David Bowie memorial on HVW8 LA.
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The Art Of A Political Revolution
Opening Reception
Brock Fetch and A$AP Ferg
ALWAYS STRIVE AND PROSPER
A PHOTO EXHIBITION BY BROCK FETCH AND A$AP FERG
presented by adidas skateboarding
Dec 12th, 6 – 10pm
at HVW8 Los Angeles
The exhibit features insightful photos by esteemed photographer Brock Fetch and highlights the close friendship and camaraderie of the A$AP Mob. In particular, the exhibit will pay tribute to A$AP Yams – who was the founder of the iconic group – with a large-scale painting by A$AP Ferg dedicated to the late artist.
More photo’s from Opening Night
ALWAYS STRIVE AND PROSPER – MIAMI ART BASEL
“Boys” Zine Release
“Boys” by Betül Uyar
Zine release and tattoo sessions (with Cheaptattoo & Victortattoo)
Release event: Thursday, November 19th 2015, 3 – 11pm
Betül Uyar aka Tue La releases her first photo zine ‘BOYS’ on November 19th, 2015 at HVW8 Gallery Berlin. She was born and raised in Berlin Kreuzberg which you can identify in most of her photos. The cover of ‘BOYS’ is showing her first ever shot of the series, taken some time ago in the backyard where she grew up – at Kottbusser Tor.
For this publication TueLa has selected 26 analog taken images from a huge amount of photos she has collected over the years. The ‘BOYS’ zine is limited to 100 copies and will be available at the release event. A few photos will be on display in the gallery.
Jean Jullien’s Raw Reaction
Jean Jullien Raw reaction to the tragedy became the symbol for peace and solidarity in Paris.
Read more :
New York Times – A ‘Raw’ Reaction Becomes a Symbol of Solidarity
NPR – Circle Of Hope: How A Raw Reaction Became A Sign Of Solidarity
Los Angeles Gallery Appointments
The HVW8 Los Angeles Gallery is open by appointment only until December 2nd, then will resume regular hours.
If you would like to view and / or purchase artwork from previous exhibitions please email info@hvw8.com and arrange an appointment.
Thank-you
Paul Chan – Berlin
HVW8 Berlin presents:
Paul Chan’s ‘Off Safety’
The photography exhibition ‘Off Safety’ is a brief moment in time of highly influential musicians, Paul Chan captured this movement in the midst of a DIY ethos and aesthetic, representing the later part of the golden era of hip hop.
Opening: Oct 8th, 2015
7-10pm
HVW8 Gallery
Linienstr. 161
Berlin
Fresh food by Tiny’s Pizza
Beer by San Miguel
support by adidas
Paul Chan available for interviews
Jenne Grabowski Gallery management
jenne@hvw8.com
Betül Uyar
Production & PR
betueluyar@googlemail.com
Linienstraße 161 10115 Berlin
More opening night photos here
Noah Davis 1983 – 2015
Thoughts to the family of long time friend and collaborator Noah Davis on his passing this weekend.
We were lucky to know Noah for the past many years and to witness his amazing rise and success. His exhibition ‘Imitation of Wealth‘ is currently on display at MOCA.
Pictured at the HVW8 Gallery in Los Angeles during his 2010 exhibition ‘Look Mom, No Talent‘ with Ulysses Pizarro and Darnell Prince. The trio were collectively known as the Inner City Avant-Garde.
Noah was an amazing artist and soul. He will be dearly missed.
Here are more articles on Noah.
Noah Davis, 32, Artist and Founder of Underground Museum in Los Angeles, Dies – NYTimes
Noah Davis dies at 32; L.A. painter and installation artist – LA Times
From Feb Mag by Noah Davis, 2007
Early Painting ‘Pulp’ by Noah Davis, 2007
Tribute piece currently on HVW8 Gallery Los Angeles.
photo Tyler Gibney
SUMMER SCHOOL at the ACE
SUMMER SCHOOL
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC UPON RSVP – PALM SPRINGS
Get your three-ring binders ready: our fifth annual Summer School retreat is upon us. Free, open-to-the-public workshops during the day, with bands and DJs taking us well into the night. Best of all: no principals.
