxwledge, Anderson .Paak, and Gorillaz. McKay’s work was featured in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s landmark 2021 exhibition, and his artwork created for Little Simz will continue its international circuit as part of the immersive show “Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser” through 2027.
Opening: Thursday, October 3rd, 7–10 pm
Exhibition Runs: Until November 7th
RSVP: rsvp@hvw8.com
Special surprise performance to follow.
HVW8 Gallery Los Angeles
661 N. Spaulding Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Open Wed–Sun, 1–6 pm
info@hvw8.com
ALAIN LEVITT ‘NYC 2000 – 2005’ now on view at HVW8 LA
ALAIN LEVITT
NYC 2000 – 2005
May 30th – June 29th, 2024
Opening May 30th, 7-10pm
Please RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com
Photography is more about time than light. The instantaneous click of the shutter, where light imprints an echo of a moment onto film that, with emulsion, becomes a tangible trace of a time that the viewer will never see again. Even digitally, it’s the same idea: we look into the past when we look at photography. So what kind of past do we see in Alain Levitt’s photographs? First, they are shot on film, so we see a time before digital cameras and social media sped up the time from the shot to the audience. This matters. Alain’s photos record a past time, perhaps the last time, that one posed for photos they may not ever see. This may explain the naked innocence that reads as vulnerable bluster or decadent swagger depending on the subject. Some subjects hoped they’d end up a Do, while secretly feeling like a Don’t. Alain tenderly captured that indeterminacy. At the turn of the millennium, hipster fashion drew from the seventies and eighties because the future was unimaginably bleak. Do’s and Don’t’s were about humor and horror: facing the ruins of a forfeited future, how else could one react but with sneering laughter? Surrounded by death with no job security, social currency and cultural capital mattered most. Levitt preserved in film’s incandescent flicker the last gasp of a fugitive, underground nightlife. Behavior wasn’t yet proscribed by clout. Photographic time was still produced in emulsion not gigabytes. Pinched between the glorious afterglow of New York’s subculturalJason Dill heyday and the dawn of a life lived through a screen, Alain shot his friends as they stumbled through the flux at 4am. The images are timeless because his subject was between epochs, out of step with the rest of the world. Now two decades later, these don’t stand so much as record of a bygone era, but a blueprint for what being young New York City has become: a provisional gig-economy city driven by social spectacle. That fleeting moment in time has been preserved for all time.
About ALAIN LEVITT
Alain Levitt – Born in Santa Monica in 1974, Alain grew up freerange on the west side of Los Angeles. Skateboarding, Graffiti, Raving – the trifecta of 90’s subcultures – helped inform his worldview and gave him a home amongst the outcasts. The same world he would focus his lens on after moving to New York in 2000. (Where he lived with Dill and Mikey for a short stint) Not yet a photographer, Alain picked up a camera out of necessity. His first job in NY was shooting street fashion for his sister, Danielle Levitt’s, Sunday style column in the New York Post – a job that required carrying a camera 24/7. Alain recalls showing up to Max Fish and being gently made fun of for his oversized Paparazzi rig. His second job, at the infamous gay bar The Cock, gave him a front-row seat to a wild NY that was quickly being choked out by Mayor Giuliani and provided enough income for this budding photographer to only work two evenings a week. More time to run the streets. Alain quickly found his community on the Lower East Side. Alife by day, Max Fish at night. And after starting a biweekly party, with Spencer Sweeny, at The Hole, Alain planted his seed in the downtown scene. These photographs represent a specific time in New York. A time just before iPhones, a time just before party websites. A New York still informed by the generation before that had sent out a beacon to guide us to a family we didn’t know we were part of. This book is not about the photographs but of a beautiful moment we were so lucky to be part of.
With support from adidas and FA
NOSTALGIA FALSA April 19th – May 25th, 2024, HVW8 LA
Opening April 19th “Nostalgia Falsa”
Join us Friday, April 19th from 6-10 p.m. in our Los Angeles Gallery for the opening of“Nostalgia Falsa” a group show curated by Kari Padilla.
