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Resistance For Ukraine: Benefit Auction 2022

Be Nice Los Angeles and HVW8 Gallery will exhibit the works of 50 distinguished artists who aim to support Emergency Response & BIPOC families (black, indigenous, and people of color) in and out of Ukraine.

Artsy Auction 

Each piece offers a unique interpretation of the theme “resistance.” The work will simultaneously be auctioned online via the Artsy exchange. All proceeds will go to Diaspora Relief and Razom, which will use the funds to provide food, shelter, and evacuation support to those in need.

Bidding will be open exclusively on Artsy and will begin closing at 12:00pm PDT (3:00pm EDT) on Thursday, May 26, 2022.

Shipping costs are the responsibility of the buyer. Please contact specialist@artsy.net for any inquiries.

Applicable sales tax will apply to all works shipped to and within the US. Please note, your card will automatically be charged for the Total Purchase Price, buyer’s premium, shipping, and any applicable sales tax, based on your registration address. For transactions over $50,000, you will be given the option to pay via wire transfer.

Happy New Year from HVW8 – 2018 Year in Review

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Happy New Year from HVW8!

As we head into an amazing line up for 2019, we look back at all the incredible exhibits, installations and performances from HVW8 Los Angeles, Berlin and beyond this past year.

We were lucky to have a number of exhibits from an international group of artists such as Gogy Esparza, Inès Longevial, Atiba Jefferson, Olimpia Zagnoli, Chi Modu, Steven Traylor, and Erin D. Garcia to name a few. We continued with our Creative Class Series for intimate interactions with our gallery artists on their creative process and started an Emerging Artist Program to give a platform for up and coming artists.

We continued with our diversity in programing with a variety of installations, performances, radio broadcasts and artist talks with the likes of Kali Uchis, Snoop Dogg, Standing on the Corner, RZA and Einhundert.

Look for an amazing line up for 2019!

Below are a few links from some highlights of 2018.

2018 Year In Review

Exhibits

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Beirut Youth  Gogy Esparza, Jey Perie
February 22 – March 18th

Four Conversations  Inès Longevial, 44 Flavours, Huskmitnavn, Julian Smith
April 28th – June 16th

Heart-Shaped Box  Atiba Jefferson
May 19th – July 15th

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Cuore Di Panna  Olimpia Zagnoli
May 25th – July 15th

Uncategorized – Berlin and Los Angeles Chi Modu
July 5th – August 4th, 2018
August 26th– September 23rd

Wild At Hand – A Group Show of Contemporary Drawing
September 14th– October 13th

10 Toes With His Chest Caved In  Steven Traylor
Sept. 22nd – October 7th

Not To Lose My Head Jay ‘One’ Ramier
October 25th – November 24th

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Grand Prix Erin D Garcia
Nov. 16 – Dec. 23rd

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2018 HVW8 Highlights – Installations, Artist Talks and Performances :

Sarah Bahbah Installation at HVW8 Los Angeles

Andrew Westerman at HVW8 Berlin

Kali Uchis  at HVW8 Los Angeles

Artist Dinners  Berlin / Los Angeles 

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Creative Classes – Atiba Jefferson and Chi Modu

Snoop Dogg Live Talk and DJ Set from HVW8 Plana

Wu Tang x Off Safety featuring Eddie Otchre and Paul Chan, live performance by RZA

Standing on the Corner Live Performance and Film Screening  

Einhundert ‘Heavyweight Sounds’ Live broadcast from HVW8 Berlin 

 

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Select Press –

Inès Longevail on Cover of Juxtapoz

Tyler Gibney Interview in Amadeus

Kilo Kish in Cal Sunday

Olimpia Zagnoli ‘Cuore Di Panna’ lecture for Nicer Tuesdays

Chi Modu at HVW8 in Paper Magazine

 

Wishing you and your family the best from HVW8 Galleries Los Angeles and Berlin, and looking forward to an exciting and prodigious 2019.

Also Special Thanks to our HVW8 Family, if not for you this would not be possible.

Los Angeles –
Addison Liu, John Wheeler, Gabriel Ortiz, Max Junk, Jake Venden Berge, Henry Anguiano, Nicole Kunz, Kelly Merlo, Yvonne Otchwemah, Julio Martinez, Pierre Briet, Mo Hill, Richie Dandan, Josh Chandler
Berlin –
Jenny Ames, Manuel Osterholt, Mika Manke, Lili Somogyi

Cheers to 2019!