Art workshops Include:
Sun Print Workshop with Photographer Mike Selsky
Collage-Logo Kitchen Workshop with Designer Trevor Tarczynski
Printmaking & Block Printing Workshop with Kristofferson San Pablo
Feathers Workshop with Nathan Bell
Curated by Tyler Gibney (HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, LA)
Live Music by:
Jacuzzi Boys
Phantoms
DJ Sets by:
Chris Douridas (of KCRW)
Kodak to Graph
E.B. Sollis
Soraya
Masha
Plus secret special guests
Staying with us for the retreat? Use the code TEACHERSPET when booking for ten percent off room rates.
View last year’s Summer School feature on Nowness HERE
Brian Lotti: Echo Park on Nowness
Brian Lotti: Echo Park
Visionary skate filmmaker Jacob Rosenberg captures the artist’s LA story
It is no surprise that American artist Brian Lotti’s work takes in inner-city neighborhoods, alleyways, vistas and purposefully-striding figures – the elements inherent to the urban landscape with which his years as a professional street skateboarder made him so intimately familiar.
After a successful career in the sport (he is credited as being one of the originators of technical street skating), the Okinawa-born Lotti studied art at San Francisco State University, after which he returned to Southern California.
Directed by renowned skate director Jacob Rosenberg – responsible for the pioneering Plan B films Questionable and Virtual Reality, and whom Lotti first met 27 years ago at a skateboard camp in Santa Clara – today’s profile follows the painter as he prepares for his first solo exhibition at HVW8, a collection of oils, color studies and monotypes that captures his home base in Los Angeles’s Echo Park with bold impressionistic strokes and vivid colors that bring to mind Cezanne’s Provençal landscapes.
Echo Park by Brian Lotti at HVW8 gallery, Los Angeles runs to August 2.
James Wignall is Copy Chief at NOWNESS.
MAUVAISE RÉPUTATION
JEAN ANDRÉ
MAUVAISE RÉPUTATION
August 2nd – August 31st, 2015
Jean André’s “gentleman art” balances saucy and minimalistic representations of women, creating images that read as both gentlemen’s pulp illustration and satirical tableaux. His influences range from Matisse to Gainsbourg to Drake as well as erotic magazines from the 80’s.
For Mauvaise Réputation, Jean partners with Paris based tattoo artist Tarik aka The Crayoner. яндекс. The exhibition is inspired by old tattoos made as tributes for beloved women and ‘mauvais garçons’ inked drawings.
Friday July 31st and Saturday August 1st will be dedicated exclusively to tattoo sessions with The Crayoner & Jean André at HVW8 Gallery Berlin.
Tattoos by appointment only – to book please contact: jean@hvw8.com
The exhibition opens Sunday August 2nd, 1 – 6pm with an outdoor barbecue at HVW8 Gallery Berlin with San Miguel Beer. A limited number of hand-drawn black carbon on recycled paper posters and printed cards will be available for sale. Exhibition runs through August 31st.
HVW8 Gallery Berlin
Linienstraße 10115 Berlin Mitte
Brian Lotti Install Shots and Pieces Available Online
BRIAN LOTTI
ECHO PARK
June 19th – August 2nd, 2015
please email info@hvw8.com for further inquiries
artwork also available here.
Brian Lotti ‘Echo Park’
BRIAN LOTTI
ECHO PARK
June 19th – July 19th, 2015
Opens Friday, June 19th, 7 pm at HVW8 Los Angeles.
**Exhibition now extended to August 2nd
Please email info@hvw8.com for inquiries
Brian Roettinger – Book Signing at HVW8 Berlin
In support of his current exhibition, 8 Announcements, Brian Roettinger will be signing books and catalogs at HVW8 Berlin, this Thursday, June 11th, from 6 – 8pm.
Books and Catalogs will be available for sale in a limited supply.
