TBT (Dr Dre 2)
Hassan Rahim
from Distillations, HVW8 Gallery, 2014
Parra
Exterior of HVW8 Gallery
From Same Old Song, HVW8 Gallery, 2014
Janette Beckman
Installation photo
From Punks, Rap and Gangs, HVW8 Gallery, 2014
Jean André
Fuck You Tyler
2014
Jean André
Marie 89
2014
Justin R. Saunders
via the Wushipu Oil Painting Village in Xiamen, China.
From JJJJound Correspondence, HVW8 Gallery, 2013
Parra
Betrayed
From Same Old Song, HVW8 Gallery, 2014
Parra
Lunch Beers
From Same Old Song, HVW8 Gallery, 2014
E.S.G., Missouri City, 2005
Peter Beste
From Houston Raps, HVW8 Gallery 2014
New article on HVW8 Gallery and Summer School from Nowness.com
Summer School: HVW8 Gallery
Art Lessons and Dance Sessions in the Californian Desert
From the brazen imagery of Amsterdam’s Parra to the internet-inspired visuals of the Kanye West-affiliated Canadian artist JJJJound, LA gallery HVW8 cultivates an international collision of pop culture and graphic design in a contemporary art setting. “We allow someone that might not be familiar with the artists we exhibit to see them in a lineage of El Lissitzky or Roy Lichtenstein, who to me are examples of fine graphic artists,” says HVW8 co-founder Tyler Gibney. This month the gallerist took psychedelic artists Erin D. Garcia, Teebs, Jean André and Alvaro “Freegums” Ilizarbe on a desert road trip for Summer School, an art and music weekender at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs featuring sun-kissed West Coast bands such as dance-punk duo De Lux. “I grew up with a Bauhaus education and I love the idea of artists teaching and exposing their craft,” says Gibney of the hands-on experience of Summer School’s workshops. Founded in 2011 by LA new music champions School Night and the Ace Hotel, the micro-festival’s inaugural line-up included cult mobile letterpress studio Movable Type, and Chris Johanson of the Mission School art movement. “I approach my drawings as a viewer, I want to understand why a choice is made and the reason behind it,” says Garcia, who took on collage class duties while Cali locals Teebs went cosmic with Japanese tie-dye alongside Ilizarbe’s infinity patterns, and Paris’s André showcased poster techniques. “I think there’s an elegance in a simple idea that’s communicated well.”