Tag: HVW8 Paintings

Lost Art – HVW8 Roy Ayers' painting

People inquire a lot about one of our most infamous pieces; the Roy Ayers Wax Poetics cover piece from 2004. Here is the story –

The Roy Ayers painting by HVW8 Art Installation was created in Montreal during a live set with Afronaught and Mark Force, from the Bugz in the Attic, during the Goods. I brought back the original painting to Los Angeles from Montreal and gave it to Andre Torres at Funky Sole at Star Shoes for the Wax Poetics cover. Andre took the piece back to Brooklyn. This was the last time I saw it.

A few weeks passed and I asked when we were going to get the piece back. Andre said he had already Fed-Ex’d the painting back to Huntington Beach, where HVW8 had an office within Giant distribution, but didn’t have a tracking number. Fast foward 6 months, Andre finds the tracking number and we find out that the painting was received at Giant distribution and signed for by an employee who was fired that day. This employee then left back to Mexico. Sad thing this piece was never properly documented.

So best bet the HVW8’s Roy Ayers is currently in Tijuana area.

Please let us know if you ever see it! Also never lend out original pieces!

HVW8's Roots Rock Reggae

event: Montreal Jazz Festival 2000
music by: Smith & Mighty
title: “Augustus Pablo”
size: approx 72″ by 72″
medium: Acrylic on canvas

 

event: Montreal Live piece 2004
title: “Coxsone Dodd”
size: approx 42″ by 72″
medium: Acrylic on canvas

 

location: Montreal, Studio
date: December 2001
*for Parco Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
title: “03 on the 03″ (HVW8 3rd Anniversary) – 2001*
dimensions: 12″ by 24”
medium: Acrylic on canvas

 

 

event: HVW8 LIVE IN L.A. Sept.7.02
dj’s: Garth Trinidad (choc city) , Hoseh (dublab, KXLU), Carlos Nino (dublab, todosonidos) , DJ Christine, Mums’s the Word (mindclouders)
title: “Leroy Smart”
dimensions: 96″ by 96″
medium: Acrylic on canvas

 

 

event: Sept. 5. 02, San Francisco, CA: The Top
dj’s: IZ (Joshua) and J-boogie
title: “Mapfumo”
dimensions: 70″ by 70″
medium: Acrylic on canvas

 

Painted By Gene Pendon in 2007. 

Acrylic on Canvas 
Width: 71. inches 
Height: 61.5 inches

 

event: Club Red, Miami 2001
music by: DJ Craze
title: “Cutta and Mellow man on the 03″
dimensions: 70″ by 70”
medium: Acrylic on canvas

 

 

private commission: Los Angeles USA
dimensions: 120″x 168″
medium: Acrylic on canvas

 

Montreal Studio Piece, 2002
title: “Jackie Mittoo”
dimensions: 48″ by 48″
medium: Acrylic on canvas

 

 

event: Bumbershoot (Seattle) 2002
dj’s: BlesOne
title: “Leroy Sibbles”
dimensions: 288″x 108″
medium: Acrylic on canvas

 

 

event: Montreal Live Piece, 2003
title: “Toots”
dimensions: 65″ by 38″
medium: Acrylic on canvas

 

 

event: Montreal Live Piece, 2003
title: “King Tubby”
dimensions: 72″x 47″
medium: Acrylic on canvas

 

 

Video for “Tribute” by Jah Cutta and the Determination Band by HVW8 Production House for 2112 Records. 1998. Filmed in Montreal, specifically in neighborhoods NDG and Old Montreal, as well as in Rainbow-ites Restaurant. Producer – Tyler Gibney, Director – Pablo Aravena, D.P. – Duraid Munajim, Editor – Diego Briceno.

 

Reggae inspired paintings from 1998 to 2006 by HVW8 Art Installation, along with HVW8’s first music video filmed for Jah Cutta and the Determination Band in 1998.

MLK and Obama by HVW8

MLK by Dan Buller and Gene Pendon, Montreal, 2005 
Acrylic on Canvas, 85” by 47”, Live Performance piece.

 

MLK and Obama by Tyler Gibney, Chicago 2009
Acrylic on Canvas, 48” by 72”, Live Performance piece.

 

Obama by Dan Buller, Los Angeles, 2008
Acrylic on Canvas, Silkscreen, 18” by 26”, Studio piece.

 

Hope and Change by Heavyweight Art Installation, Montreal, 2008
Acrylic on Canvas, 36” by 24”, Studio piece.

 

Manifest Hope Mural by Dan Buller and Gene Pendon, Denver, 2008

 

Obama by Tyler Gibney, Los Angeles, 2008

 

Here are a few of the pieces from the past few years by HVW8 Art Installation; Tyler Gibney, Gene Pendon and Dan Buller, in support of Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. Congratulations to Barack Obama on his inauguration.

a audio/visual section

Tandori Yokoo by HVW8 Art Installation, 2002, created Live at Club Milk with Toshio Matsuura of U.F.O. (note piece was lost in Japan in 2002).

Here is a couple unreleased bangers ……

Understand – Blackspade and Skymark

Love We Had – Blackspade feat. TeLuv