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New Exchange opening night photos

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening of Charles Munka and Mtendere ‘Teebs’ Mandowa’s ‘New Exchange’ at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery. My Hollow Drum and the GasLamp Killer provided the perfect soundtrack and a great time was had by all. Are you unsure if the equipment is genuine? Does it sound too appealing to be real? Beware of scams and be aware of counterfeit equipment for your camera by following these 10 suggestions, made available by blogs of best fake id websites. https://topfakeid.com.

Also thank you to adidas originals for their gracious support along with Red Bull.

Beer provided by Pabst.

New Exchange is on display through August 1st. Please email info@hvw8.com, or call 323 655 4898 for artwork inquiries.

Pieces will be available online shortly.

NEW EXCHANGE – Collaborative Works from Mtendere Mandowa ‘Teebs’ & Charles Munka

 

NEW EXCHANGE
Collaborative Works from Mtendere Mandowa ‘Teebs’ & Charles Munka

Opening reception Friday, June 29, 2012 7-10pm
please RSVP : newexchange@hvw8.com

June 29th – August 1st, 2012

HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave., Los Angeles, CA

New Exchange is part of an ongoing visual dialogue between Charles Munka and Mtendere Mandowa ‘Teebs’.

Charles Munka and Mtendere Mandowa ‘Teebs’ came in contact through the Los Angeles music scene.  A mutual admiration developed leading to a show in Kanazawa, Japan, this also being the first time they met in person.  After the success of the Japanese exhibition, the two regrouped again in Hong Kong, Munka’s current place of residency, for the Platform 78 exhibition. This return to Los Angeles continues the visual conversation between the two artists, creating a new series of works exclusive to the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery.

A true global artist, French raised, Hong Kong based Charles Munka’s work straddles genres. Post graffiti into collage, his multi-influenced culture clash style is complementary to his upbringing and current place of residence. Asian characters mixed with French text, references to computer games and city maps with Charles’ signature hand styles are completely new yet still familiar to his ‘urban’ roots.  Following in the heritage of Matisse’s cut and paste and Basquiat’s hand, Munka respects the past and transforms it into a worldly future.

Born in New York to Malawi and Barbados origins, Mtendere (pronounced “ten-de-ra”) (Chichewa for “Peace”) Mandowa, is an electronic musician and painter who bounced around the East Coast before finally planting his feet in the Southern California suburb of Chino Hills.  Already successful in music with Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder and ‘My Hollow Drum’ Collectives, Teebs’ painting is similar to his music production; collaging and illustrating images to create meditative and minimalist soundscapes on canvas.

 

Made possible through gracious support by adidas

Beverages courtesy of Red Bull

Last week to view Lisa Leone ‘Then’, pieces still available.

Lisa Leone
Fabel and Wiggles-1990 NYC, 1990
Pigment Print on Museo Silver Rag Paper
19 x 29 inches (48.25 x 73.65 cm)

 

Call 323 655 4898 or email Gallery info@hvw8.com for shipping.

 

Lisa Leone
South Bronx ‘Cars’ – South Bronx, 1984
Pigment Print on Museo Silver Rag Paper
13 x 19 inches (33 x 48.25 cm)
Edition of 20

Call 323 655 4898 or email Gallery info@hvw8.com for shipping.

 

Last week to view Lisa Leone ‘Then’. Pieces are available online, call or email the Gallery if  you have any questions on price or shipping.

 

 

Throwback Thursdays

Jen Stark and friends at Alvaro Ilizarbe’s Celestial Beings opening 2010.

Charles Munka working on his Double Knock Out installation 2010.

Noah Butkus at his HVW8 Gallery / Standard Installation, 2010.

Noah Mural

 

HVW8 Gallery crew – Mark, Wazy and Nikolai 2010

David Choe at Alvaro Ilizarbe’s HVW8 Opening 2010.

Lance Mountain at his Disaster Opening 2010.

Raif Adelberg behind HVW8 2010

Skypager / HVW8 Gallery Downtown LA Mural, 2010.

 

A few photos from 2010 from the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery.

HVW8 Artist apparel available through 101

BONE THUGS N TYPOGRAPHY
Kevin Lyons reworks a classic adding a typographic flip.
Black on White, or White on Black.

 

DOUBLE KNOCK OUT
From Charles Munka’s ‘Double Knock Out’ Exhibition at the
HVW8 Art + Design Gallery in 2010.
Green and Yellow on White or Grey.

 

HVW8 / PARRA
Dutch illustrator Parra continues his long standing relationship with HVW8 by creating a new look on the HVW8 logo.
White print on Black.

 

HVW8 LOGO
HVW8 Art + Design Gallery represents and facilitates the spirit and collaboration between art, music and design. In 1998 Tyler Gibney founded HVW8 in Montreal with local artists Gene Pendon and Dan Buller and in 2005 he and Addison Liu opened HVW8 in Los Angeles. With a focus in supporting avant-garde graphic design, it soon became the premier underground gallery in Los Angeles and over the past 5 years has featured artists such as Parra, Geoff McFetridge, Kevin Lyons, Ed Templeton, Lance Mountain, Mos Def with Cognito, Charles Munka, Michael Leon and Alvaro Illizarbe.