Art not only evokes memories but also delves into nostalgia as a strategy to critically analyze the past and its influence on the present. This exploration involves there interpretation and questioning of established historical narratives, challenging common perceptions of collective memory and offering new perspectives on distant events that contribute to our identity.
“False Nostalgia” arises when one yearns for a place or time they have never truly lived in. It also fictionalizes the memory of lived experiences. However, the mechanism of this type of nostalgia serves to critically recognize ourselves and create connections with that which is distant, as it is somehow connected to us and impacts the physical and emotional experience of the here and now.
This group exhibition of five Mexican artists – Napoleón Aguilera, Julio García Aguilar, Marianela Castro Mercado, Alonso Robles, and Trilce Zúñiga Loya – serves a critical purpose by inviting the public to recognize themselves and create connections with seemingly distant experiences. The sentiment resonates through a familiar visual language in artworks spanning painting, sculpture, and mixed media, exploring themes of supposed Mexican identity: family celebrations, machismo, cultural nuances, desert, and urban space. Ultimately, for better or for worse, these narratives are somehow reproduced in other places and times.
The exhibition explores the relationship between memory, identity, and cultural connections.
To RSVP for our opening reception please email rsvp@hvw8.com, to inquire please contact info@hvw8.com
Apertura el 19 de abril “Nostalgia Falsa”
Acompáñanos el viernes 19 de abril de 6 a 10 p.m. en nuestra galería de Los Ángeles para la inauguración de “Nostalgia Falsa”, una exposición colectiva curada por Kari Padilla.
El arte no solo evoca recuerdos, sino que también se sumerge en la nostalgia como una estrategia para analizar críticamente el pasado y su influencia en el presente. Esta exploración implica la reinterpretación y el cuestionamiento de las narrativas históricas establecidas, desafiando las percepciones comunes de la memoria colectiva y ofreciendo nuevas perspectivas sobre eventos lejanos que contribuyen a nuestra identidad.
La “Nostalgia Falsa” surge cuando uno anhela un lugar o tiempo en el que nunca ha vivido realmente. También, interpreta con ficción el recuerdo de lo vivido. Sin embargo, el mecanismo de este tipo de nostalgia sirve para reconocernos críticamente y crear vínculos con aquello que es distante, pues de alguna forma está conectado a nosotros y repercute en la experiencia física y emocional del aquí y ahora.
Esta exposición grupal de cinco artistas mexicanos – Napoleón Aguilera, Julio García Aguilar, Marianela Castro Mercado, Alonso Robles y Trilce Zúñiga Loya – sirve un propósito crítico al invitar al público a reconocerse a sí mismo y crear conexiones con experiencias aparentemente distantes. El sentimiento resuena a través de un lenguaje visual familiar en obras de arte que abarcan pintura, escultura y medios mixtos, explorando temas de la supuesta identidad mexicana: fiestas familiares, machismo, matices culturales, desierto y el espacio urbano. Al final, para bien o para mal, estas narrativas se reproducen de alguna forma en otros lugares y tiempos.
La exposición explora la relación entre la memoria, la identidad y las conexiones culturales.
Para confirmar su asistencia a nuestra recepción de apertura, envíe un correo a rsvp@hvw8.com; para consultas, comuníquese con info@hvw8.com.
Featured Artist
Napoleón Aguilera
Julio García Aguilar
Marianela Castro Mercado
Alonso Robles
Trilce Zúñiga Loya
City of Quartz 2 – Berlin Gallery Weekend
City of Quartz 2
At HVW8 Berlin
Linienstraße 161
10115
April 27 – May 26, 2024
On the occasion of Berlin Gallery Weekend
Featuring:
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr
Eddie Salinas
Emmanuel Louisnord Desir
Fulton Leroy Washington
Rikkí Wright
Willbert Olivar & Lalo Avila
City of Quartz 2 is a follow up to the eponymously eponymous exhibition from March of 2020, which opened just days before the world would close down…
Ironically the initial exhibition lifted its name from the 1990 book by author Mike Davis, which examines how contemporary Los Angeles had been shaped by different powerful forces in history much like the Covid 19 pandemic would come to shape and effect the entire world.. As the dust continues to settle in a post pandemic paradigm, we once again assemble a group of seven Los Angeles based artists at an attempt to understand where we might by be headed in the City of Quartz.
