Screen 2 Screen – Artist Stay At Home Interview Series

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 8: Felipe Yung aka FLIP

This week we talk with artist Flip in São Paulo to get a perspective from Brazil.

Felipe Yung aka FLIP is an artist from São Paulo that mastered his calligraphy all over the city landscape. He was one of the first graffiti writers in Brazil to draw characters without letters in the streets and work with posters and stickers.

His influences include tags, pixação, Japanese calligraphy (Shodo) and print (Ukiyo-e), native trees, fashion fetish and camouflage.

You can see his art in galleries and in the streets of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Madrid, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Moscow, London, Paris, Osaka and Tokyo.

 

Episode 7: Jaybo Monk

Jaybo (1968) is a runaway, setting out and wandering along in a physical as well as in a creative sense.In his youth, he ran away from his home in southern France, settling in Kreuzberg, Berlin at the beginning of the 1980s.

When he founded the streetwear label ‘Irie Daily’ and the cultural magazine ‘Style’ at the beginning of the 1990s, his influence on Berlin’s youth culture and fashion scene could be clearly seen. Even today, urban subculture is the driving force behind his artistic activities.

Nailing down Jaybo’s work to a specific artistic genre seems nearly impossible in the face of the creative impulsiveness and eager experimentation that provide the key to understanding the allure of his work; work which meaningfully negotiates between the genres of pop art, graffiti and street art, and which also unselfconsciously contain implicit elements of Dadaism and Surrealism.

 

Episode 6: Cécile di Giovanni 

Cécile di Giovanni lives and works in Paris, France. Her areas of expertise cover creative, artistic direction and set design. She mainly uses sculpture, installations, and performance as mediums forplastic expression. Among her close collaborators, we find names such as Virgil Abloh, French artist Mohamed Bourouissa, and singer-musicians Jagwar Twin, Mathilde Fernandez and Yseult.

Artist Link :

ceciledigiovanni.com

@ceciledigiovanni

Episode 5: Jangate Wood

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.

@jangatewood

 

Episode 4: Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.

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.

@_alfonsogonzalezjr

Artist Links:

https://www.alfonsogonzalezjr.com/

Artsy link:

https://www.artsy.net/show/hvw8-art-plus-design-gallery-screen-2-screen-online-initiative

 

Episode 3: Navot Miller

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.

Artist links:

www.navotmiller.com

www.instagram.com/navotmiller

Artsy link: https://www.artsy.net/show/hvw8-art-plus-design-gallery-screen-2-screen-online-initiative

 

Episode 2: Negashi Armada

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.

 

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.

Artist Link :

@tylergibney