Video from the amazing ‘Primos!’ opening featuring the legendary Arturo Sandoval, Andy García and band. We teamed up with our friends Jah Mama Sauce, AwakeNY & Bebito’s to celebrate LatinX Heritage Month. What an amazing night! 💃🏽❤️🔥 Last weekend of Exhibit. Open 1 – 6pm. Please pass by.
“As We Are” is a group exhibition curated by Mtendere Mandowa at HVW8 Gallery Los Angeles featuring artists Misa Chhan, Kishi Yuma, Jeannie Kwon, Leland Jackson and Mtendere Mandowa. Live painting by Mtendere Mandowa, artist interviews, and music by Teebs and Ahnnu (Brainfeeder). From the livestream of the exhibition opening on January 30, 2021. ArtistRun TV (ARTV) is an ongoing series about artists and programmed by artists.
Anxiety 2 is a group exhibition at HVW8 Los Angeles, featuring work by: Snake Chime Zen, Jessica Williams, Laura Watters, Julia Thompson, Conrad Ruiz, Jools Rothblat, Hannah Lupton Reinhard, Brendan Lynch, Justin Long, Sandy Kim, Jessica Kennedy, Elias Kafouros, Aaron Elvis Jupin, Jack Herzog, Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack, Joshua Elan, Brendan Donnelly, Alberto Cuadros, Andrew Brischler, Mario Ayala, Adam Alessi and Steve Aldahl.
Portion of proceeds will be donated to the National Alliance on Mental Illness
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HVW8 Gallery Berlin is pleased to present cross-side crystal; hybrid orbital, a group exhibition curated by Irene Carbonari exploring experimental forces around the idea of the ‘hybrid’. Bringing together the works of eleven contemporary artists from Germany, France, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Russia, the show evokes notions of merging the human, the machine, and the natural organism. The varied presence of hybrid forms in the works are embedded within the complexities and nuances of lived experiences, creating visual odes to the eternal mutability of expression.
In cross-side crystal; hybrid orbital, the works straddle multiple states or slip away from direct categorization, and are characterized by the merging of mediums, including digital, light and sculptural installations, paintings, ceramics, and augmented reality. The works reveal the destruction and reckoning to come from the rise and proliferation of networks and connections within our material world, and the human drive for production and so-called progress.
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.
This Friday (Sept 25th) at 8pm PST LIVE BROADCAST with Ty and Denee Seegull @tysegall from HVW8 Hollywood. Also performing @red_theme … part of Public Access exhibition.
Programming for the Public Access exhibition continues with livestream Episode 2 of ARTV, featuring a night with artist Nikkolos Mohammed and exploration of the hidden social ideas of sport and its relationship to politics and religion. Delving into topics such as the juxtaposition of sport uniforms to religious attire and sport teams to socialist beliefs, Mohammed is accompanied by Burning Benjamins and Lowkey Hope to create an experience around the concept of “Artist as Athlete”. Visual and sound installations are used to help viewers explore breaking the division of Artist and Athlete. Episode 2 also includes a Q&A with Roy Rollins and music performances by Snowsa and Deadbrains, and animation from Electric Circus.
ARTV is a community broadcasting platform generating content and funding for and by artists, local community leaders, and grass roots organizations.
Livestreamed from HVW8 Gallery Hollywood, August 28, 2020 HVW8 Gallery presents Public Access, an exhibition made for and influenced by the COVID era.
Combining elements of fine art, music and technology, the exhibition is accessible via ARTV (Artist Run TV), a platform for Los Angeles based artists and activists to exhibit, engage and educate a global online community. The opening of the exhibition on August 28th was livestreamed on HVW8.com and showcases artwork from the exhibition, interviews with participating artists Senay Kenfe, Angela Nguyen, and Nikkolos Mohammed, DJ sets by Pubes, Zuri Adia, and Senay Kenfe as well as participation from independent local businesses such as Salon Benjamin. The exhibition and programming highlights urgent issues such as police reform and systemic inequities in education to criminal justice. A
RTV will livestream programming for Public Access throughout the run of the exhibition. For more information, please visit HVW8.com and @hvw8gallery. ARTV is a community broadcasting platform generating content and funding for and by artists, local community leaders, and grass roots organizations. Public Access features artists Laura Watters (@laurawatters), Adam Tullie (@adamtullie), Angela Nguyen (@pile_height), Nikkolos Mohammed (@honorablemohammed), Senay Kenfe (@senaykenfe), Jerry Hsu (@internetfamous) and Alex Cassaniti (@alexandracassaniti) with curation by Mattea Perrotta, Alberto Cuadros and Tyler Gibney.
ARTV (Artist Run TV) and HVW8 Gallery presents Liv.e and here new album called “Couldn’t Wait To Tell You…” broadcasting live on Badu World Market this July 30th, 2020 at 7pm PST.
New #screen2screen interview with the great @senaykenfe …. Senay gives us his thoughts, perspective and understanding of what’s been going on, how we got here and what to expect. Thank you Senay … and music in episode courtesy of @blvckspvdemusic
Senay Kenfe is a photographer, musician, writer and community organizer native to Long Beach, California. Over the last 15 years he’s collaborated with artists around the world as a member of local hip hop act The Natives, as well as worked on projects from documenting the graffiti scene in Brazil and Egypt to leading clean water filtration projects in Ethiopia.
Israeli American Visual Artist Navot Miller talking about sources of inspiration and daily routine in days of limited movement in his Artist Community Home—Berlin.
American painter based in East Los Angeles, discussing getting inspiration from his neighborhood, giving a tour of his home studio and current work, and perspectives on the virus’ impact on local immigrant communities and the artworld.
Jan is a self taught artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Meditating on the intersections of drawing, painting, and collage Jan uses his practice as a means to create a specific brand of dark comedy. The images that arise from his studio collide seemingly disparate sources to form works that simultaneously contain rejection and harmony.
Artist / musician / comic book writer Negashi Armada, discussing how the current events inform his science fiction narratives and perspectives from his cottage studio in Boyle Heights, California.
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.
Images from her current exhibition ‘Rituals’ with Raj Debah. Though the Los Angeles and Berlin galleries are currently closed, exhibition installation images and artist statements are still available to view online.
We’re also exploring ways to support our international community of artists through upcoming virtual exhibits, artist talks, studio visits and performances broadcast from our Los Angeles and Berlin spaces (as permitted by local order).
We feel now more than ever artists must come together in solidarity and support each other through these difficult times. Art is important as ever providing relief, reflection, insight, commentary and sometimes a distraction in these unprecedented circumstances. HVW8 Gallery is dedicated to continue to be a platform and vehicle for the international artist community.
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From Hollywood to Worldwide. A few of the musicians that performed during this year’s ‘Brave New Views’ series.
Listen to complete series on NTS (or Search HVW8 on NTS.live), additional photos from the events can be viewed here.
There’s also a host of ‘Brave New Views‘ conversations with HVW8 Gallery’s Tyler Gibney now available for download. Hear discussions about art, music and exhibits with Kilo Kish, Lisa Leone, Eric Elms, Peter Beste, DJ Ross One, Calmatic and Steven Traylor.
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
