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Cody Hudson Opening Night – Berlin
Thank you to everyone that came out to Cody Hudson’s opening at HVW8 Berlin. More Photos HERE
The Art of a Political Revolution – Austin Feb. 12th, 2016
Bernie Sanders 2016
Presents
“The Art of a Political Revolution”
featuring both artists and musicians
to inspire change throughout the nation.
Featuring a Compilation of Acclaimed Artistic Works
Inspired by the Political Landscape
Opening Reception in Austin, TX
Friday, February 12th from 7:00pm – 11:00pm
RSVP Here
Group Show Runs from
Saturday, February 13 – Sunday, February 14
Daily from 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Future exhibitions and locations include:
Boston, MA and New York, NY
#ArtistsForBernieSanders
Bernie Sanders 2016 with HVW8 Art + Design Gallery and Creative Cabal have united to launch a national group art exhibition which will open and kick off in Hyde Park focused around critical issues affecting our country. An opening reception at 4115 Guadalupe St., Austin, TX 78751 will launch “The Art of a Political Revolution” in conjunction with the official Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign on Friday, February 12 with an opening reception from 7:00pm – 11:00pm.
Participating artists include: Aaron Draplin, Amanda Marsalis, Atiba Jefferson, Brian Lotti, Bryan Blue, Byron O’Neill, Charlie Becker, CLAW MONEY, Cody Hudson, Dan Buller, Dave Kloc, Donny Miller, Dug Nap, Dylan Fant, Ellen Voorheis, Erin Garcia, Greg Auerbach, Hayley Starr, Heidi Hartwig, Jackson Tupper, Jamal Gunn Becker, Jeremyville, Jermaine Rogers, Josh Maupin, Kozyndan, Michael Vincent Laviolette, Mtendere Mandowa ‘Teebs’, Nathan Bell, Patrick Martinez, Richard J. Oliver, Ron English, Saelee Oh, Obey Giant, Steven Arroyo, Sven Barth, Tyler Benjamin Gibney, Zoetica Ebb.
Music by following artists: Ernest Gonzales, DJ Dangit, Black Spade, DJ Jester the Filipino Fist, DJ Manny, soundfounder, DJ No Kid$, DJ Chicken George, Matt Sonzala.
Kicking off in Los Angeles earlier this year, “The Art of a Political Revolution” is a touring exhibition featuring both artists and musicians seeking to inspire change throughout the nation. Future exhibitions and locations include: Boston on February 19 – 21 and New York City, NY, February 24 – 28 2016.
Senator Sanders has started what he calls a “political revolution,” driving one of the most successful grassroots political campaigns of our time. As Sanders continues to force the debate on critical issues affecting all Americans, artists are sure to play a crucial role in getting people to engage, learn and become inspired. Income inequality, climate change, racial justice, immigration, and affordable education, are just some of the hot button issues that serve as the inspiration for these works from both international and locally acclaimed artists included in the show. Limited prints of artwork will be sold at the exhibition, the proceeds of which will be donated to Bernie Sanders 2016. Artist Jermaine Rogers will be present to sign limited edition prints from 8-9 pm.
The Art of a Political Revolution – Artists for Bernie Sanders
Friday, February 12 from 7:00pm – 11:00pm
#ArtistsForBernieSanders
Open Daily – Free Admission
Saturday, February 13th – Sunday, February 14 2016
12:00pm – 6:00pm
4115 Guadalupe St.
Austin, TX 78751
For Media Inquiries Contact:
Jennifer Gross / Julia Axelrod
Evolutionary Media Group
323.658.8700 (o) / 323.646.8412 (c)
Jennifer@emgpr.com / Julia@emgpr.com
David Bowie
David Bowie memorial on HVW8 LA.
Jean Jullien’s Raw Reaction
Jean Jullien Raw reaction to the tragedy became the symbol for peace and solidarity in Paris.
