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REYES – DOWN FOR YOU – KNOWN GALLERY

VICTOR REYES | Down For You
Opening reception: February 23, 2013 | 8 – 11pm
Show runs: February 23 – March 9, 2013

Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@knowngallery.com

“Down For You” is a new body of work from Victor Reyes.
“Victor Reyes has dedicated more than half of his life to painting. Commitment is evident in his work and is a constant theme in the tradition of the graffiti movement. Dedications are hallmarks, written in tribute for the memory of those who came before us and for those who have departed. “Down for you” is a collection of paintings in oil and spray paint that conjure up an imaginary world of pigments and memories.

These pictures are the building blocks of a new painting language for Victor Reyes. Classical references are deconstructed in primitive strokes to complete these anti-portraits and landscapes. The meanings derived from these pieces are multifaceted. Plain objects, stretched across color fields that combat the frame work to which they are bound and tethered, reveal the excitement of destruction. The momentum and rhythm of these movements obscure earlier marks of beauty and begin to decompose the subject into forms less recognizable.” – Known Gallery

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JURNE & REYES PRINTS TO CLASS UP YOUR LIFE

JURNE –

“Brick City”, 3-color hand-pulled serigraph, composed of handwriting centered on the theme of creating art in the ‘city environment’, 2012. Get it HERE

JURNE –

“DECIDE”, created from a hand-cut paper design that reads “You really get to decide what you want”. Each print was hand-painted first, and then pulled using a blend of different inks to give each print a unique coloration,2012. Get it HERE

REYES –

“Wildcat”, Golden Artist Acrylic Serigraph on Arches
Print making paper 25.5″ x 15″ Edition of 30 Signed
and numbered 40.00 + S H. Get it HERE

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THE SEVENTH LETTER – FALL DROP #3

Introducing the third of four Fall 2011 Tee drops that will be coming out over the next month. These items will be available here on our online store and at one of our authorized dealers across the globe.

Tools of The Trade ( Artwork by Revok)

Brotherhood of Vandals (Artwork by Eklips)

Thieves Theme (Artwork by Rime)

Jealous (Artwork by Revok)

Blocks (Artwork by Revok)

Art Is War (Artwork by Revok)

Reyes Fill (Artwork by Reyes & Eklips)

Break The Law (Artwork by Revok)

Click Clack (Artwork by Rime)

Available now HERE

Find out more at TheSeventhLetter.com

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Reyes – Misspelled – SF

Victor Reyes
MISSPELLED

E6 / ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY
1632 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
July 7, 2010 – August 14, 2010 
Reception: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 6 – 9 pm

Robert Berman / E6 Gallery is pleased to present MISSPELLED, an alphabet by Victor Reyes, handmade in California. The ambitious public art installation turned gallery exhibition explores the artists’ unique approach to graffiti, by dissecting individual letters and exploring the anatomy and architecture found in the symbols we use to communicate. Inspired by San Francisco’s streets, surfaces, and overall visual vibrancy, Reyes reinterprets the letters and presents them to us in a brilliant array of color and movement. These alphabets, recontextualized on various abandoned surfaces around the city, are not intended to provide answers, but to raise questions about how we interpret public spaces and the content assumed within.

Over the past 2 years, Reyes has been diligently painting freestanding alphabets within San Francisco on its many vacant surfaces that resulted from the financial crash in 2008. What started as an initial impulse to push color and movement in a city with a long history of outdoor murals and graffiti has morphed into an attempt to inspire personal and public change in reaction to the economic downturn of recent years.

The individual letters painted in multitude have become an indiscernible narrative written in spray paint and acrylic house paints. These letters adorn trucks, fences, walls and rooftops throughout San Francisco. Alphabets have been strung together and carved out of forgotten spaces, exceeding his original intentions, multiplying in numbers.

Reyes’ restlessness in California over the last two years is portrayed in the landscapes and figures formed out of these letters. Often using the juxtaposition of vibrant colors and dirt, his unique hand-painted characters are meant to exist on their own, an unconventional quality unseen with most street writing. Their message is scattered and fleeting, open to interpretation; The letters are ephemeral, constantly weathering, fading over time, and are often facing neighborhood intervention. The placement of letters on the sides of panel trucks that disappear at the change of a stoplight exemplifies the alphabet’s physical mobility, in most cases leaving us with only a photograph as proof of their existence. Since the projects inception in 2008, Reyes has executed over forty site-specific murals around the city, as well as created countless studies and mixed media works for the exhibition.

In addition to the street installation and gallery exhibition MISSPELLED will also take on the form of a 104 page book documenting the story of these alphabets and how they came to be. It will include photographs, studies and reproductions of the murals and works featured in the exhibition. The release of the book will coincide with the opening of the exhibition, and will be available throughout the show.

Reyes has been painting since the early 90s, and has shown extensively around the world, in Bosnia, Germany, Switzerland, Taipei, Japan, and Miami. Recent shows include blue.print.for.space/Primary Flight at Miami Art Basel 2009, Public Provocations at Carhartt Projects in Germany, Will Rise at Robert Berman Gallery (Los Angeles) in 2008, and Letters First, a traveling show in Japan/Korea/Barcelona 2006-2008. Reyes is inspired by his peers, including a community of new California artist’s “The Seventh Letter” who have had integral role in the development and motivation for this body of work.

“The photos and illustrations capture a time in my life when I was able to make this work for a city I love and labor in.” — Victor Reyes, July 2010

E6 1632 market street, san francisco, ca 94102 (p) 415.558.9975
ROBERBERMANGALLERY

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