Los Angeles, regarded as the media capital, has long been responsible for authoring and disseminating trends in culture that reverberate the world over. Perched on the edge of the western world, we begin at the end and work our way toward the future, literally, in time and place our findings from the once sleepy desert village onto the European stage (the beginning of the western world) and examine them in a way one could only do in a city like Berlin Germany.
The two HVW8 galleries bookend the entirety of The West, with a bunch of stuff happening in between, City of Quartz 2 is an attempt to understand what the heck is going on in a world which feels to be spiraling at an ever accelerated pace.
City of Quartz 2 will open during Berlin Gallery Weekend with an opening reception on Friday April 27th and continue on view through the end of May.
Gallery Weekend marks the beginning of the spring and summer season in the region where the gallery will expect to receive hundreds of visitors over the course of the exhibition. City of Quartz 2 is the continuation of periodical surveys examining the shifting zeitgeist of Los Angeles through its most prominent artists of the moment. Within the exhibition several of the artists have been included in major museum exhibitions, and biennials such as Made in LA, and the Rubell Museum.
“Glen from Glendale” – Opens April 10th
Glenjamn & HVW8 Gallery LA present:
“Glen from Glendale”
(His first art show ever)
OPENING RECEPTION
Wednesday, April 10, 6 -10pm
LIMITED PRINTS & BOOKS (Just An Idea) & SHIRTS (BXR) available
MUSIC BY:
THEE MIKE B & FRIENDS
FOOD:
Double Dragon BBQ
DRINK:
OPEN BEER
Email: rsvp@hvw8.com
Exhibition Runs to April 16th
HVW8 Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave. 90036
Dafterparty:
Cobras & Matadors
10pm+
7505 Melrose Ave.
Read LA Times Article :
Call it the Glenjamn effect. The photographer has been taking us inside L.A. parties for 20 years
MINA MANIA – HVW8 Berlin
MINA MANIA
TWISTS AND TURNS
Opening on March 8, International Women’s Day.
HVW8 Berlin is pleased to announce TWISTS AND TURNS an exhibition by German artist MINA MANIA.
Just like a dance, life consists of twists and turns.
Constantly in the move, changing, transforming.
HVW8 Berlin and MINA MANIA invite you to dance with Nana and explore the power of this iconic female figure.
For more information please contact
manuel@hvw8.com
NOTHING LASTS – Raj Debah
Setting out on a meaningful journey to shine a light on an untold story, using the tools of mixed media shaped by photos, artifacts, collage, found footage, and video art. I use my work to connect with themes of human isolation and evolution to explore the complex story of nomadic assimilation. I focus on the scarcely recorded histories of indentured and indigenous communities with historical bonds to the West Indies. Uncovering their journey as a mirror to my own existence and a way to confront my struggles tied to growing issues of censorship, bigotry and oppression across the globe.
– Raj Debah
Born in 1978 in Manhattan NYC and raised up in the Bronx NY hailing from first generation immigrant parents from the West Indies. Raj Debah now lives and works practicing his art in Los Angeles California.
Opening Nov. 18th, 7 – 10pm at HVW8 Los Angeles
Monja Gentschow – Kurzurlaub, Opens Nov. 17th, 6 – 9pm, Berlin
the highlights of my childhood days were
the family’s all-inclusive tours
my sister and i would browse through catalogues
and select the hotel (according to the pool)
endless seas of parasols, a poolside,
colorful drinks from the hotel bar,
turquoise water and 90ies chairs became
the symbols of my longings
head vacation?
ignoring the news because too sensitive
nowadays, if we need a short break
we escape into the vacations of others on instagram
italy, dolce vita – LA, palms and pools –
mykonos, parasols and cliffs
a time of relaxation for me and
the audience
the beautiful, carefree and simple
inspired by your holiday picture
Monja Gentschow is an artist and illustrator, born and raised in Berlin. She studied at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and Universität der Künste. She crafts all artworks for the music label Keinemusik, illustrated a column for the newspaper Zeit and designed her own set of playing cards amongst many other projects.