Read more :
New York Times – A ‘Raw’ Reaction Becomes a Symbol of Solidarity
NPR – Circle Of Hope: How A Raw Reaction Became A Sign Of Solidarity
Los Angeles Gallery Appointments
The HVW8 Los Angeles Gallery is open by appointment only until December 2nd, then will resume regular hours.
If you would like to view and / or purchase artwork from previous exhibitions please email info@hvw8.com and arrange an appointment.
Thank-you
Paul Chan – Berlin
HVW8 Berlin presents:
Paul Chan’s ‘Off Safety’
The photography exhibition ‘Off Safety’ is a brief moment in time of highly influential musicians, Paul Chan captured this movement in the midst of a DIY ethos and aesthetic, representing the later part of the golden era of hip hop.
Opening: Oct 8th, 2015
7-10pm
HVW8 Gallery
Linienstr. 161
Berlin
Fresh food by Tiny’s Pizza
Beer by San Miguel
support by adidas
Paul Chan available for interviews
Jenne Grabowski Gallery management
jenne@hvw8.com
Betül Uyar
Production & PR
betueluyar@googlemail.com
Linienstraße 161 10115 Berlin
More opening night photos here
Noah Davis 1983 – 2015
Thoughts to the family of long time friend and collaborator Noah Davis on his passing this weekend.
We were lucky to know Noah for the past many years and to witness his amazing rise and success. His exhibition ‘Imitation of Wealth‘ is currently on display at MOCA.
Pictured at the HVW8 Gallery in Los Angeles during his 2010 exhibition ‘Look Mom, No Talent‘ with Ulysses Pizarro and Darnell Prince. The trio were collectively known as the Inner City Avant-Garde.
Noah was an amazing artist and soul. He will be dearly missed.
Here are more articles on Noah.
Noah Davis, 32, Artist and Founder of Underground Museum in Los Angeles, Dies – NYTimes
Noah Davis dies at 32; L.A. painter and installation artist – LA Times
From Feb Mag by Noah Davis, 2007
Early Painting ‘Pulp’ by Noah Davis, 2007
Tribute piece currently on HVW8 Gallery Los Angeles.
photo Tyler Gibney
MAUVAISE RÉPUTATION
JEAN ANDRÉ
MAUVAISE RÉPUTATION
August 2nd – August 31st, 2015
Jean André’s “gentleman art” balances saucy and minimalistic representations of women, creating images that read as both gentlemen’s pulp illustration and satirical tableaux. His influences range from Matisse to Gainsbourg to Drake as well as erotic magazines from the 80’s.
For Mauvaise Réputation, Jean partners with Paris based tattoo artist Tarik aka The Crayoner. яндекс. The exhibition is inspired by old tattoos made as tributes for beloved women and ‘mauvais garçons’ inked drawings.
Friday July 31st and Saturday August 1st will be dedicated exclusively to tattoo sessions with The Crayoner & Jean André at HVW8 Gallery Berlin.
Tattoos by appointment only – to book please contact: jean@hvw8.com
The exhibition opens Sunday August 2nd, 1 – 6pm with an outdoor barbecue at HVW8 Gallery Berlin with San Miguel Beer. A limited number of hand-drawn black carbon on recycled paper posters and printed cards will be available for sale. Exhibition runs through August 31st.
HVW8 Gallery Berlin
Linienstraße 10115 Berlin Mitte
Brian Lotti Install Shots and Pieces Available Online
BRIAN LOTTI
ECHO PARK
June 19th – August 2nd, 2015
please email info@hvw8.com for further inquiries
artwork also available here.
Brian Roettinger – Book Signing at HVW8 Berlin
In support of his current exhibition, 8 Announcements, Brian Roettinger will be signing books and catalogs at HVW8 Berlin, this Thursday, June 11th, from 6 – 8pm.
Books and Catalogs will be available for sale in a limited supply.
Please RSVP here
Brian Roettinger 8 Announcements opening Los Angeles and Berlin
Berlin
Los Angeles
Berlin Opening
Currently on Display at HVW8 Gallery’s in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Please email info(at)hvw8.com for further information.
