ARTV (Artist Run TV) and HVW8 Gallery presents Liv.e and here new album called “Couldn’t Wait To Tell You…” broadcasting live on Badu World Market this July 30th, 2020 at 7pm PST.
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Einhundert x Hotel Paris x HVW8 Berlin
This Saturday, June 20th, 1 – 10pm (GMT) we continue our monthly music series with @100einhundert @hotelradioparis and @adidasoriginals broadcasting live from HVW8 Berlin.
Tune into stream on hotelradioparis.com
Screen 2 Screen – Episode 10: Senay Kenfe
New #screen2screen interview with the great @senaykenfe …. Senay gives us his thoughts, perspective and understanding of what’s been going on, how we got here and what to expect. Thank you Senay … and music in episode courtesy of @blvckspvdemusic
Senay Kenfe is a photographer, musician, writer and community organizer native to Long Beach, California. Over the last 15 years he’s collaborated with artists around the world as a member of local hip hop act The Natives, as well as worked on projects from documenting the graffiti scene in Brazil and Egypt to leading clean water filtration projects in Ethiopia.
More information at @senaykenfe
Black Lives Matter
HVW8 Gallery supports Black Lives Matter.
Current Mural image from last Saturday’s protest at Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles, just down the street from HVW8 Gallery Los Angeles.
Hotel Einhundert at HVW8 Berlin
We’re hosting @hotelradioparis for a day !
@100einhundert radio broadcast, live from our Berlin Gallery feat. @shes_drunk, @tuananh__, @moneyama, @duals1m b2b @23v1n, @run_p @selecta_k7, @c_h_e_n_y_i_n_n and the Einhundert Soundsystem (@kanucia, @low.vision and @nicoadomako)
Lock in via hotellradioParis.com (please note that the gallery won’t be open to the public) 📡
Artwork by @flohettenbach
Latest Screen 2 Screen Episodes
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:
Artsy link: https://www.artsy.net/show/hvw8-art-plus-design-gallery-screen-2-screen-online-initiative
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.
Artist links:
https://www.alfonsogonzalezjr.com/
Artsy link:
https://www.artsy.net/show/hvw8-art-plus-design-gallery-screen-2-screen-online-initiative
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.
Episode 2: Negashi Armada
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.
Screen 2 Screen – Episode 1: Tyler Gibney HVW8 Gallery
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 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.
Current Update
Happy Birthday Shaniqwa Jarvis!
Images from her current exhibition ‘Rituals’ with Raj Debah. Though the Los Angeles and Berlin galleries are currently closed, exhibition installation images and artist statements are still available to view online.
We’re also exploring ways to support our international community of artists through upcoming virtual exhibits, artist talks, studio visits and performances broadcast from our Los Angeles and Berlin spaces (as permitted by local order).
We feel now more than ever artists must come together in solidarity and support each other through these difficult times. Art is important as ever providing relief, reflection, insight, commentary and sometimes a distraction in these unprecedented circumstances. HVW8 Gallery is dedicated to continue to be a platform and vehicle for the international artist community.
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Shaniqwa Jarvis and Rajendra Debah ‘Rituals’ Opening Night
Thank you to everyone who came by the opening of ‘Rituals’. Exhibit on display until March 29th.
View images from opening here.
‘RITUALS’ with Shaniqwa Jarvis and Rajendra Debah
Please RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com
‘Pause in your flight’ opening night photos – HVW8 Berlin
Thanks to everyone that attended the opening of ‘Pause in your Flight’.
The exhibit runs through February 26th.
Access to Community Opening / Andere Stadt Kein Katalog (ASKK) Opening Night
A few photos from opening night of Andere Stadt Kein Katalog (ASKK) now on display until Jan. 19th, 2020 at HVW8 Los Angeles.
From Hollywood to Worldwide – Music from Brave New Views
Intimate performace with Shafiq Husayn, Jimetta Rose, Taz Arnold, Coultrain and Computer Jay.
Black Party family affair,
Diamondstein Metal Set.
Live performance with Black Nile
Bae Bae DJ Set.
Boom Bip all vinyl.
Live Set with Ray Brady
Podcast Recording with Kilo Kish.
From Hollywood to Worldwide. A few of the musicians that performed during this year’s ‘Brave New Views’ series.
Listen to complete series on NTS (or Search HVW8 on NTS.live), additional photos from the events can be viewed here.
