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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
DETROIT BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT – Chapter 1
The Detroit Beautification Project assembled artist’s from around the globe. With the the common goal to bring vibrancy back to one of America’s greatest cities.
Presented By Montana Cans, The Seventh Letter, 1xRun, Contra Projects
-Video By Bankshot
REYES – RIME – OAKLAND
Last week I had a chance to paint large wall in Oakland with REYES. We buffed the wall white and Reyes went to work freestyling red and black designs with a fat cap.
Taking in what Reyes laid down, I improvised in turning random shapes or patterning into characters.
VICTOR REYES – THE JUNGLE
COMING UP SOON…
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VICTOR REYES / THE JUNGLE
Opening: March 24, 2012 | 8 – 11 pm
Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@knowngallery.com
Show runs March 24 – April 7, 2012
Find out more at KNOWN GALLERY
KNOWN GALLERY PRINT PROGRAM / JAN. 2012
Patrick Martinez | “Hate and Love (Fighter)” – Release date: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Patrick Martinez’s most recent print “Hate and Love (Fighter)” is a serigraph reproduction of his 2011 mixed media piece. The original was executed in a mixed media on acrylic plex and neon which measures 48″ x 40″. This piece was first shown at Martinez’s solo show at Known Gallery entitled “HUSTLEMANIA” The piece represents the warrior instinct side of humans and the simple yet complex idea of love and hate. This print will be available exclusively online at KnownGalleryStore.com on Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 12pm Pacific Standard Time.
“Hate and Love (Fighter)” by Patrick Martinez
Medium: Serigraph
Size: 36″ x 39″
Colors: 7, Hand Pulled
Substrate: Coventry Rag 320 g/sm
Signed and Numbered Edition: 70
Printed by Modern Multiples for Known Gallery
$350.00 +s/h at: KnownGalleryStore.com
VICTOR REYES | “BLACK LETTER TYPE SET” – Release date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The “Black Letter Type Set” was printed In San Francisco, California and features a unique alphabet illustrated by Victor Reyes from the subject of his show “Misspelled” 2010 San Francisco, CA. This “Type Set” explores the qualities of Black Letter and Old English as well as their appropriation to west coast graffiti lettering. Easy to frame yourself this type set is classic and can transform any interior or office into an emblematic array of Letter Set variations. The “Black Letter Type Set” will be released on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 12pm Pacific Standard Time.
“BLACK LETTER TYPE SET ” by Victor Reyes | Known Gallery exclusive print
Medium: Hand made wooden box containing 26 (A-Z) hand-pulled by artist serigraphs printed with Golden artist acrylic on archival artist cardstock.
Each print size: 12″ x 12″
Edition: 26
Signed with numbered certificate of authenticity from Known Gallery and the artist.
Complete type set box with 26 prints: $300.00 +s/h at: KnownGalleryStore.com
ERIC HAZE | “S-ISM” – Release date: Saturday, January 28, 2012
Known Gallery is proud to offer this limited edition serigraph print by ERIC HAZE named S-ISM. This print was produced by Modern Multiples and 10 of them will be available exclusively online at KnownGalleryStore.com on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at at 12pm Pacific Standard Time.
“S-ISM” by Eric Haze
Medium: Hand-pulled serigraph on Coventry Rag Vellum 320 gm/wt
Size: 54.25″ x 42″
Editions available online:
Silver and Black: 5 of 10
Steel and Silver: 5 of 20
Printed by Modern Multiples
$600.00 + s/h at: KnownGalleryStore.com
NORM AWR | “ALWAYS” – Release date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Norm’s “Always” serigraph was printed by Modern Multiples in a four color ways for his June 2011 show at Known Gallery named ALWAYS. This print will be available exclusively online at KnownGalleryStore.com on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 12pm Pacific Standard Time.
“Always” by Norm AWR
Medium: Serigraph
Size: 31″ x 58.5″
Colors: 5, Hand Pulled
Substrate: Coventry Rag 320 gsm
Signed and Numbered Editions:
Blue version: 25 / Pink version: 22 / Gold/Black version: 11
Printed by Modern Multiples for Known Gallery
$250.00 + s/h at: KnownGalleryStore.com
Find out more at KNOWNGALLERY.COM
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
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
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TSL x SURU | Collabo T-Shirt Collection
With the release and signing of The Seventh Letter x VOX Shoe Series this Saturday, we bring you a sneak peek at the The Seventh Letter x SURU collection a day before the release. The limited edition collaboration tees were designed by members of the world famous Seventh Letter crew: Bert Krak, Reyes and Rime.
MSK Crew Detail Shots By CeeThree
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