LA-based artist and designer Eric Elms celebrated his "ViewSonic" LA exhibition opening this past month on March 8th at HVW8 Gallery. “ViewSonic” showed Elms' latest paintings from his two series titled “Halftone” and “Stair.” Guests were also able to view and purchase exclusive merch, prints, and his book. The exhibition is still showing now through more...
HVW8 Gallery and adidas Originals presented 'Creative Class', a pop-up exhibition celebrating diversity and artistic expression with five artists–Kilo Kish, Brian Lotti, Atiba Jefferson, Inés Longevial, and Lisa Leone–working across a spectrum of mediums. A series of performances, interactive workshops, and artist talks accompanied the show. The exhibition more...
Celebrating the intersection between fashion, art, and music, Adidas and HVW8 announce the release of new artwork on Seeley and Adi Ease styles from two of the design world’s most inspiring minds: Kevin Lyons and Jean André. On Saturday, November 15, HVW8′s West Hollywood gallery will kick off an international series of events celebrating these collaborations more...
Parra premiered “Same Old Song” exhibit June 28 at HVW8 Gallery. Parra’s fifth exhibition at HVW8 includes new paintings and drawings of his trademark, beaked humanoids in highly saturated colors. “Same Old Song” seems to represent familiar situations in not-so-familiar form. Parra’s figures are naked, angry and face down in puddles more...
Dutch artist Parra has teamed up with Los Angeles art gallery HVW8 to showcase his new artwork in an exhibition titled "Kind Regrets." The exhibition debuted Parra's new collection of drawings, paintings, and sculptures that play off his dynamic characters that combine human are birdlike features. As an extension of his creativity, Parra created a black and white more...
On Friday June 29th history was made at the HVW8 Gallery with the debut of "New Exchange" featuring Brainfeeder's own Mtendere Mandowa "Teebs" alongside with the globe trotting Charles Munka. An eclectic (as you can imagine) crowd of people flooded the gallery and socialized amongst a soundtrack peppered with New, Old School and Underground Hip-Hop jams. In a more...
On March 14th Los Angeles got a treat all the way from France in the form of the artist Jean Andre. This marked the date of his first solo exhibition in the US entitled "Gauloise" which translates to the word 'bawdy' (meaning: dealing with sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent)..there's your vocabulary lesson for the day, now i challenge you to use it more...
Photographer, musician, writer, activist, and community organizer Senay Kenfe sits down with HVW8 Gallery in their new episode of Screen 2 Screen. Over the past 15 years, the Long Beach native has collaborated with artists from around the world, as well as worked on projects from documenting graffiti in Brazil and Egypt to leading clean water filtration projects in more...