There’s also a host of ‘Brave New Views‘ conversations with HVW8 Gallery’s Tyler Gibney now available for download. Hear discussions about art, music and exhibits with Kilo Kish, Lisa Leone, Eric Elms, Peter Beste, DJ Ross One, Calmatic and Steven Traylor.
Links to main providers below:
Geoff McFetridge ‘Heavyweight’ Mug and Ashtray Set
Longtime HVW8 friend Geoff McFetridge’s custom ‘Heavyweight’ Mug and Ashtray Set.
Ceramic 11oz Custom Coffee Mug
Size: 3.75″ Height: 3.25″ Width: 3.25″ Weight 1lbs Color: White
Ceramic Ash Tray
Size: 3.75″ Height: 1″ Weight 0.46lbs Color: White
Available Friday, Dec. 13th at 12pm (Pacific Time)
Limited to 50
BRAVE NEW VIEWS – MIAMI
Fri Dec 6th – Sun Dec 8th, 2019
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
KILO KISH ROBINSON – BLESSED ASSURANCE: a dream that I had
KILO KISH ROBINSON
BLESSED ASSURANCE: a dream that I had
Opening reception + performance
Friday Nov 15th, 7 – 10pm.
Exhibition runs Nov. 15th until Dec. 15th, 2019
RSVP at kilokishrsvp@hvw8.com
BLESSED ASSURANCE: a dream that i had is an exhibition examining the interactivity between the spiritual and creative. Kilo Kish explores the sacrificial nature of the artists’ path. Opening on November 15th, this show marks her second solo show at HVW8 Art + Design Gallery Los Angeles.
The show features a 3-channel film euphoric featuring artist interviews and the revelations that come from creative practice.
“When I started interviewing the artists, I was so inspired by their willingness to suffer for a calling they found pure. Their audacity made them saintly to me. I wanted to explore belief in one’s art and the way it relates to religious faith and spiritual calling. Creative practice almost becomes a religion. And I think, through it, you become closer to God.”
The show will feature an interactive “audio-visual room of the mind” where visitors become a part of the creative process.
The title of the show BLESSED ASSURANCE comes from a hymn. “This entire show came to me in a dream. I find it intriguing to create a physical space from a mindset and an openness that I feel so connected to as a driving force. I’m happy to explore the act of making as its very own reward. Its very own promise and certainty.”
There’s a sparkling sculptural altar that represents all creative vision, belief, and worth created through the work. “It is the embodiment of unattainable perfection. Creatives are constantly running towards a promised land that is somehow always out of reach.”
Kilo Kish / Kish Robinson is an American musician, visual artist, and designer living in Los Angeles.
Mike Blabac – Family Portraits
For Immediate release: 11.5.19
“There are a very small number of people that have been photographing skating consistently for as long as I have. I’m lucky that my skateboard and camera have allowed me to travel the world with my friends skating just like I did as a kid growing up in the Midwest. Skating is like a family – I’ve known all those guys in the film for most of my life.” – Mike Blabac
HVW8 Art and Design Gallery in Los Angeles will host a book release party November 8 for legendary skateboard photographer Mike Blabac’s “Family Portraits,” published as a limited edition with just 500 copies available.
The evening will also include the premiere of Jacob Rosenberg’s short film, “Mike Blabac – Family Portraits,” as well as a selection of some of Blabac’s most iconic photos on display.
Over the last quarter century, Blabac captured an archive of skateboarding history, including Danny Way’s backside 360 over the Great Wall of China and Josh Kalis’s Love Park tre flip over the can.
But this collection isn’t just about skating and people flying through the air. The real trick is how Blabac’s work represents a group of kids who slowly changed the landscape of our culture while creating a family with ties that can’t be broken and the lessons they taught each other along the way.
With an accompanying short film by director and fellow skater Rosenberg, we are brought into an intimate world where everyone was welcomed as long as you had heart.
The viewer is treated to a depth of work only accessible through deep connection and trust.
After the one-two punch of the stunning portraits and the moving film, you will be moved by the intimacy and connection these artists share with you — even if you’ve never pushed off on a board.
Join us Friday, November 8th/ 7-10PM at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery in Los Angeles for Mike Blabac’s Family Portraits book release and film premiere directed by Jacob Rosenberg with live music by Ray Barbee.
