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HVW8 NEWS
Tue 08 July 2008
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SHIRIN EBADI
Acrylic painting
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JOSEPHINE BAKER
Acrylic painting
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Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson on June 7, 1958; Mount Sinai Hospital), known as (or informally, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince) from 1993 to 2000, is a popular and influential American musician. His music has spanned myriad styles; though his early material was firmly rooted in R&B, funk and soul, he has constantly expanded his musical palette throughout his career, absorbing many other genres including new wave, pop, rock, blues, jazz, and hip-hop. The distinctive characteristics of the early-to-mid 1980s work which brought him to superstardom (which include sparse and industrial-sounding drum machine arrangements, as well as the use of synthesizer riffs to fulfill the role traditionally occupied by horn riffs in earlier R&B, funk & soul music) became known as the "Minneapolis sound," which proved heavily influential. He has a reputation as a workaholic, having released over a thousand songs both under his own name and through other artists, and is known for having composed and recorded many more songs that remain unreleased. Regarded as a perfectionist, Prince has a reputation as being somewhat difficult to work with, and for being highly protective of his music. He writes, composes, and produces most of his music single-handedly, and plays most of the instruments on his albums. He also is a well-known songwriter for other artists, and some of those songs have topped the charts as well. Critics and colleagues have referred to the quality of Prince's work and its versatility as being indicative of musical genius.
Size: 77” by 71”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Painted Live in Montreal at HVW8’s 8th anniversary, 2006
Price: 1500
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Born in 1947, Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist and winner of the 2003 Noble Peace Prize. She served as the president of the city court of Tehran and became one of the first female judges in Iran and is celebrated for her research and work to promote peaceful democratic solutions to serious social concerns. Her work represents reformed Islam, the harmony of Islamic law with human rights, equality and freedom of speech. She is an activist for human rights and has written numerous books on the struggle for women and children’s rights in Iran. Ebadi has displayed her personal courage, defending both herself and colleagues, writers and intellectuals, many who were killed or, like Ebadi herself, imprisoned under a harsh political system functioning by inhumane interpretations of Islam.
Size: 62” by 40” (stretched)
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Painted in Montreal at the HVW8 studios, 2003
Painted by: Gene Starship and Dan Buller
Price: 1200.
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Josephine Baker grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, but left home at an early age and began performing on stage. She appeared in the chorus lines of all-black revues on vaudeville, and travelled to Paris in 1925 as part of La Revue Negre. Her lithe body and clowning around on stage caused a sensation, and by the 1930s she was so successful she had her own nightclub. Baker was famous for her exotic outfits and uninhibited sexuality, her trademarks being a leopard on a leash, a skirt made of feathers and a dance in which she wore bananas on her head and not much else. In 1937 she became a citizen of France, and during World War II she worked with the Resistance against the Nazis. After the war she fought for civil rights in the United States, returned to France and retired in 1956 to look after her 12 adopted children. In the late '60s Baker was rescued from destitution by Princess Grace, who helped Baker put on another stage show, Josephine. She died in 1975 and was given a state funeral in Paris.
Size: 94” by 47”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Painted Live in Montreal, 2005
Painted by: Gene Starship and Dan Buller
Price: 1200.
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STEVIE WONDER
Acrylic painting
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Acrylic painting
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SHYAA 2
Acrylic painting
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Stevie Wonder is the stage name of Stevland Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Judkins), an American singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, and social activist. Wonder has recorded more than 30 Top 10 hits, won 21 Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), also one for lifetime achievement, he has won an Oscar for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame.
Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as an adolescent, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day. He has become one of the most successful and well-known artists in the world, with nine U.S. number-one hits to his name and album sales totaling more than 100 million units. Wonder has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his labelmates and outside artists as well. A multi-instrumentalist, Wonder plays the drums, congas, bass guitar, organ and most famously the piano, keyboard and harmonica. Critics and colleagues have referred to the quality of Wonder's work and its versatility as being indicative of musical genius.
Size: 18” by 18”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Painted in Los Angeles, 2006
Painted by: Gene Starship and Dan Buller
Price: 350.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American political activist, the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement, and a Baptist minister. Considered a peacemaker throughout the world for his promotion of nonviolence and equality treatment for different races, he received the Nobel Peace Prize before he was assassinated in 1968. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter in 1977, the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004, and in 1986, Martin Luther King Day was established in his honor. King's most influential and well-known speech is "I Have A Dream."
Size: 85” by 47”
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Painted Live in Montreal, 2005
Painted by: Gene Starship and Dan Buller
Price: 1000.
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This piece was created for SK8 ON THE WALL, a skateboard art exhibition in Tokyo.
Size: 8” by 10”
Medium: Acrylic on skate deck
Painted in Montreal
Painted by: Gene Starship and Dan Buller
Price: 250.
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Heavyweight Production House, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA, Montreal, Qc
Gallery/Store/Studio
661 N. Spaulding, Los Angeles, 90036
p: (1) 323 655 HVW8 (4898)
info@hvw8.com
www.hvw8.com
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