Please RSVP here
Brian Roettinger 8 Announcements opening Los Angeles and Berlin
Berlin
Los Angeles
Berlin Opening
Currently on Display at HVW8 Gallery’s in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Please email info(at)hvw8.com for further information.
HVW8 Los Angeles
661 N Spaulding Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 1 – 6pm
HVW8 Berlin
HVW8 Berlin, Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 1 – 5 pm
Brian Roettinger, 8 Announcements
Announcements in Los Angeles and Berlin for Brian Roettinger’ exhibition ‘8 Announcements’
Opening this Friday May 8th, at HVW8 Los Angeles and Saturday, May 16th at HVW8 Berlin.
Please RSVP at rsvp@hvw8.com
Follow HVW8 Gallery on Instagram here.
Gallery Weekend Berlin
Gallery Weekend at HVW8 Berlin
May 1 – 3rd
Please Join us at HVW8 Berlin as we celebrate Gallery Weekend, marking 7 months of the HVW8 Gallery in Berlin with art, music and food.
HVW8 Berlin opened in Oct of 2014 and since had exhibitions and events featuring international artists and photographers such as Jean André, Atiba Jefferson, Rein Vollegna, Julie Opperman, Ed Templeton, Rich Jacobs, Sergej Vutuc, Andrew Schoultz, Philippine Chaumont to name a few. HVW8 Berlin has also collaborated with local Berlin print houses and publications Draw-A-Line and Just Breathe (JB. Magazine) to showcase artists and work.
In this spirit we invite you to join HVW8 Gallery this weekend for an open house of art, music and food.
Please email – mailto:infoberlin@hvw8.com for inquiries.
Original artwork and prints from previous exhibitions will be on display and for sale, as well as new artwork by JB. fellows Stefan Marx, Tim Head and Remed.
Opening hours:
Friday, May 1 — 3 to 6 pm
Saturday, May 2 — 3 to 8 pm
Sunday, May 3 — 3 to 8 pm
On Saturday, May 2:
Music by Isis Salam and special guests
Fresh Pizza by Tiny Tim (from Weboogie Berlin)
With support from San Miguel and adidas.
HVW8 Berlin, Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Brian Roettinger – 8 Announcements – May 8th
Janette Beckman – New York Times
1980s, Janette Beckman, an expat punk photographer from London, amassed a portfolio of burgeoning New York rap acts like the Cold Crush Brothers, Big Daddy Kane and Public Enemy. It was a labor of love for Ms. Beckman, who had visited New York a few years earlier and was so entranced by the beginnings of hip-hop that she never left. She later collected those images in a book, but she challenges you to find a copy of it today.
“We couldn’t sell it to anyone,” Ms. Beckman said. “Back then, there was not one thought in my mind hip-hop would become this massive thing.”
Was she wrong.
Ms. Beckman’s early portraits are now on display in “Hip-Hop Revolution” at the Museum of the City of New York, alongside the work of Joe Conzo Jr. and Martha Cooper, photographers whose images from the 1970s through the 1990s document parties and dances that began in empty lots and playgrounds and went on to become part of global youth culture.
Full article Here
HVW8 presents Atiba Jefferson’s ‘Lonely Wanderer’ at WOAW for Art Basel (Hong Kong)
Thanks to everyone that came out to our Pop Gallery featuring Atiba Jefferson at WOAW for this years Hong Kong Art Basel.
More photos here
Currently on Display
Jean Jullien – Poor Traits Opens March 27th at 7pm.
Jean Jullien – Poor Traits Opens March 27th at 7pm.
email info@hvw8.com for further details.
Atiba Jefferson: Lonely Wanderer – HVW8 Opening Hong Kong
WOAW and HVW8 Present –
Lonely Wanderer
Atiba Jefferson
with HVW8 Gallery pop-up
Monday, March 16th
6:30 – 9:30pm
WOAW store – 11 Gough Street, Sheung Wan, HK
RSVP : info@woawstore.com
Atiba Jefferson: Lonely Wanderer
Skate photography can be limited by its environment: incandescent street lights, pedestrians, and handrails among other urban barriers. This particular craft compensated for these obstacles and maximized action and consequently took the form of fisheye perspective, oblique ground angles, and wide panoramas. Contemporary practice has become so perfected that street images have attained a studio finish of painstakingly perfected lighting and dramatically staged composition. Atiba Jefferson, beginning as a self-taught hobbyist photographer from small town Colorado, entered the field at this pivotal moment becoming a major influencer in this aestheticization of digital skateboard photography.