As We Are – Group Exhibition
HVW8 Gallery presents a group show curated by Mtendere Mandowa (Teebs) – As We Are – a title both permanent and impermanent. It evokes nature and complements the soothing combination of the pieces exhibited. The works use different mediums such as natural grown and dyed prints and cloth, abstract woodblock paintings, ceramic vessels and audio visual works, all of which resonate with the values of meditation in movement. The artists and their work showcase meaningful reminders of self-care practices in motion, and a connection to one another as people in places. All works were created or completed in 2020 during the ongoing pandemic.
Artist Bios
Melissa “Misa” Chhan*
Misa is an artist and natural dyer who lives and works in Los Angeles. She works across natural dyes, textiles, printmaking, and artists books. Her background in Book Arts / Papermaking / Natural Fibers lead her to explore natural dyes as a medium to stay engaged with and learn from the natural world. The mindset of domination over nature creates a scenario where we feel detached from nature as opposed to understanding that we are fundamentally dependent on it. Her goal is to bring pure joy through making work with nature and her surroundings. She spends her time gardening, practicing how to coax color from plants, and researching natural dyes and minerals and how to integrate them in her daily life.
B.A., Book Arts at University of California, Santa Barbara. 2013
Kishi Yuma (b. 1993 in Tochigi, Japan)
Since graduating from the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Electrical Optics in 2019, he has been active at the base in Tokyo. He mainly produces works that consider “love” as energy that transcends time and space by looking at “ghosts” in parallel universes using Deep Learning. His works have been used by NIKE and VOGUE, and he is active in many fields.
Jeannie Kwon (b. 1986)
Los Angeles based artist now working/living in Brooklyn NY. She is a 1st generation Korean-American with a background in the interior design industry. A self-trained potter, Jeannie produces functional works of art that explore the relationships between design, environment, materials, and space with influence from her Korean background and history in pottery. The works shown in As We Are are meditative pieces in a focused form made in Brooklyn in late 2020.
Instagram @jeanniekwonstudio
Leland Jackson (b. 1988)
A Los Angeles based mixed media artist who produces music under the alias Ahnnu. At a young age, cartooning and graffiti built a background of drawing and painting in Jackson’s life. As a self-taught artist his work comes from the non-formal, influenced by the experimental practices of musique concrete, abstract expressionism, art brut and hip hop. His approach to image making blends an automatic style of mark making and gestural line work, sometimes alongside collage techniques. A central theme linking all of Jackson’s work is one of human nature , exploring the psychological and mythical worlds of the self. His musical work is made using a computer, manipulating, blending and assembling samples, recorded audio and electronic sounds. Ahnnu’s ‘World Music’ and ‘Perception’ was released on Leaving Records, with ‘Perception’ gaining notoriety in Rolling Stone’s top avant-garde albums of 2015. His other work under Ahnnu, ‘Battered Sphinx’ and ‘Special Forces’ was released on the NNA Tapes label.
Y2525 is a frame animated music video from Ahnnu’s album ‘Pattern Play’. The video is synchronized to the rhythmic and tonal character of the track. The sounds are represented by a stripped down visual language of lines, circles and squares plotted briefly, at times looping and at others accommodating single occurrences in the composition of the music, all of which collapse onto each other and dissipate. The viewer is placed in a perpetual transience; a sensory ride of deconstructed motion, rhythm and design.
Instagram @mellowdeg
Mtendere Mandowa (b.1987 in New York)
With Malawi and Barbados origins, Mandowa is a producer, a painter, and contributing member of the noted LA based Brainfeeder record label under the moniker Teebs. His paintings often reflect his music production: collaging, overlapping, and mixing imagery with painted gestures to create a meditative and abstract visual landscape. The work emanates a sense of organic appeal with feelings of warmth and rhythm coalescing. At times the works seem overgrown with organic shapes bending and folding atop one another while at other times the compositions remain sparse and refined.