Please RSVP to RSVP@hvw8.com
Opening Friday Nov 1st – Manuel Osterholt (SUPERBLAST)
Exhibition Opening
Friday, 1st of November 2019
6:00pm – 10:00pm
HVW8 Berlin – Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin
In bursts of neon paint, Osterholt configures symbolic odes to our human condition and mortality. Through his use of vivid and unnatural colors, elements of nature, the celestial and the otherworldly are transfigured into warning signs, as if illuminated by the prophetic glow from an explosion elsewhere. Like a heatwave in fall, the paintings whisper age-old fables in the flicker of pink-orange candle light: an ancient cycle of birth and destruction binds humanity and the natural world. Osterholt also presents a series of ceramic masks which reference both the traditions of ancient ceremony and ritual, and hiding in plain sight. These themes are unified in the glow of a lightbox installation, which features in the show as a symbolic gesture towards the tension between light and dark.
While these works possess Osterholt’s signature iconography, the artist embraces a looser mode of expression than his usually-refined graphic style. Painterly strokes and sketchiness signal a renewed urgency in his message, as well as a playfulness which refracts remembered summers of his youth among the olive trees in Greece. The lucid mythologies encoded in the works also instigate a dialogue with the viewer about sacred tales of morality. Framed by the title’s impossible endeavour of ‘measuring the sky’, Osterholt’s work brings into question the role of the ego in the imbalance between good and evil. Through the mirroring of forms such as raindrops and flames, a microcosm emerges for the stardust from which we came, and that to which we’ll return.
Text by Brit Seaton
Peter Beste – October 19th – Brave New Views
HVW8 Gallery and NTS return with a new edition of Brave New Views this October, featuring an exhibition by photographer Peter Beste – ‘Defenders of the Faith’ – exploring the subcultural phenomenon of heavy metal fandom. The event will be accompanied by some suitably heavy DJ sets from Nuge, NTS resident Diamondstein and B2B set from Josh Anzano and Angry Andy. Free with RSVP: stop by HVW8 Los Angeles on Saturday 19th October from 7-10pm PST.
🗯 Photographer Peter Beste has been documenting subcultures for over 20 years. His fourth book, also 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.”
🔊 Don “The Nuge” Nguyen is a pro-skater for Baker Skateboards and played bass in Oklahoma garage band American Ruse.
🔊 Diamondstein is an NTS resident host best known for experimental, drone heavy electronic mixes, here showcasing his metal collection for Brave New Views.
🔊 Josh Anzano B2B Angry Andy – two local heavy metal scholars go head to head.
Produced with support from adidas Originals. RSVP below:
https://www.nts.live/events/nts-hvw8-brave-new-views-october-2019
Recent Press from Thoughts Become Words, Words Become Images
Recent Press from “Thoughts Become Words, Words Become Images” exhibition:
“Thoughts Become Words, Words Become Images” will run until October 13.
Brave New Views This Saturday
HVW8 Gallery and NTS return with a new edition of Brave New Views, featuring photography by Lisa Leone and live performances from Black Party and Black Nile Quartet at HVW8 Los Angeles, Saturday 28th September.
🗯 Lisa Leone began her career as a photographer, shooting musicians and artists from D’Angelo to Spike Lee. She worked with British Vogue as a contributing photographer, and became a mentee of Stanley Kubrick whilst working on his last film, Eyes Wide Shut. She’s previously exhibited at HVW8, Bronx Museum of the Arts, D.C’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and more.
🔊 bLAck pARty is a bedroom R’n’B star with his latest LP, Endless Summer released last month as the first record on Childish Gambino’s Wolf + Rothstein deal with RCA Records.
🔊 The Black Nile Quartet is based around brother duo Aaron & Lawrence Shaw, two prominent instigators for Los Angeles’ new jazz renaissance.
DJ support from Lorenzo and Bae Bae, recorded and streamed on NTS Radio platforms worldwide.
Produced with support from adidas Originals. Refreshments courtesy of Saintwoods.
RSVP below:
https://www.nts.live/events/nts-hvw8-brave-new-views-september-2019
The Good, the Purple and the Weird, a group exhibition Berlin
Exhibition Opening
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
6:00pm – 10:00pm
HVW8 Berlin – Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin
HVW8 Gallery Berlin is pleased to present The Good, the Purple and the Weird, a group exhibition exploring care, spirituality and experimentation in contemporary creation. The show finds connections between ideas in paint, drawings and ceramics, bringing together recent works by seven artists from Berlin and Brussels: Sascha Brylla, Paul Ferens, Maxime Fragnon, Annabell Häfner, Viktoria Maliar, Jacopo Pagin and François Patoue. Embracing their diverse aesthetics and methods of production, the exhibition reveals small truths about common references for describing memories, atmospheres and intimacies.
