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Live at the BBQ with Noelle Scaggs

So it seems that summer is upon us so we’re reviving  our Live at the BBQ podcast series!!

This weekend, our friend Noelle Scaggs will be  breaking it down for us with a very exclusive set of her new solo material. As a bonus, she’s bringing along friend DJ Rhettmatic of the World Famous Beat Junkies – nice!

You’ve heard her with the Rebirth and Quantic, now come through to hear her all the way live right here at the HVW8 Gallery!!! 

We’ll have the grill going and a few beverages on hand. You know you’re welcome to stop on by!

Never heard Noelle? well here you go!

Noelle Scaggs

 

Never Alone

381 Projects has curated ‘Never Alone,’ a group exhibition that opens next week in Toronto. The show features works by  Dennis Chow, HVW8, Paul 107, Marco Cibola and Tracy Maurice.  

The exhibition explores the affects of music on visual artists. 

Kevin's Letter

please post this open letter as much as you can. new marketing approach from a new marketer.
I want to extend an invitation to you all to attend my opening at the HVW8 gallery on Spaulding in West hollywood here in LA on friday, May 9th. I also want to forewarn that in and of itself this is no literal art show. It is riddled with sketches, visual rants and pointless, aggressive dribble. it is unframed, unedited and purely self- indulgent. I am in all truth as you all know an Art Director/Creative Director, not an artist by any stretch, and I have never pretended to be as such and this show will fully reenforce this very reality. All of that having been said, even with lack of focus and in all seriousness a lack of actual work, it winds up ironically being the  first show which i actually show any raw emotion. It is work that wound up personal and silly and not over thought. Recently I worked for a retail machine that kept me very busy methodically and very intentionally calculating exactly what “kids” want to see and purchase. I went through a fairly emotional roller coaster there which made me realize that I wanted to go in a very different direction. Along side this work, I was also experiencing total freedom in my personal freelance work and getting paid to simply be me. The less I thought and obsessed over the work the more people responded to it. backwards George day. Now I am experiencing a very different ride in working for a pseudo ad agency trying to break out of the ad agency model. I commute for nearly 4 hours a day and in that time while riding bumpy trains, I find myself drawing for drawing’s sake. I put my laptop away and abandon fonts and grids and simply draw monsters, and ice creams and Stars of David riding skateboards. They are goofy, angry, and emotional. These are some of the treats that you will see at my show. Nothing fancy. Tape and tacks. wrinkled, non-archival, and devoid of color. Just sharing, warning, but not apologizing. I will carry all the art in a carry on bag on the plane and put it up in less than 24 hours. Please come out. One of my favorite dj’s will be there, Sureshot, an old reggae head who shares my love of early reggae soul seven inches.

nuff’said. sho’nuff. by any means necessary.

Kevin.

Mildred Loving

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Mildred Loving and her husband Richard P Loving are shown in this January 26, 1965 file photograph, Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling, died Friday, May 2, 2008 at her home in rural Milford, her daughter said Monday, May 5, 2008. She was 68. 

Your Mom's In My Business

Printed Ephemera and New Works
by Kevin Lyons

Opening Friday, May 9th, 6 – 10 pm,
Show runs May 10th – June 15th

HVW8 Art +Design Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Gallery open: Wed – Sat, 1- 5pm
Or by appointment:
323 655 4898

Kevin Lyons is a 1992 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where he received a degree in film. After working for Nickelodeon / MTV as an Associate Producer, he co-founded the NYC based design firm, stereo-type which for two years was responsible for much of the graphic look of the New York City underground Hip-Hop and Acid Jazz scene. This included the logo design for the long standing NYC based club, GIANT STEP. Stereo-type’s client list also included Soul Kitchen, 555 Soul and the LA-based, Brass Recordings. After receiving his masters degree from CalArts in 1998, Lyons has gone on to work for Nike, both in and out of house, was the former Art Director of Urban Outfitters on two separate occasions, and has been Art Director for filmmaker Spike Jonze’s Girl Skateboard Company. He was also the original US Art Director for TOKION Magazine and maintains long-standing freelance relationships with Nike, Jordan Brand, Adidas, Stussy and Stussy Japan, Beams Japan, HUF, Nieves Books, Stones Throw Records, Commonwealth Stacks, and long-time friend and collaborator NYC artist, SSUR.