The woodblock paintings are ritual studies in color and shape performed in the mornings. Each piece shows abstract shapes overlapping and interacting in a rhythmic manner as they share a limited space in the frame of the wood blocks. The blocks are scraps of wood bought from lumber yards and cut and sanded to shape.
Web tteebbss.com
Keith Forever
Skateboarding legend and streetwear pioneer Keith Hufnagel passed away at age 46 this year following a battle with brain cancer. To pay tribute to the HUF Worldwide founder, who helped pave the way for sneaker and streetwear culture in the early 2000s, his brand has launched an exhibition in Los Angeles.
Entitled HUF FOREVER, the exhibition is available for public viewing at the HVW8 Gallery from Saturday, Oct. 31 until Nov. 8. Open 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. to the public daily with COVID-19 precautions in place, the showcases features photography from Ari Marcopolous, Giovanni Reda, Tobin Yelland, Atiba Jefferson, and more. There’s also a tribute video on display by RB Umali, and a mural from Remio.
HUF will also release a t-shirt paying tribute to the late skate icon. Designed by Cali Dewitt and James Rockin, the shirt will be available at the brand’s Los Angeles store and the online shop. All proceeds from the t-shirt, which retails for $40, will go towards the non-profit Phase One Foundation, which support cutting edge cancer research.
“Keith Hufnagel paved the way for all of us,” the brand added. “As a respect professional skateboarder, shop owner, brand founder, footwear and apparel designer, creative director, and industry leader. He showed us how to do it, and how to do it right. Keith’s legacy will continue to live on at HUF. Today, tomorrow, and forever.
Screen 2 Screen – Episode 1: Tyler Gibney HVW8 Gallery
HVW8 Gallery presents ‘Screen 2 Screen’, a weekly artist interview series featuring stay at home interviews and virtual studio visits. By focusing on artists’ perspectives, insights and practices in these uncharted times, we see how a global community of artists are dealing with and creating during current lockdown and quarantine measures.
Episode 1: Tyler Gibney HVW8 Gallery
Featuring curator and artist Tyler Gibney (HVW8 Gallery) from Los Angeles in conversation with Alberto Cuadros, discussing outlook, setting up a home studio, and the impact of the quarantine on the art world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4M4l_6lLk
‘RITUALS’ with Shaniqwa Jarvis and Rajendra Debah
Please RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com
‘Pause in your flight’ opening night photos – HVW8 Berlin
Thanks to everyone that attended the opening of ‘Pause in your Flight’.
The exhibit runs through February 26th.
Access to Community Opening / Andere Stadt Kein Katalog (ASKK) Opening Night
A few photos from opening night of Andere Stadt Kein Katalog (ASKK) now on display until Jan. 19th, 2020 at HVW8 Los Angeles.
BRAVE NEW VIEWS – MIAMI
Fri Dec 6th – Sun Dec 8th, 2019
After a year-long run at HVW8 Gallery in Los Angeles, Brave New Views takes on Miami with a pop-up gallery in the epicenter of Downtown Miami. The three day exhibition features artwork and installations from some of today’s leading contemporary artists at the intersection of music and art.
To kick things off on Thursday, December 5th, NTS, HVW8 and Up in Smoke will host an invite-only, late-night event at Woodside Club from 11pm – 5am with heavy hitters from the Alamo Records roster.
In addition to the artwork and installations, the Brave New Views pop up will host surprise DJ performances with a few special guests from the extended NTS family.
The Brave New Views Miami Exhibition features artists:
Calmatic
DJ Ross One
Charlie Ahearn
Eric Elms
Steven Traylor
Kilo Kish
Lisa Leone
Peter Beste
Exhibition Dates & Address
Opening: Thurs Dec 5th, 6 – 9pm
Exhibition Hours:
Fri Dec 6th – Sun Dec 8th, 1 – 7pm
78 E Flagler st, Miami, FL 33130
KILO KISH ROBINSON – BLESSED ASSURANCE: a dream that I had
KILO KISH ROBINSON
BLESSED ASSURANCE: a dream that I had
Opening reception + performance
Friday Nov 15th, 7 – 10pm.