Andrew Reynolds suspended in mid-execution of his Frontside Flip in Vancouver surrounded by an innumerable wall of ragged spectators is frozen at the apex frame, decisively timed and impossibly composed. This image has since compounded Reynold’s mythologization, and in turn, lives in the collective experience of what it feels like to watch someone “land it.” It’s also a reminder that there’s still an instinctual value and awe with using photography as a way of preserving an ephemeral, and for a lot of viewers, culturally monumental moment. Atiba has since photographed an impressive range of individuals of athletes and musicians who have attained a status of iconicity: Kobe, Animal Collective, Michael Jordan, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Tony Hawk, Tyler the Creator, Future Islands, RZA, Derrick Rose, Run the Jewels, Battles, 2 Chainz, Mark Gonzales, and so on.
What is more baffling is how someone arrives at the opportunity to photograph these people from such disparate industries; for Atiba, these occasions often occur out of chance rather than will. A backstage “hey” activates a network of social dominoes that eventually results in the moment when Explosions in the Sky’s Munaf Rayani holds a guitar ritualistically to the crowd, irradiated by beams of light and covered in a cosmos of photographic grain, in a way that speaks to the shimmering/shattering gliss of the band’s music. Commercial or recreational, each image demonstrates the skill needed to render the particular affect of that instance and the attention necessary to convey the something of an innate quality of a person’s identity.
Atiba derives his practice from his subject. Panda Bear’s Lonely Wanderer, with its cascading keys and mantric vocals repeats, “If you…Look back…Would you…Look back…What have you done…Have you done…Was it…Was it Worthwhile.” Similarly, Lonely Wanderer can be taken as a persistent, reflective, and fragmentary self-interrogation of achievement as communicated through the people that Atiba meanders around.
Atiba is a photographer living and working in Los Angeles. He has served on the editorial staff for Transworld and is one of the founders of The Skateboard Mag. He shoot campaigns for Supreme, adidas, Panasonic and the LA Lakers. He plays keyboards in a band called The Goats & The Occasional Others and co-runs a bar in LA. Lonely Wanderer is his third exhibition at HVW8. He has previously shown at HVW8 LA and HVW8 Berlin.
Sergej Vutuc & Rich Jacobs, Agathe Zaerpour & Philippine Chaumont Opens March 12th, Berlin
SERGEJ VUTUC & RICH JACOBS: I DON’T HAVE TO KNOW YOU TO WAVE TO YOU,
AGATHE ZAERPOUR & PHILIPPINE CHAUMONT: UZURI-UBICHI
March 12th, – April 4th, 2015
Opening Thursday, March 12th at 7 – 10pm
HVW8 Berlin
Linienstraße 161
10115 Berlin
Germany
More photos on HVW8 Berlin Facebook
Madsaki Opening Night
Thank-you to everyone that came out to the opening night of Madsaki’s ‘Please Don’t Spit On The Painting’.
Also thank-you to Asahi Beer for the support.
More photos of the opening night on HVW8’s Facebook page.
Please email info(at)hvw8.com for any artwork inquires.
Parra at Kunsthal, Rotterdam
Congratulations to long time HVW8 Friend and Artist, Parra, on his new 10 year retrospective exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam Museum. Opening this Saturday, March 7, 2015. Amazing work!
Madsaki opens Feb. 27th, 7 – 10pm.
PLEASE DON’T SPIT ON THE PAINTING
February 27th – March 22nd, 2015
opening 7 – 10pm, RSVP at : rsvp@HVW8.com
Atiba Jefferson Interview
Interview with Atiba Jefferson by Chris Danforth.
