Tag: HVW8 Gallery

Africa B

Original HVW8 member Brian A, aka Sleepy B, is working towards an exhibition based on his recent travels to Benin, Africa. Here are a few words and photos from the artist:

“Much too burned out to pack myself, running on 2 hrs sleep and failing reserves of nervous adrenaline, I made a furious break for the airport in full evening rush-hour traffic; A perfect way to say goodbye to the bustling metropolis of Montreal before my voyage into ‘the birthplace of voodoo’. ‘The doorway to the South’ for the Europeans, certainly the ‘Porte de non-retour’ for the slaves bound from the colonies to the occident, I was heading to the Republic of Benin, on the west coast of Africa.”

Photos and text from a young Canadian’s journey to the Motherland: Discovery, displacement, a whirlwind love affair and an unexpected twist forcing him to confront the wide world outside his home and his place within it. A realization that voodoo is not intangible, it lives in the everyday interactions between people, and in the basic motivation that drives them to do sometimes unimagineable and incomprehensible things.

Look out for an exhibition of Brian’s artwork at the HVW8 Gallery in 2009.

Got Next, next Friday

 

Here is a message from Ray Noland about Next Friday’s Got Next at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, for more information about the exhibition check the Gallery’s website…..

 

Greetings,

Just pulled into Los Angeles after a serene ride threw Big Sur! (I could have stayed for awhile!) Will be exhibiting the GOT NEXT show at HVW8 Gallery opening Next Friday! If you are in the area, come by and see what I do with the place! 

Thanks, to Tyler over at HVW8 for hosting the show for the next few days and DJs JEREMY SOLE & ALFRED HAWKINS for bringin’ threw some cuts!

 Opening Reception:

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Show continues through Sunday, August 10th.

with DJs
JEREMY SOLE (KCRW, Musaics, Afro Funke’)
ALFRED HAWKINS (Firecraker)

 Drinks courtesy of STARR African Rum 

 HVW8 Gallery 
661 N. Spaulding Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036 
www.hvw8.com

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Check out this SF Weekly article… and don’t forget to get your design over to the INFECTIOUS Obama Car Art Contest.

“Ray Noland [CRO], a Chicago-based graphic designer, created a series of inspirational Obama images that began appearing on abandoned buildings and light posts the summer of 2006. Since then, his campaign has grown from a few posters around Chicago to an internationally recognized graphical depiction of inspiration, hope, and change…”

— Juxtapoz