HVW8 Los Angeles
661 N Spaulding Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 1 – 6pm
HVW8 Berlin
HVW8 Berlin, Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 1 – 5 pm
Brian Roettinger – 8 Announcements – May 8th
Janette Beckman – New York Times
1980s, Janette Beckman, an expat punk photographer from London, amassed a portfolio of burgeoning New York rap acts like the Cold Crush Brothers, Big Daddy Kane and Public Enemy. It was a labor of love for Ms. Beckman, who had visited New York a few years earlier and was so entranced by the beginnings of hip-hop that she never left. She later collected those images in a book, but she challenges you to find a copy of it today.
“We couldn’t sell it to anyone,” Ms. Beckman said. “Back then, there was not one thought in my mind hip-hop would become this massive thing.”
Was she wrong.
Ms. Beckman’s early portraits are now on display in “Hip-Hop Revolution” at the Museum of the City of New York, alongside the work of Joe Conzo Jr. and Martha Cooper, photographers whose images from the 1970s through the 1990s document parties and dances that began in empty lots and playgrounds and went on to become part of global youth culture.
Full article Here
Currently on Display
Jean Jullien – Poor Traits Opens March 27th at 7pm.
Jean Jullien – Poor Traits Opens March 27th at 7pm.
email info@hvw8.com for further details.
Atiba Jefferson: Lonely Wanderer – HVW8 Opening Hong Kong
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.
Sergej Vutuc & Rich Jacobs, Agathe Zaerpour & Philippine Chaumont Opens March 12th, Berlin
SERGEJ VUTUC & RICH JACOBS: I DON’T HAVE TO KNOW YOU TO WAVE TO YOU,
AGATHE ZAERPOUR & PHILIPPINE CHAUMONT: UZURI-UBICHI
March 12th, – April 4th, 2015
Opening Thursday, March 12th at 7 – 10pm
HVW8 Berlin
Linienstraße 161
10115 Berlin
Germany
More photos on HVW8 Berlin Facebook
Madsaki Opening Night
Thank-you to everyone that came out to the opening night of Madsaki’s ‘Please Don’t Spit On The Painting’.
Also thank-you to Asahi Beer for the support.
More photos of the opening night on HVW8’s Facebook page.
Please email info(at)hvw8.com for any artwork inquires.
Parra at Kunsthal, Rotterdam
Congratulations to long time HVW8 Friend and Artist, Parra, on his new 10 year retrospective exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam Museum. Opening this Saturday, March 7, 2015. Amazing work!
Madsaki opens Feb. 27th, 7 – 10pm.
PLEASE DON’T SPIT ON THE PAINTING
February 27th – March 22nd, 2015
opening 7 – 10pm, RSVP at : rsvp@HVW8.com
Atiba Jefferson Interview
Interview with Atiba Jefferson by Chris Danforth.
I first heard the name Atiba Jefferson in relation to the skate scene in Los Angeles. Over the years, Jefferson has had access to a who’s who of not only skating, but music, sports, pop culture and more. Whether sitting in on a Henry Rollins photoshoot and quietly clicking the shutter through a long lens, or being commissioned to snap portraits of the Jumpman himself, Atiba has accumulated a wealth of experience during his tenure as a photographer and multi-creative. When speaking with Atiba, there was a lot to cover, as you can’t place his work into only one silo. In this sense, he seems to be a caricature of the modern creative; being well-versed in multiple creative mediums.
How did the HVW8 exhibition in Berlin come to fruition?
It came together at the last minute. I was in Berlin, working with Oakley on a new project, traveling with Sean Malto and Eric Koston, and they asked us to come over for a sales meeting. Tyler asked me to do it, and I was enthusiastic about the project, especially because I was already there.
So you knew him from LA?
Yeah, that’s the one gallery I show at in LA. So I’ve done a couple of shows at his gallery in LA and stuff like that.
Do you have other relationships with galleries like that in the States where you only want to show at one particular gallery?