Atiba Jefferson Creative Class

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HVW8 Gallery and adidas Originals present :

Creative Class
Featuring Atiba Jefferson

An evening with Atiba Jefferson as he talks about his work and creative process for his ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ exhibition.

To be eligible to attend, please post an original photograph of yours and tag #atibacreativeclass and he will reach out if you’re selected.

All entries must be posted by Thursday, June 21st. The exhibit is located in Los Angeles, you must be in the area the weekend of June 23rd to attend if selected.

Creative Class is an ongoing series of artist talks and lectures fostering dialogue between established exhibiting artists and emerging artists and creatives.

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ATIBA JEFFERSON – ‘HEART-SHAPED BOX’

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HVW8 Gallery and adidas Originals present:

ATIBA JEFFERSON – ‘HEART-SHAPED BOX’

 MAY 19TH – JULY 15TH, 2018
Opening Night May 19th, 7 – 11 pm, presented with Jägermeister
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HVW8 GALLERY AT PLĀNA
5416 WILSHIRE BLVD., LOS ANGELES, CA 90036
GALLERY OPEN 1 – 6PM, THURSDAY – SUNDAY
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About the show

HVW8 Gallery and adidas Originals are pleased to present ‘Heart-Shaped Box’, an immersive exhibition of photography by Atiba Jefferson. Assembling large-scale lightbox cubes of Atiba’s iconic images, ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ establishes an interactive environment that shines a new light on the renowned photographer’s continually evolving practice. The show configures four lightboxes in a black-painted gallery space, illuminated from within to reveal a sublime view of Atiba’s portraits, action shots and cityscapes, while drawing attention to the essential component of light throughout the photographic process.

‘Heart-Shaped Box’ celebrates twenty years of Atiba’s photography. Keeping it fresh, the show collates images from his more recent archives, some of which have never been viewed beyond the dimensions of an iPhone screen. The installation presents digital and analogue work across five facades of the 8 ft lightbox cubes, enabling new dialogues to occur between the images when the structures are observed from different perspectives. “This collection of photos is how I view photography,” Atiba explains. “I like things to be different—from my lighting, format, angles and the same goes for my subjects. It’s not just skateboarding, it’s not just music, it’s not just people. It’s all the things I love.”

About Atiba Jefferson

Born in Colorado Springs, photographer and skateboarder Atiba Jefferson lives and works in Los Angeles. While these two passions have led to his international acclaim as a skateboarding photographer and working for Thrasher Magazine, Atiba also has a deep history with basketball, being a staff photographer for the LA Lakers during the Shaq and Kobe years, and shooting more SLAM magazine covers than any other photographer. Alongside commercial shoots for clients such as Supreme, adidas, Nike, Converse and Oakley, Atiba’s extensive portfolio also comprises music and lifestyle photography and has been exhibited across the globe.

HVW8 Gallery x adidas Originals

HVW8 Gallery and adidas Originals continue their long partnership in fostering emerging artists and creators from around the world. By supporting local artists and providing an inclusive environment for dialogue between artists from various cultures and mediums, the partnership provides an international platform for new and diverse artistic visions. Past artists include Kilo Kish, Brian Lotti, Inès Longevial, Gogy Esparza, Lisa Leone, Mark Gonzales and Jean Jullien.

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Plana Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and the advancement of creative fields including art, architecture and design through educational programs and events.

Atiba Jefferson: Lonely Wanderer – HVW8 Opening Hong Kong

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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.

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Atiba Jefferson Interview

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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.

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Atiba Jefferson ‘So Long, Lonesome’ Opens at HVW8 Berlin

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Photographer Atiba Jefferson presents his first European exhibition ‘So Long, Lonesome’ at the HVW8 Berlin gallery.

“This show is special because it’s the first time showing a solo show in Europe. I have shown a lot of my older stuff before but for this show I really wanted to show a good amount of current stuff. I’m a big fan of the things that I shoot, I feel that all the people I shoot are not alone in their drive to do great things and they all are amazing individuals from all different walks of life. I’m lucky to photograph them. ”

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Atiba Jefferson (b. 1976) is a Los Angeles based photographer. Internationally known for his sports, music, lifestyle, and skateboarding photography, his work can be seen in a wide variety of publications and commercial projects.