 

NOAH BUTKUS – SLIPPERY PEOPLE
Pulled from Noah Butkus’s ‘Slippery People’ exhibition at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery in 2010.
Black on Yellow, and Black on White.

 

SCIENTIST – SPACE INVADERS
HVW8 and 101 Apparel presents a special collaboration with Scientist. This is the first in a series collaborations with the Scientist, more to come!
The Space Invaders album was produced by Mikey “Roots” Scott & Linval Thompson. The recording was done at Channel One Studios backed by the Roots Radics, and mixed at King Tubby’s. The recording was by Stanley “Barnabas” Bryan, Anthony “Crucial Bunny” Graham and Maxwell “Maxie” Livington Smith.

 

A few of the printed apparel pieces pulled from past Gallery Exhibitions and Artists now distributed through 101 apparel. 

Lisa Leone prints online

Snoop VIP –1993 Long Beach

Eazy E – Early 90’s NYC

Grand Master Flash – 1991 NYC

 

 

A few of Lisa Leone’s photos now available for sale online.

Call or email the gallery for further information.

 

Why Are Miami’s Best Artists Moving to Los Angeles?

photo Max SSLA

 

Why Are Miami’s Best Artists Moving to Los Angeles?

reposted from the Miami New Times.

In 2006, hundreds of Miami Beach sunbathers stared in awe as a bizarre procession paraded down the South Beach sand. Eighteen giant helium balloons — shaped like vampire rabbits, volcanoes, and eerily smiling black spheres — floated along while the Hialeah Senior High School marching band blasted a jazz tune.

It was a breakout Art Basel moment for a tag team that has since become one of Miami’s most hailed artistic collaborations: Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, better known as FriendsWithYou. Since that fair, the team has repped the Magic City around the globe, from the High Line in New York City to Scope Art Fair’s featured platform.

No longer. The artists known for their line of plush and wooden toys, magical installations, bounce houses, and rainbow-hued environments are now taking their talents out West. And they’re not alone.

“We love Miami, but collectors here just don’t support our work,” Borkson says. “The truth is that most collectors who purchase our work are located elsewhere.”

Borkson says fellow local A-list artists Jen Stark — a New Times MasterMind Award winner in 2010 known for her paper cutouts — Alvaro Ilizarbe, Pres Rodriguez, and Raul Sanchez will also relocate to Los Angeles this summer. L.A. promises better access to collectors and more room to grow than Miami, he says.

“A lot of our work is being collected out there,” Borkson says. “We are going to move to a place called Silver Lake near downtown with Jen and Alvaro and just rented a huge studio space near the L.A. MOCA downtown.”

Borkson says FWY’s new digs will be called “the Gem” and boast 4,600 square feet in a two-story building he says is the perfect playground for their plans. The move should concern anyone worried about Miami’s art scene — which already suffers from the perception that it’s a once-a-year affair revolving around Basel.

As much as FriendsWithYou supported and helped fuel the 305’s artistic explosion, his group had to follow the financial support West, Borkson explained.

“Our main goal is to keep our vision pure and not just about the money,” he says. “As much as we love Miami, the move is about being in a place where we can be part of a movement, where more money is invested in culture, and we will be more nurtured by people to continue making art that impacts others’ lives.”

Stark agrees that L.A. is a wide open market for Miami talent and says that she and Ilizarbe have already lined up exhibits in two separate galleries to kick off the upcoming season there.

“I think Miami does have some good support structure for some artists and [I] still love it here, but Los Angeles has a lot of opportunities to offer, and that’s why we decided to move there. This September I’ll be showing at the Martha Otero Gallery and Alvaro will be showing at the HVW8 Gallery,” Stark says. “It’s a great time to move there and try new things for the next couple of years.”

Our Voices – Photography benefit auction

HVW8 donated two pieces on the behalf of Raif Adelberg for the ‘Our Voices’ auction tonight.

Information below:

Please join International Top Photographers; Rankin, Guy Aroch, Alexi Lubomirski, Vincent Peters, David Mushegain, Craig Wetherby, among 25 others as well as fashion luminaries and Rose Charities Board Members Noot Seear and Mazdack Rassi, for an auction to benefit the youth of the Nez-Perce.

Tuesday, May 29th
7pm-10pm at
Milk Gallery
450 West 15th Street
New York

ROSE Charities US and A Milk Gallery Project organizes “Our Voices” a silent photo auction event to support an ongoing annual two-week workshop in photography and new media benefiting teenagers of the Lapwai, Idaho Reservation.

Here, the youth are trained by professional artists to use technology to express and celebrate their Native American Heritage. The exhibition includes recent work by some of the students as well as donated items from influential art and fashion photographers.

We recognize the importance of bringing these art practices to often dis-enfranchised youth and hope you will join us in giving them access to the tools that will enrich them in their creative journey.

And for us to continue to enjoy hearing their voices.

Hope to see you there!
ABOUT OUR VOICES & ROSE CHARITIES:

“Our Voices” is an annual two-week workshop that consists of two concurrent classes; photography instruction by Photographer Hunter Barnes and a digital video workshop with Artist and educator Jason Rosenstock. These workshops focus on the fundamentals of using technologies, solving creative problems, as well as the handling and presentation of work to insure that the students’ art is given the respect and care it deserves.