Brave New Views – Miami
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
About Brave New Views
HVW8 Gallery and NTS Radio present a 6-part series in 2019 entitled Brave New Views – a multi-faceted project that includes an art exhibition, event with live music and DJs, and a corresponding interview podcast with the presenting visual artist. The exhibitions and events have included artists and musical acts including Kilo Kish, Shafiq Husayn, Black Party, Black Nile, Charlie Ahearn, Calmatic, Peter Beste, Battlecat, Budgie, Lisa Leone and many more.
Listen to the Podcasts
Hosted by HVW8 Gallery’s Tyler Gibney, the Brave New Views podcast series will be available from Dec. 5th, 2019 for listening on NTS.live and downloading on iTunes, Spotify and Google. The podcast series includes interviews with artists Kilo Kish, Calmatic and Steven Traylor, Lisa Leone, Eric Elms, and Peter Beste.
About The Artists
Calmatic is a self taught filmmaker, historian and artist living and working in Los Angeles. He discovered his passion for telling stories at a young age. As an artist, he strives to humanize others’ unique experiences while stretching the limits of his viewers’ reality and highlighting the beauty in the mundane.
Steven Traylor is an artist and photographer living and working in Los Angeles. His work implements photography, collage, text and mixed media as medium to interrogate profound characteristics of his childhood and South Los Angeles’ black community–– specifically, the complexities of race, sexuality, and pride.
Charlie Ahearn has been involved in Hip Hop since the late 70’s, beginning with Super 8 kung fu movie The Deadly Art of Survival. Working with Fred Brathwaite he directed Wild Style which was released worldwide in 1983. Ahearn made two Hip Hop books Yes Yes Y’all, and Wild Style The Sampler. Ahearn produced a radio series with Hip Hop artists such as Rammellzee and Biz Markie artonair.com and completed Hip Hop short films such as The 5 Grand Masters, Dirt Style and Dancing Industry.
His feature documentary Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer was released through Oscilliscope. Ahearn recently did a one person art exhibition Scratch Ecstasy at PPOW gallery and participated with silkscreen paintings at Beyond The Streets LA 2018 and NY2019. Ahearn resides in New York.
Lisa Leone Born in the Bronx and raised throughout New York City, Lisa Leone has been surrounded by hip-hop culture for virtually her entire life. By the late eighties, as a widely published photographer, she was in a unique position to capture a behind the-scenes perspective on the spirit of collaboration that fueled hip-hop’s early artistic triumphs. “To see a young Nas in the studio with Q-Tip, Premier and Large Professor was not only inspiring,” she reflects on one of her candid photos, “it is ‘the decisive moment’.”
Lisa began her career shooting musicians as well as personalities like Debi Mazar and Spike Lee. She worked for British Vogue and for VIBE, where she was a contributing photographer and columnist for two years. While shooting stills on a music video the director asked Lisa to shoot B roll; so began her career as a cinematographer. A few years later, Lisa began work on Stanley Kubrick’s last film, ‘Eyes Wide Shut’. Kubrick quickly became her mentor, with their shared Bronx history an important facet. Lisa continues to make her own work, and is currently Vice President of Artistic Programs at the National YoungArts Foundation
Kilo Kish Robinson has been making genre-bending, experimental music projects under the moniker Kilo Kish since 2012. Starting first as a student of design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, Kish has been heralded for her cross-medium approach to creating music. Her work has been reviewed by the New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Vogue, W, Fader, and The Village Voice. Kish released her debut full length LP “Reflections in Real Time (RRT)” in 2016 through her own label, kisha soundscape + audio (ksa). She is currently living and working in Los Angeles, CA.
Ross Schwartzman aka DJ Ross One is a Cincinnati born DJ and collector of all things hip-hop. Armed with a MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, he promptly chose DJing as a full time career and now resides between Los Angeles and New York City. A self-proclaimed “rap nerd”, Ross has been collecting hip-hop ephemera and memorabilia since age 15. He is the author of “Rap Tees: A Collection of Hip-Hop T-Shirts 1980-1999”.
Eric Elms is an artist and designer living and working 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.
Photographer Peter Beste has been documenting subcultures for over 20 years. His book titled Defenders of the Faith, is a photographic treatment of traditional heavy metal culture and dress code – distilled through fervor and time to an almost sacred object – the battle vest. Often referred to as a Kutten (German for monk’s robe), the vest has become a practice of identity. In Beste’s own words, “for many, it shows how “true” one is by how authentic their patches are, which festivals they have attended, or which bands you got to see way back when. It is an object that gains in value as it deteriorates, and is pretty much never bought or sold. You have to create your own.”