HVW8 Berlin
Linienstraße 161, 10115 Berlin, Germany

with support from adidas

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Atiba Jefferson at HVW8

Tomorrow, Thursday July 25th, HVW8 Gallery is hosting a one night exhibition with Atiba Jefferson

Here is a recent interview with Atiba from LiveFast magazine.

He plays keyboard and guitar in The Goat with Shane Heyl, Spanky, Beagle and Andrew Reynolds, DJs across the country at arts and sports events, and although you might catch him shot gunning a beer after bar close, he’s probably scheduled on a flight to China in the morning – and he won’t miss it.

There’s no stopping this guy, and that’s why we were excited to interview him and get a little back story in time for the release of his LA Capsule Collection for Green Label Exclusives, a one night only photo show at HVW8 with live music by Life Coach and DJ sets from The Blackouts and Steve Lee. RSVP here, it’s gonna be a good one.

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Q&A

LF: How did your one-night art show at HVW8 come about?

AJ: Aaron who works with Green Label brought it up and I have been to shows there and love it every time. What’s to expect? It’s a bunch of stuff I have shot in LA over the years. It will be lots of P-rod and Kobe Bryant.

LF: You’ve worked with lots of professional athletes and have seen the rise and demise of many. Can fame and money fuck you up if you are not careful?

AJ: Yes I have been around the block a couple times and have seen people fall to lots of vice’s – drugs, fame, money, and ego. I think the people at the top stay there because they are true to themselves and check the ego at the door, and then there is addiction, everything in moderation and you’re good. Fame and money can be are good if used to help others.

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LF: You first got into basketball photography by sneaking your camera into Lakers games. Did you ever get caught, or was it all good from there?

AJ: Ha I never got caught, film days people were so much more relaxed.

LF: You photographed Michael Jordan. Can you talk about that a little bit, and what was the coolest thing he said to you during the shoot?

AJ: It was quick because he is such a pro ever frame perfect, he asked me if I was the photographer because I looked so young, but a really cool dude, happiest day of my life besides Koston’s backnose blunt bricktown.

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LF: You compare skating to music. How are they interconnected? Can you describe in your own words what skateboarding means to you?

AJ: I mean I think they are similar in so many ways it’s all up to you when you do it, you can be solo or with your bro’s, it’s also the ultimate high and only those who do both know what I’m talking about that why it rules.

LF: Who’s your favorite skater right now?

AJ: Andrew Reynolds – but my favorite of all time is Keenan Milton.

LF: Who do you think is getting skater of the year so far?

AJ: Collin Provost

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LF: What would you say has been the highest point of your career?

AJ: I’m still searching for it, but shooting Jordan, Kobe win 5 rings, Tony Hawk 900 and Loop, Reynolds kickflip davis … so many things.

LF: One thing people don’t know about Atiba?

AJ: I really like the Cocteau Twins and it surprises me the amount of people that don’t realize I have a identical twin.

LF: Any advice for young photographers on the rise?

AJ: Do it for the love, it’s a lot funnier then doing it for money.

 

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LF: You are reputed to party hard, yet you’re always on time at the skate spot in the morning, ready to shoot. How do you keep a balance?

AJ: Everything in moderation and keep it to Jager and St Archer and I’m good, but life is too short to be hung over.

LF: What’s currently on your playlist?

AJ: Bad Brains, Animal Collective, Explosions in the Sky, My Bloody Valentine, Drake, A$AP Rocky, Zomby, Miles Davis, King Tubby.

LF: In your opinion, what’s the state of hip hop today?

AJ: Hip Hop to me is great! I lived through the golden era and right now you have very creative artists like Tyler the Creator, Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar and which are to me similar to that era. Drake, Juicy J and French Montana and other hood shit is just as creative, it’s so good.

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LF: What gets you off, literally or figuratively?

AJ: Ass, Ass, Ass, Ass in Big Sean voice, and a close game of Call of Duty.

LF: How fast do you live?

AJ: I think I live life in the middle lane. Fast enough to have fun, slow enough to enjoy it.