I first heard the name Atiba Jefferson in relation to the skate scene in Los Angeles. Over the years, Jefferson has had access to a who’s who of not only skating, but music, sports, pop culture and more. Whether sitting in on a Henry Rollins photoshoot and quietly clicking the shutter through a long lens, or being commissioned to snap portraits of the Jumpman himself, Atiba has accumulated a wealth of experience during his tenure as a photographer and multi-creative. When speaking with Atiba, there was a lot to cover, as you can’t place his work into only one silo. In this sense, he seems to be a caricature of the modern creative; being well-versed in multiple creative mediums.
How did the HVW8 exhibition in Berlin come to fruition?
It came together at the last minute. I was in Berlin, working with Oakley on a new project, traveling with Sean Malto and Eric Koston, and they asked us to come over for a sales meeting. Tyler asked me to do it, and I was enthusiastic about the project, especially because I was already there.
So you knew him from LA?
Yeah, that’s the one gallery I show at in LA. So I’ve done a couple of shows at his gallery in LA and stuff like that.
Do you have other relationships with galleries like that in the States where you only want to show at one particular gallery?
I don’t regularly show my work but I do have a friend whose group show I’m always trying to be a part of. And then smaller stuff but I only started doing solo shows after I met Tyler.
What about the name of the exhibition? Could you explain that as well?
Titles are always a little bit tricky to come by. I’ve been listening to “So Long, Lonesome,” this Explosions in the Sky song. They’re an instrumental band – pretty big in the U.S. They’re one of my favorite bands actually. I saw them on their first tour in 2000 or 2001, and they were playing to some four people. Now they play huge festivals, in front of eight to ten thousand people at a time. The funny thing is, I was backstage at the Fuck Yeah festival in LA, and the dudes in the band were passing me. They called out to me because they knew who I was. I turned around and recognized them as well. After that we became really good friends.
Read More HERE
Jean André Interview
Excerpt from Jean André Article
by Chris Danforth
En route to HVW8 Art + Design Gallery in Berlin, I was chewing over the years I spent listening to Ed Banger releases. Admittedly, I definitely had a higher level of familiarity with So Me – Jean André’s predecessor as art director at Ed Banger – before speaking with Jean himself that is, who was hosting an exhibition in the intimate gallery setting in the city’s Mitte district. You may expect to receive virtually zero facetime in circumstances like these, given the way that PR people, writers, photographers, fans, and myself, will be pooling around an artist, however, Jean obliged conversations effortlessly, entertaining all those to take an interest in the visual offerings that night. So Me was practically synonymous with Ed Banger at a certain time and presumably following up on his role would entail certain challenges. Jean André seems to have strode confidently into his new position, while bringing a singular and unique approach that would not presently indicate a total overhaul of the French record label’s artistic aesthetic.
Check above in the slideshow for a custom illustration done for Highsnobiety by Jean André.
What’s up Jean? How was Art Basel Miami?
Art Basel was great! Constructing a full exhibition in 4 days in a new city is always a big challenge to me. I had to deal with the furniture we brought, the supplies which didn’t show up because of shipping from Los Angeles, the display of the adidas x HVW8 shoes that I worked on with Kevin Lyons etc… It’s super motivating.
Would you describe yourself as a sneakerhead? What is your relationship with streetwear?
I think I have like 5 pairs of shoes. I’m not a super fashionista, I do not collect sneakers or any apparel, and I don’t go to fashion week. I wear what fits me, that’s pretty much all I care about fashion. Actually, I have a cool collection of white Apparel T-shirts and Zara pants.
You often work with Kevin Lyons, what is his role in your life?
Kevin is a friend and a great advisor, kind of a brother/mentor. He has a great deal of experience in this crazy art/exhibitions/collaboration game.
What about HVW8 Gallery?
That’s all about Tyler Gibney. He is a great guy, he believes in me and was the first man to suggest that I travel to show my drawings. HVW8 has some great artists that I have followed for years, so I feel great to be part of a cool move like this.