HVW8 takes part in Manifest Equality. Shirin Ebadi by piece by the HVW8 Art Installation.

Distant Relatives piece by Gene Pendon for HVW8.

HVW8’s Gene Pendon contributed to this year’s Syracuse Cultural Worker’s Peace Calender.

Royalites are paid to the originator of the written quote, Kiari Day a single-mother living near Pittsburgh.

http://syracuseculturalworkers.com/

About SCW Peace Calendar:
http://syracuseculturalworkers.com/calendar-2010-peace-calendar

About Artwork and Quote, from SCW:
Gene Pendon’s thoughtful tribute to the election of Barack Obama uses words from Pennsylvania single-mother Kiari Day to place this milestone firmly within the framework of the struggle for civil rights. It reminds us that much work remains if we are to bring freedom, justice, dignity and equal opportunity to all Americans.

This simple slogan movingly connects the past to the present, creating a memorable slice of people’s history. These three people are, of course, symbols for the millions of dedicated Americans who work tirelessly for justice and peace.

“Many of you have probably seen the Rosa Sat… quote circulating the web. We hunted down the originator of the quote, Kiari Day a single-mother living near Pittsburgh, and are paying her a royalty. I call it ‘closing the circle of justice.’” -Dik Cool, Founder SCW

About Syracuse Cultural Workers

Founded in 1982, SCW is a progressive publisher committed to peace, sustainably, social justice, feminism and multiculturalism.

Our mission is to help create a culture that honors diversity and celebrates community; that inspires and nurtures justice, equality and freedom; that respects our fragile Earth and all its beings; that encourages and supports all forms of creative expression.

SCW sees cultural work as an essential part of and support for political and economic change. Many of SCW’s materials celebrate movements for social change and their leaders, thus helping to legitimize history that is largely ignored or trivialized by commercial media and school textbooks. SCW also helps to unite socially concerned artists with a growing audience hungry for meaningful artwork.

$1,200.00

Bomb

Beached Mind – Geoff McFetridge

15″x12″

Gouache on Paper

Snap Back #2 (Camoflage)

Artist Geoff McFetridge

44″x30″

original gouache painting on paper.

original painting.

$1200.

New pieces posted for sale in the online store.

More pieces from Geoff McFetridge, Michael Leon and Kevin Lyons shorty.

email info(at)hvw8.com for information.

This Oct. 22nd to 26th, HVW8 artist Gene Pendon takes part in the Toronto International Art Fair with Yves Laroche Gallery.

Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West, North Building, Exhibit Hall A & B , Booth # 238.
http://www.tiafair.com/

At tomorrows ‘The Site of NOW’ show there will be a small section on display from the “Barnstomers vs. Heavyweight”  Live painting session that was done in Montreal in 2001. It featured Montreal artists from Heavyweight; Gene Pendon, Tyler Gibney, Dan Buller with the NYC based collective Barnstomers; featuring David Ellis, Rostarr, Mike Ming, Jose ‘Ease’ Parla.

The piece was done at a large party in Montreal with music by Rich Media, with the artists going over each other back and forth. The final was a bit of a drunken mess but still cool to check out.

On display through Oct. 3 to 15th at Royal/T in Culver City, Los Angeles, CA.

R to L: Gene Pendon, Tyler Gibney, Dan Buller, RoStarr, David Ellis, Jose Parla, Mike Ming, and ?

The SITE of NOW

Opening Oct. 3rd, 7 to 11 pm

“The SITE of Now” exhibition will be a “Best of” collection from the past two years of artists from the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery. Select pieces from the past ten years of HVW8 Art Installation and exclusive private collections will also be on view. The exhibit will feature artwork from such noteworthy artists as Parra, Brent Rollins, Kevin Lyons, HVW8 Art Installation (Gene Pendon, Tyler Gibney and Dan Buller) and Winston Tseng.

Curated by Tyler Gibney.

The SITE of NOW

artwork from :
Brent Rollins (Brooklyn)
HVW8 Art Installation (Montreal/Los Angeles)
Kevin Lyons (Philadelphia)
Willo Perron (Montreal/LA)
HVW8 vs Brnstrmers (2001)
Raif Adelberg (Vancouver)
Tyler Gibney (Los Angeles)
Parra (Amsterdam)
Winston Tseng (NYC)
skypager (Los Angeles)
+ more

Also shown will be Select works from collectors Sharifa and Eduardo Burillo; including a limited-edition print by Basquiat, pieces by Blek Le Rat, Nick Walker, eelus and Andy Warhol’s Brillo boxes by Charles Lutz.

HVW8 Pop up shop with
T-shirts
Prints

Music performance on opening night by:
Coultrain
DJ Thee Mike B

Please rsvp to: rsvp@royal-t.org, keyword: site

show runs until Oct 15th.
opens Oct. 3rd , 7 to 11pm

at Royal/T
8910 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
T 310 559 6300

show runs until Oct 18th.

For more than ten years, HVW8 Production House has blurred the lines between art, music and design. Established in 1998 in Montreal, Canada, HVW8 Production House’s initial artistic endeavor was the HVW8 Art Installation with artists Tyler Gibney, Gene Pendon and Dan Buller. After the group’s first “live painting” performance series at the Montreal Jazzfest, HVW8 started touring the world creating live pieces along side musicians such as the Herbalizer, Roots Manuva and Africa Bambaata, while holding exhibitions at such esteemed galleries as Parco in Tokyo, Museo De Arte De Puerto Rico in San Juan and MOCCA (Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art). HVW8 then created the acclaimed installation series “Political Minded” in 2004, which showcased in pop-up galleries in NYC, Montreal, L.A. and San Francisco.

In 2005, The HVW8 Art + Design gallery was established in Los Angeles as a studio + gallery space for HVW8 and friends. The current mandate is to support avant-garde graphic design, such as Dutch designer/illustrator Parra, Swedish design house SSON, skateboard company enjoi and American designer’s Brent Rollins, Kevin Lyons and Ray Noland. Most recently, HVW8 Records was founded in 2008. Look out for upcoming releases by Red “the Man Without the Machine,” Master Blazter feat. Computer Jay, J-1 and Dam-Funk and Hawthorne Headhunters with Black Spade/Stoney Rock.

Basquiat

Raif Adelberg

Parra

HVW8 Art Installation

“LaHoya vs. Pac-man” by Gene Pendon 2009.

Part of the “Rise” exhibition in Toronto which Dan Buller and Gene Pendon contribute. Also featuring Nunca (Brazil) and Roadsworth.

more info:
http://www.themanifesto.ca/

Obama – Hope and Change 2008

Noam Chomsky – 2003

Rene Lévesque – 2004

Angela Davis – 2004

Paul Krugman – 2004

Past pieces by the HVW8 Art Installation for it’s Political Minded series.

Art and Politics are tricky bedfellows, which is again demonstrated in the controversy over the role of the NEA and the promotion of policy objectives. The role of art in politics isn’t truly defined, but its presence is regularly invited and appreciated. HVW8 works to open dialogue and to include those in the conversation that will be impacted. We can only note that completely shutting the door rather than keeping that conversation open derides youth involvement.

(For the record we’re Canadian and don’t qualify for NEA funding).

read:

Yosi Sergant, Obama Aide, Asked To Resign: Glenn Beck Strikes Again http://tinyurl.com/m2sacd

The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion? http://tinyurl.com/nc7hrl

Gene Starship works on new HVW8 artwork for Waajeed and Coultrain in the Montreal studio.