The Good, the Purple and the Weird is an offering of dreamlike visions, exhibiting a new visual language of signs and symbols. Among the selected works, Jacopo Pagin’s drawings are embedded with mythological references to vitality, and explore patterns in colour pastel which recall the textures and anatomy of trees. Earthly motifs also surface in the work of Maxime Fragnon, the naturalist of the ensemble, whose mixed media ceramics are infused with found elements of flowers and pebbles. In the scratched tempera painting by Sascha Brylla, created with the sgraffito technique as part of his Hunting Scene series, wild animal subjects are both revealed and disguised in their environment. Such relics of remembered and imagined scenery are also present in Annabell Häfner’s hazy hotel interiors, which meditate on the ambience and melancholia of impersonal space. The abstract landscapes of Paul Ferens nestle between real and impossible environments, and Victoria Maliar’s silhouettes emerge like spirits in a midnight jungle, with both artists summoning the psychology of dreams and possible realms of the subconscious. François Patoue’s oil paintings are studies of deep, passionate colour, created with chemical reactions that guide his media to transform and reveal itself on the canvas.
The Good, the Purple and the Weird is curated by Agathe André de Tremontels.
Text by Brit Seaton
Paul Ferens
Annabell Häfner
‘Thoughts become Words, Words Become Images’ Group Exhibit
Opening Thursday Sept 12th, 6 – 9pm. RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com
‘Comics and Nonsense’ Weekend Pop-Up
A few photos from the ‘Comics and Non-Sense’ Weekend Pop-Up with Trevor Andrew and Drew Toonz.
Comics and Nonsense – Trevor ‘Trouble’ Andrew and Andrew ‘Drew Toonz’ Miller
Trouble & Drew’s “Comics & Nonsense”
Exhibit opens Aug 30th 6-10pm
Please RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com
Dj sets by @hateboy2 x @willshott
Exhibit runs Sat. Aug 31st – Sun. Sept 1st, 1- 6pm.
This exhibition celebrates the longstanding collaborative friendship and partnership of Trevor “Trouble” Andrew and Andrew “Drew Toonz” Miller.
Trevor and renowned comic artist, Drew Toons, came together creatively over their shared love of blending high and low fashion culture and art into uncategorizable new works that both comment on the world around them and make you laugh or cringe. Their fun is infectious, but don’t miss their eye for detail, world-building and the pure joy that comes from making art.
Works include the pairs co-authored original, full-length comic book “No Work City,” which chronicles the almost real-life adventures of Emo Cat & Trouble Andrew as they battle corniness in all forms — especially the form of the Corn Lord –, a whimsical and intricately detailed dioramic representation of the world as they see it, and many of Trouble & Drew’s hand-altered/ toys and vintage comics.
Trevor Andrew (b. 1979; Nova Scotia, Canada)
Trevor “Trouble” Andrew, aka Gucci Ghost, is a multi-disciplinary Artist. He is internationally known for his raw street aesthetic and pop art sensibility. Trevor’s recent work explores our relationship with consumer culture, bending the perception of what is “real” and what is luxury.
In 2013, Trevor began tagging the streets of Brooklyn, New York with a personalized vision of the iconic Gucci logo. He transformed everything around him to Gucci by repurposing discarded objects and clothing, extracting the power of the brand identity. This work quickly garnered a substantial online following, and led to an official collection for the iconic Milan based fashion house. As a result of Trevor’s collaborative work, the collection has become a major global success story that has helped bolster the brand.
“Life is Scary Sometimes”
Trevor ‘Trouble’ Andrew
24 x 24in
Edition of 111.
6 color Screenprint on Stonehenge 330 gsm white archival paper.
Print will be available opening night and online Saturday, Aug 31st at 10am Pacific Time (PT)
‘Brave New Views’ Exhibition Print
Now Available online.
Ross Schwartzman | DJ Ross One
FineArt Baryta 325 gsm paper
Print size: 20.75h x 24.25w in. | 53h x 62w cm.
Edition of 50
Numbered & Signed
2019
From “Brave New Views” Exhibited at HVW8 Los Angeles.
Brave New Views – Opening Night Los Angeles
Photos from the Opening Night of Brave New Views now on display at HVW8 Los Angeles.
Photos by Gia – more photos here.
Beirut Youth – Berlin Opening Night
A few photos from the Opening night of ‘Beirut Youth’ at HVW8 Berlin. Exhibition now on display through August 3rd.
More photos here.