A typographer, an Art Director, a designer, a teacher, and a father. In 2001, he was named as one of “The Top Forty Designers Under Thirty” by ID Magazine. His work has been published worldwide from Thrasher to The Face to Lowdown to Anthem and Refill. He has shown worldwide including solo shows in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo. He has written articles for the AIGA Journal, as well as addressing the AIGA on two occasions including once as a published recipient of its Fresh Dialogues Series. He has also held teaching assistant positions at both RISD and CalArts, and has been a visiting critic at the Yale Graduate School of Design. He was an Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute teaching Typography from 2000 -2002. Most recently, Lyons was the Design Director of the legendary Stussy and then Creative Director for the alternative retail giant, Urban Outfitters from 2003 – 2007.

He is now the Design Director for New York City based Anomaly, a brand incubating, marketing juggernaut with plans on running the world. He also produces three clothing lines; one for 2K called Atlantis, We Free Kings, and the third under his personal namesake, NATURAL BORN. All are distributed globally. Currently, Lyons also maintains his own small experimental graphic project also under the namesake, Natural Born in Philadelphia , PA where he lives with his wife and two daughters drawing type and bumping Twin Hype.

MIMA Gallery Sessions Podcast Vol. 7

New M.I.M.A. Podcast Vol. 7 featuring Ty G and Max.

Ty G’s Gallery Session –

Ronnie Laws – Tidal Wave
The Hue – Steppin
George Levin – In My Car
Moodyman – Ya Blessin’ me
Theo Parrish – I Can’t Take It
Manhead – Show Me The Way (TyG refix)
Chocolate Milk – Time Machine
Weirdo Raido edit
Tommy Stewart – Fulton County Line
The Hue – Prize
Le le – Breakfast
Mr. Supreme – Love Exchange

Max’s Gallery Session –

Danny Massure – Sweet Miss Rae (Tal M. Klein Remix)
Space People – All Night Long
Dam Funk – Sureshot Symphony’s Galactic Disco Fun
Erik Rico – Forever
Skymark – Disturbed Sky Theme
Modo Solar – Natural (Patchworks remix)
Star Quality and Class – Gotta Dude on the Side, Girl
Seven Dub feat. Lone Ranger and Angelique – It Doesn’t Matter
Sofia Rubina – Hello Hello (Sofia’s Skit)
Kissey Asplund – With You

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The Hump






The best DJ couple in NY, DJ Lindsey and Myles, host a weekly party called the Hump, of classics from 88 – 98. Also each week the graphic designer extrordanaire, Grotesk, illustrates a new flyer. Hopefully we’ll be having the Hump visit LA soon and maybe an exhibition of Grotesk at the Gallery. Until then here is THE HUMP MIX by Lindsey and Myles, along with Grotesk’s Flyers (above).

Small Talk

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Small Talk tonight —

1st hour free House Vodka, Rum, Gin and Tequila
Special Martini will be Pomegranate – $7 ALL NIGHT
For girls FREE Pomegranate martini if they arrive before 11pm

Come lounge at the Best non-Hollywood night in Hollywood.

The Standard Hollywood,
The Purple Lounge
8300 Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Barkley L. Hendricks





An amazing painter, Barkley L. Hendricks, has a show at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, don’t mind the voice over, the website and artwork look great. Have A look HERE.

small talk April 14th

Small talk

Tonight it’s Jasi’s BIRTHDAY party !!!!! WHOOWHOO!!

FREE
Vodka and Budweiser until 11pm

SPECIALS ALL NIGHT R…
Raspberry Sex Cocktail on the Rox
&Dancing Lady Martini

Both are $9 ALL NIGHT

Heineken Light $5 ALL NIGHT