Exhibition runs Nov. 15th until Dec. 15th, 2019
RSVP at kilokishrsvp@hvw8.com
BLESSED ASSURANCE: a dream that i had is an exhibition examining the interactivity between the spiritual and creative. Kilo Kish explores the sacrificial nature of the artists’ path. Opening on November 15th, this show marks her second solo show at HVW8 Art + Design Gallery Los Angeles.
The show features a 3-channel film euphoric featuring artist interviews and the revelations that come from creative practice.
“When I started interviewing the artists, I was so inspired by their willingness to suffer for a calling they found pure. Their audacity made them saintly to me. I wanted to explore belief in one’s art and the way it relates to religious faith and spiritual calling. Creative practice almost becomes a religion. And I think, through it, you become closer to God.”
The show will feature an interactive “audio-visual room of the mind” where visitors become a part of the creative process.
The title of the show BLESSED ASSURANCE comes from a hymn. “This entire show came to me in a dream. I find it intriguing to create a physical space from a mindset and an openness that I feel so connected to as a driving force. I’m happy to explore the act of making as its very own reward. Its very own promise and certainty.”
There’s a sparkling sculptural altar that represents all creative vision, belief, and worth created through the work. “It is the embodiment of unattainable perfection. Creatives are constantly running towards a promised land that is somehow always out of reach.”
Kilo Kish / Kish Robinson is an American musician, visual artist, and designer living in Los Angeles.
Recent Press from Thoughts Become Words, Words Become Images
Recent Press from “Thoughts Become Words, Words Become Images” exhibition:
“Thoughts Become Words, Words Become Images” will run until October 13.
The Good, the Purple and the Weird, a group exhibition Berlin
Exhibition Opening
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
6:00pm – 10:00pm
HVW8 Berlin – Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin
HVW8 Gallery Berlin is pleased to present The Good, the Purple and the Weird, a group exhibition exploring care, spirituality and experimentation in contemporary creation. The show finds connections between ideas in paint, drawings and ceramics, bringing together recent works by seven artists from Berlin and Brussels: Sascha Brylla, Paul Ferens, Maxime Fragnon, Annabell Häfner, Viktoria Maliar, Jacopo Pagin and François Patoue. Embracing their diverse aesthetics and methods of production, the exhibition reveals small truths about common references for describing memories, atmospheres and intimacies.
The Good, the Purple and the Weird is an offering of dreamlike visions, exhibiting a new visual language of signs and symbols. Among the selected works, Jacopo Pagin’s drawings are embedded with mythological references to vitality, and explore patterns in colour pastel which recall the textures and anatomy of trees. Earthly motifs also surface in the work of Maxime Fragnon, the naturalist of the ensemble, whose mixed media ceramics are infused with found elements of flowers and pebbles. In the scratched tempera painting by Sascha Brylla, created with the sgraffito technique as part of his Hunting Scene series, wild animal subjects are both revealed and disguised in their environment. Such relics of remembered and imagined scenery are also present in Annabell Häfner’s hazy hotel interiors, which meditate on the ambience and melancholia of impersonal space. The abstract landscapes of Paul Ferens nestle between real and impossible environments, and Victoria Maliar’s silhouettes emerge like spirits in a midnight jungle, with both artists summoning the psychology of dreams and possible realms of the subconscious. François Patoue’s oil paintings are studies of deep, passionate colour, created with chemical reactions that guide his media to transform and reveal itself on the canvas.
The Good, the Purple and the Weird is curated by Agathe André de Tremontels.
Text by Brit Seaton
Paul Ferens
Annabell Häfner
‘Thoughts become Words, Words Become Images’ Group Exhibit
Opening Thursday Sept 12th, 6 – 9pm. RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com
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)
NTS X HVW8 – Brave New Waves
HVW8 Gallery and NTS present a new series exploring the relationship between art and music. Each installment of the series will feature an art exhibition & opening event together with musical performances for broadcast and artist interview podcasts.
