Invite for Parra‘s opening at the SFMOMA this March 31st to July 29th 2012.
Photos from the Robert Raimon Roy zine release party this past Wed.
Original Brent Rollins currently on display.
Piece from Kevin Lyon’s your Mom Is In My Business exhibition at HVW8.
New Print by Brent Rollins is now available in the HVW8 online shop. First come, first serve basis, limited to 25.
For additional work by Brent Rollins please email info@hvw8.com.
“We Was Them Kids …”
Group Exhibition
Kevin Lyons
Parra
Geoff McFetridge
Matt Irving
Winston Tseng
Yogi Proctor
Charles Munka
Brent Rollins
Alvaro Ilizarbe
A collection of works from friends of the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery.
Curated by Tyler Gibney
Opening Friday, Nov. 11th, 7pm to 10pm
Exhibition runs through Dec. 20th, 2011
rsvp to: WeWasThemKids@hvw8.com
Thanks to Bushmills, Vantage and PBR.
HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave. L.A. Ca 90036
Hours: Tues to Sun, 1 – 6pm
www.hvw8.com
323 655 4898
Over the past four years, the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery has hosted a variety of exhibitions and performances at its West Hollywood location, ranging from internationally acclaimed street artist Anthony Lister (July 2011) to musical performances with Snoop Dogg and Dam-Funk (Feb. 2011).
With “We Was Them Kids …”, HVW8 curator Tyler Gibney pulls together some of the finest contemporary artist/ designers to have exhibited at the HVW8 Gallery in recent years.
Works range from Amsterdam resident Parra’s post-pop imagery of highly saturated colors, vibrant hand-drawn letters and worlds inhabited by hybrid, surreal characters to Geoff McFetridge’s communicative pieces in sculpture, drawing and design that echo with humor and insight. Yogi Proctor proliferates decoys. These works span a variety of mediums, appearances, and approaches, de-stablizing notions of “originality” and “artist” with wit and agility.
From Brooklyn, Kevin Lyons brings his sharp tongue together with sharpie, stepping away from his A-List clientele as Creative Director of the internationally known ad agency Anomoly, to have some fun with his madhouse of characters and type. Complex Magazine Art Director, Brent Rollins (best known for his Boyz In The Hood and Mo Better Blues logos as well as being one of the creators of Ego Trip) continues his visual relationship between design and music, while Miami’s Alvaro Ilizarbe’s work explores space, energy, and tension through hypnotizing large scale black and white patterns.
Winston Tseng and Matt Irving depart from their skateboard and design backgrounds with original work, and French born/Hong Kong resident Charles Munka (well known in Los Angeles for his work with Flying Lotus) brings his post graffiti stylings to round out this exhibition. HVW8 Art + Design Gallery is proud to present this international set of artists and designers, whom, like Parra after his 2012 SF MOMA exhibition, might not be as accessible in an intimate gallery setting in the near future.
HVW8 Gallery alumni, Brent Rollins and Kevin Lyons each have in Billboards up currently in Los Angeles. Kevin Located at the Space 15 Twenty near Sunset and Vine, and Brent on top of Union at 1st and La Brea. A nice touch to the LA skyline.
Brent Rollins – Summer of Lust 03 Print
Brent Rollins – Summer of Lust 17 Print
Here are a couple remixes by two of our favorite artists; Da Art Of Storytellin Pt. IV by Stoney Rock and a visual remix of the The Summer of Lust by Brent Rollins.
Stoney Rock – Da Art Of Storytellin Pt. IV
Coming next week when you order a print by HVW8, Parra, Brent Rollins, Kevin Lyon or any other artist, you will have the option of custom framing. Email Max@hvw8.com for further questions.
Brent Rollins Originals are now in the HVW8 Shop
48″ by 36″, Silkscreen on Plexiglass and wood.
Or stop by the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery and view the pieces in person.
Wed. to Sun., 1 – 5pm, or by appointment, 661 N Spaulding Ave, Los Angeles, CA – (323) 655-4898
A salon style of work currently on display from past HVW8 Gallery shows including Parra, Brent Rollins and Kevin Lyons as well as new HVW8 A.I. pieces including the new the Obama and Allen Ginsberg featured in the Juxtapoz article.
New galley summer hours, open Wednesday through Sunday, 1 – 5pm, or by appointment, 323 655 4898.
Be on the look out for Ego Trip’s new Miss Rap Supreme
on VH1 this Fall. One of the show’s creators and the Art Director is Brent Rollins, who also got HVW8’s Ty G to paint the “Salt-n-Pepper” suite.
Prints now available at the HVW8 Gallery Los Angeles :
Grotesk
Geoff McFetridge
Brent Rollins
Numbered and signed.
Each print 150$.
Will be in the HVW8 Online store soon.
HVW8 Gallery
Wed-Sat., 1-5pm.
661 N. Spaulding Ave.
Los Angeles, CA.
90036
323 655 4898 for appointment.
Rostarr at Turntablelab
Parra x arkitip
parra, ty g, pres, brent rollins
Brent Rollins
Tyler Gibney
Parra
Willo Perron
Adrian Nyman
Grotesk
Geoff McFetridge
Photos by:
Frolab
Coleman
Ty G
Max
Photos by Kiwamu Omae