I don’t regularly show my work but I do have a friend whose group show I’m always trying to be a part of. And then smaller stuff but I only started doing solo shows after I met Tyler.
What about the name of the exhibition? Could you explain that as well?
Titles are always a little bit tricky to come by. I’ve been listening to “So Long, Lonesome,” this Explosions in the Sky song. They’re an instrumental band – pretty big in the U.S. They’re one of my favorite bands actually. I saw them on their first tour in 2000 or 2001, and they were playing to some four people. Now they play huge festivals, in front of eight to ten thousand people at a time. The funny thing is, I was backstage at the Fuck Yeah festival in LA, and the dudes in the band were passing me. They called out to me because they knew who I was. I turned around and recognized them as well. After that we became really good friends.
Read More HERE
Atiba Jefferson ‘So Long, Lonesome’ Opens at HVW8 Berlin
Photographer Atiba Jefferson presents his first European exhibition ‘So Long, Lonesome’ at the HVW8 Berlin gallery.
“This show is special because it’s the first time showing a solo show in Europe. I have shown a lot of my older stuff before but for this show I really wanted to show a good amount of current stuff. I’m a big fan of the things that I shoot, I feel that all the people I shoot are not alone in their drive to do great things and they all are amazing individuals from all different walks of life. I’m lucky to photograph them. ”
– Atiba Jefferson
Atiba Jefferson (b. 1976) is a Los Angeles based photographer. Internationally known for his sports, music, lifestyle, and skateboarding photography, his work can be seen in a wide variety of publications and commercial projects.
HVW8 Berlin
Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin, Germany
with support from adidas
Kevin Lyons / HVW8 Miami Mural Installation and Event
HVW8 Pop Up at Art Basel Miami
No New Neon
HVW8 Gallery Pop Up featuring an Art Installation with Jean André
w/ Guest appearance of Kevin Lyons
supported by adidas
Saturday Dec 6th, 7 pm – 12am
7401a NW Miami CT., Little River, FL 33150
HVW8 x adidas x Kevin Lyons x Jean André
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 10, 2014
HVW8 Gallery and adidas Release New Designs By Kevin Lyons and Jean André
Launch Party in LA at HVW8 on Saturday, November 15, 2014
(Los Angeles) Celebrating the intersection of fashion, art and music, adidas and HVW8 announce the release of new artwork on Seely and Adi-Ease styles from two of the design world’s most inspiring minds: Kevin Lyons and Jean André.
On Saturday, November 15, HVW8’s West Hollywood gallery will kick off an international series of events celebrating these collaborations with appearances, artwork, a display of the four new shoes from the two artists and a special music guest.
Kevin Lyons
“I wanted to create bright, colorful all-over prints. But making sure that they are still very wearable…” says Lyons, “With the Seeley, I wanted to experiment with a lot of the watercolor on paper backgrounds that I have been doing over the past couple of years. I played around with very saturated color mixing that created an analog, thermodynamic Predator-like pattern. I like the moody blue and rich tones that some of the saturations and bleeding make.”
With the Ease, Lyons saw an opportunity to use some of the color fill drips from his larger mural paintings where he often uses sponges and water-based paint to loosely fill his Monster characters. The drips then often make for interesting compositions of drops and splatters.
“I loved the idea of doing a white shoe that then had the watercolor on it…But it is not meant to look like literal paint splatters – more a fabric design that was made up of those drops and splatters.”
Jean André
Speaking on his Seeley design, Jean says, “I always wear full color shoes. I’m not into many colors and many shapes. I wanted a special product that looks like something I would wear. I figured out that if you were to stand in a pool of black ink with your white shoes, then it could be a cool look and feel.”
For his Adi-Ease, Jean looked at an all-over pattern of more sensual shapes and the formal similarities between leaves and women’s lips. Jean adds, “I thought that everybody would expect me to draw girls on the shoes, but I don’t really love figurative patterns. I did, however, want a thugged-out black and white pair that I’d be proud to rock, so I added the girl inside as a signature, last touch.