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:
‘Beirut Youth’ Exhibition at HVW8 Berlin
HVW8 Gallery and adidas Originals present:
BEIRUT YOUTH –
GOGY ESPARZA & JEY PERIE
Opening: Friday, July 5, 6-10 pm
Show: July 6 – August 3, 2019
HVW8 Gallery Berlin presents Beirut Youth – an immersive, multimedia installation of Jey Perie and Gogy Esparza’s experiences while in Beirut, Lebanon.
The duo arrived in August 2016, with little more than a tentative plan to recount the lives of the city’s youth, from the affluent to the disenfranchised. Honest, raw, sensitive; the exhibition crystallizes the emotion they felt there, and in its people. The beauty and blood of its pulse, the pain and fruits of its history. Though war-torn and fractured, the juxtaposition of such diversity in cultures, religions and opinions breed its chaos, seductively, beautifully, the way only a Beruti enchantress could.
Esparza photographed these images exclusively on 35mm film in August 2016, and on a second trip in March 2017 (over a total of 20 days). He also shot digital video, and constructed four short films on he and Perie’s experiences.
Beirut Youth has created physical extensions of the project via its photography book including all exhibition images, and a tee shirt commemorating the history and culture of the City. 50% of proceeds from these sales will be donated directly to Shatila Refugee Camp’s CYC Youth Center in Southern Beirut. Initially set-up in 1949 for displaced Palestinians, the camp is also home for over 6,000 Syrian Refugees since the start of the 2011 Syrian Civil War. Donations will go towards providing CYC’s children with educational materials, stationary, uniforms and sneakers for the center’s youth football program. You can also donate directly through the GoFundMe link found on the site: www.beirutyouth.com
After premiering the exhibition in New York City on June 2017, Beirut Youth has also exhibited in Dubai, Tokyo and Los Angeles. The duo hand delivered donations to CYC in Shatila summer 2018, and closed out with the homecoming installation in Beirut.
GOGY ESPARZA
(b. 1987) is a New York City-based artist who concentrates in fine art, photography, and video.His project, El Vacîo (2012-13) featured a photography book published by Dashwood Books, and accompanying exhibitions with Comme Des Garçons in Berlin and the Wayward Gallery in London. Esparza has also exhibited at Test Gallery (Copenhagen), SO Gallery (Tokyo), NO ROMANCE Gallery (NYC), Know-Wave Gallery (NYC), AUTO BODY (NYC/MIAMI). Esparza has collaborated with brands such as Supreme, and his work has been featured in publications such as ARTFORUM, Purple Diary, Interview, Richardson Magazine, VICE Creators Project, i-D, Dazed, Ollie, and Hypebeast.
JEY PERIE
Born in the south of France in 1984, Jey has lived in Barcelona, Hong Kong and Tokyo for extended periods and now resides in New York. His network of friends and partners sprawl far and wide, with roots in all corners of culture.
Perie ́s passion for travel and the exchange of cultures is what drives his curiosity. As the Creative Director of Kinfolk, he uses his travel to influence and guide his work. He also consults for several Japanese labels including Bedwin & The Heartbreakers, and has helped expand the brand’s presence outside of Japan with global collaborations such as Converse, adidas originals and Stussy.
Perie currently directs The Kinfolk Store and their in-house label. Over the last decade Jey Perie has been credited for introducing several cult Japanese labels to the US market and also for his work around soccer and the sport’s relationship with Fashion. To that regard, he is currently working alongside soccer institution FC Barcelona, Nike, Adidas and Stone Island to promote soccer culture in the US.
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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
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‘LE LUCKY’ at HVW8 Berlin, Opening Night
Thank-you to everyone that came through the Opening Night of ‘LE LUCKY’ currently on display at HVW8 Berlin.
Eric Elms ‘ViewSonic’ Opens March 8th, 6 – 10pm
Opening Friday, March 8th, 6 – 10pm
RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com
Eric Elms is an artist and designer living and working in out of his multidisciplinary studio in Los Angeles CA. He has shown in numerous group shows around the world as well as solo shows in New York, Tokyo and Paris.
Drawing upon his own art practice as well as his work in print and design, Elms appropriates elements from his previously established graphic language and breaks them down by syllable, re-inventing and re-purposing the familiar to the brink of ambiguity. The imagery is in flux between banality and trope. Forcing the viewer to further reflect upon the image itself rather than it’s direct representation. This new language is used intentionally to degrade the imagery. The work exists in the crosshairs between representation and abstraction.
View Sonic will present two iterations of this process; a series from his “Halftone” paintings as well as a small selection of his “Stair” paintings.
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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
Happy New Year from HVW8 – 2018 Year in Review
Happy New Year from HVW8!
As we head into an amazing line up for 2019, we look back at all the incredible exhibits, installations and performances from HVW8 Los Angeles, Berlin and beyond this past year.
We were lucky to have a number of exhibits from an international group of artists such as Gogy Esparza, Inès Longevial, Atiba Jefferson, Olimpia Zagnoli, Chi Modu, Steven Traylor, and Erin D. Garcia to name a few. We continued with our Creative Class Series for intimate interactions with our gallery artists on their creative process and started an Emerging Artist Program to give a platform for up and coming artists.
We continued with our diversity in programing with a variety of installations, performances, radio broadcasts and artist talks with the likes of Kali Uchis, Snoop Dogg, Standing on the Corner, RZA and Einhundert.
Look for an amazing line up for 2019!
Below are a few links from some highlights of 2018.
2018 Year In Review
Exhibits
Beirut Youth Gogy Esparza, Jey Perie
February 22 – March 18th
Four Conversations Inès Longevial, 44 Flavours, Huskmitnavn, Julian Smith
April 28th – June 16th
Heart-Shaped Box Atiba Jefferson
May 19th – July 15th
Cuore Di Panna Olimpia Zagnoli
May 25th – July 15th
Uncategorized – Berlin and Los Angeles Chi Modu
July 5th – August 4th, 2018
August 26th– September 23rd
Wild At Hand – A Group Show of Contemporary Drawing
September 14th– October 13th
10 Toes With His Chest Caved In Steven Traylor
Sept. 22nd – October 7th
Not To Lose My Head Jay ‘One’ Ramier
October 25th – November 24th
Grand Prix Erin D Garcia
Nov. 16 – Dec. 23rd
2018 HVW8 Highlights – Installations, Artist Talks and Performances :
Sarah Bahbah Installation at HVW8 Los Angeles
Andrew Westerman at HVW8 Berlin
Kali Uchis at HVW8 Los Angeles
Artist Dinners Berlin / Los Angeles
Creative Classes – Atiba Jefferson and Chi Modu
Snoop Dogg Live Talk and DJ Set from HVW8 Plana
Wu Tang x Off Safety featuring Eddie Otchre and Paul Chan, live performance by RZA
Standing on the Corner Live Performance and Film Screening
Einhundert ‘Heavyweight Sounds’ Live broadcast from HVW8 Berlin
Select Press –
Inès Longevail on Cover of Juxtapoz
Tyler Gibney Interview in Amadeus
Olimpia Zagnoli ‘Cuore Di Panna’ lecture for Nicer Tuesdays
Chi Modu at HVW8 in Paper Magazine
Wishing you and your family the best from HVW8 Galleries Los Angeles and Berlin, and looking forward to an exciting and prodigious 2019.
Also Special Thanks to our HVW8 Family, if not for you this would not be possible.
Los Angeles –
Addison Liu, John Wheeler, Gabriel Ortiz, Max Junk, Jake Venden Berge, Henry Anguiano, Nicole Kunz, Kelly Merlo, Yvonne Otchwemah, Julio Martinez, Pierre Briet, Mo Hill, Richie Dandan, Josh Chandler
Berlin –
Jenny Ames, Manuel Osterholt, Mika Manke, Lili Somogyi
Cheers to 2019!
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.
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