The November 15 event at HVW8 Art + Design will be followed by an installation at Art Week in Miami from December 3 – 7 and special pop-up galleries to follow in Europe. Both artists and HVW8 want each launch date to be a full-on event. Expect live-paintings, large scale murals, and plenty of great live music.
Saturday, November 15th 2014 – 7PM – 10PM
Exhibition runs through December 28, 2014
HVW8 Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave Los Angeles, CA 90036
RSVP : rsvp@hvw8.com
Currently on Display
Francesco Giusti ‘Caribbean’ on disply until November 8th.
email info@hvw8.com for inquiries
Tonight Francesco Giusti ‘Caribbean’ opens tonight
A ribbon in green, yellow and red is strung with Junior written in 70’s bubble font, as memorial. The epitaph commemorates the death of a man who contributes a meaningful part of the neighborhood, a supermarket and a garden. Yet these angel investors, are commonly, and most plausibly, drug pushers. They make their money through crime, yet this same cash funds community based projects. These are the issues of moral ambiguity that underlie Francesco Giusti’s images. This image that at first glance, holds a degree of violence, or one dimensional sort of ‘slummy-ness’ or criminality, reveals that sort of duality of urban life in the Caribbean. That somewhere between crime is an economy, a community based system of justice that is as easily codified.
Broken down cars are overridden with foliage from the tropics. Palm trees commonly associated with paradise are wilderness, unhampered. Where utopia and dystopia exist in a zone with an unrestrained rawness. This sort of cultural hybridity is often the remnants of European hegemony where it’s post-colonial history is traced through the in-the-street as a playboy icon, through the print heavy patterns of the dancehall queens, or in the particular way a woman poses, hips out, in essence of the dancehall attitude.
The images show that these vestiges of colonialism are still very much at conflict by threatening local heritage or progressing the flattening, or globalization of culture. How a gift store grass skirt, and machete may seem like a costume hodgepodge, actually represents the struggle for an indigenous past to serve under western influence. That in order to preserve deity of Ogoun, locals developed visual strategies to incorporate catholic imagery to escape Spanish catholic effacement. These gestures of dress or, markers of identity, are often expressions of a conflicted relationship between indigenous preservation and steps toward modernity- a syncretism for folkloric survival. Mickey deviously summons images of candy and popsicles as if to demonstrate a fantasy, suspended just out of reach.
His images have romance that do not ignore the social realism, but instead, posit these factors that are generally considered to be a-civil, as civilizing in this particular socio-economic system. The people in Giusti’s photographs reveal a location and time that is constantly caught between an ideal that is constantly present, and remotely attainable.
Recipient of photography awards, Francesco Giusti is a freelance photographer who has primarily worked in Africa, the Mediterranean, Central and South America. He has exhibited internationally in France, Italy, Colombia, Germany, and the US. This is his first solo exhibition at HVW8.
More photos on HVW8 Facebook
Francesco Giusti ‘CARIBBEAN’ Opens this Saturday, 7 – 10 pm
Please RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com
PEOPLE: ERIN GARCIA
Interview with Erin D. Garcia from Monster Children
Aaron Farley sat down with California artist Erin Garcia to ask about his creative evolution, and his new exhibition, 5 Shapes In 6 Colors, which runs Aug 16th – September 14th. You’ve still got plenty of time to go check it out at HVW8 Gallery, 611 N. Spaulding, Los Angeles. Do yourself a favor and hop to it.
Interview and photography by Aaron Farley
AF: Talk us through the progression of murals that you’ve done.
EG: I think the first one was the standard vertical gallery, and the piece I did for the solo show at This Gallery, and then East of Western, and then The Ace, (Palm Springs), which was a huge leap.
Why was it a huge leap?
It was a huge leap because 1) it was multiple colors, and then 2) because it was massive. It was 50 feet by 2 stories. So before that the one at East of Western was the largest and that was 10 x 8 ft.