Iviva Olenick Will Have You in Stiches

Hello World is blessed to welcome yet another amazing woman to the line up of our first in a series of urban art events at The Service Station in Los Feliz. Iviva Olenick is a Brooklyn-based artist focusing on the intersection of women's handcrafts, particularly embroidery; contemporary language; and our reliance on digital media (Facebook, Twitter, text messaging). Muriel Guepin Gallery represents Iviva's small-scale, narrative embroideries in New York City. Additionally, Iviva has exhibited at the Center for Book Arts in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Denise Bibro Fine Art in New York, and other national venues. Currently, Iviva is embroidering Twitter "poetry" through her Brooklyn Arts Council-funded project, @EmbroideryPoems #BrooklynTweets. Tweet her @IvivaOlenick or @EmbroideryPoems, and your "poem" might end up in stitches.

Come and see her work in person this Saturday!

Totally Radi-COL

COL’s work is so powerfully magnetic, it drew urban art curator Luna George all the way across the country to New York last year on a mission to see it in person. Mixing 3d styles and letter silhouettes, COL (Wallnuts, NYC) creates a wide graphical palette with color and movement that pushes and pulls with the strength of street graffiti and the sophistication of avant-garde pop. Using an open medium of acrylics, spray paints, oils, papers and found objects, COL’s works become emotional with an array of surface life; heavy strokes, negative space and strong drip work, with the application of various textures and environments.

Now, as Luna prepares to unveil one of her biggest curation projects yet (Hello World, April 20th at The Service Station), she brings COL’s work to LA, and we are so excited to share it with you. “Without a doubt,” Luna shares, “COL is one of the most talented urban painters out there. I believe in him big time, and I’m so excited to have him in the show.”

We hope COL’s grandmother, a painter and one of his biggest early influencers and supporters, is smiling to know how much her hijo has achieved in his creation. <3

Joseph Bottari is DOPE

Public art is about getting people to notice. It is about drawing the eye, creating a bond through expression, facilitating interaction and new conversations about art, creativity and community. It is sometimes about developing an icon or paying homage to one that already exists. For New Jersey artist / welder / drafter Joseph Bottari, inspiration came in the form of Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE sculpture, which he has adapted to read DOPE in response to what he refers to as “the controversy in today’s world.” The first pieces in this ongoing series will be revealed at Hello World April 20th. 

Let’s keep the conversation going!

Intricate Stencils, Impressive Style: Hello World Welcomes Dave Lowell

Sometimes the absolute skill involved in a piece of art work inspires such awe it helps us to remember why we love art in the first place. Dave Lowell's extremely intricate stencils and free-hand aerosol techniques are one example of art that gets us exhilarated.

With hard-to-match technical cuts and a direct, communicative style have brought Lowell's work to exhibit with legends of the street art genre and current leaders of the new contemporary movement. Hello World is proud to welcome Dave Lowell April 20th at The Service Station.

Exploring the Evolution: Enik One

We're having a great time exploring the evolution of street art through different styles, media and subject matter; through different artists and their stories... and we're so excited to share it with you April 20th at the opening of Hello World, a unique presentation of art and community envisioned by urban art curator, Luna George.

As the show takes shape, we're excited to share the work of EnikOne, a Southern California native who's unique body of work has matured into an amalgamation of graphic designs, mixing his street art, graffiti, typography, stencils, stickers, paste-ups, and silk screens into a style emblematic of the City of Quartz. With over two decades of perfecting these methods on the streets, EnikOne has earned the attention of national and international artists, earning prizes in Los Angeles, Portland, and Germany and has received invitations to show his work in Italy and South Africa among other international locations.

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Hello World, I'm a Writer - DEMER

Demer embodies the original essence of graffiti, passing up the title of "artist," in favor the street-borne category "writer" in homage to the roots of his craft. In a world where so many writers seem to be scrambling to leave their vandalistic origins behind on the way into the art world, this east coast piecer has remained true to his beliefs about graff. 

Meres, Shiro and Demer - NYC

Having started as a writer on NYC subway cars in the early days, Demer has enjoyed success piecing all over the world from France to Greece and all over the United States. His work was included in last year's Whitney Biennial, and he continues to enjoy commercial acclaim for projects with such clients as Raekwon, Donald Trump (for the Apprentice), Coors Light and more. 

Despite having been hired as an artist and included in art world institutions, Defer insists on remaining a "writer." After all, that vandal spirit is still at the heart of this artform. 

See new work from Demer at this month's opening of Hello World at the Service Station, and experience real graffiti.  

Who is The Cat Cult?

Part of the experience of urban LA is the blur of colors and slogans and slurs shouting out at us from structures and walls in the form of graffiti, wheat pastes, signs and even sculpture as we whirl past in our cars, busy at life. And, from time to time, an iconic image begins to crystallize, borne of repetition, size and creative impact. And these iconic images, even neon cats, become embedded in our experience of our environment. Meow!

One creator of such public content is LA artist collective, The Cat Cult, presenting work at urban art curator, Luna George's Hello World, April 20th.

ARTIST BIO:


Cat Cult is a collective of artists who are based in Los Angeles, California. Its participants create work both individually and under the singular identity of Cat Cult, displaying work in galleries as well as on the streets. Cat Cult embraces a variety of mediums, including printmaking, illustration, photography, painting, sewing, and graphic design. From trickster characters to divining spiritual guides, cats have been used throughout history to represent important figures within ancient fables and myths in cultures and societies across the globe. Cat Cult embraces these multidimensional identities that the cat embodies and plays upon these iconic ideas in playful and ironic ways throughout the urban environment.

Embroderies Hardest, Alaina Varrone

Embroidery, something that could very well considered soft and delicate, but what happens when images of girls with axes, girls in coffins and nudity is embroidered?  Embroidery artist Alaina Varrone does just that.  Which is EXACTLY why she is one of the exhibiting artists of HELLO WORLD.  Because seriously...hello world..check this out.  Explore her art and see her mind and realize how cool her concepts really are.

Alaina Varrone is an embroidery artist from New Haven,Connecticut and will be showing her artwork for the upcoming Hello World exhibit opening on April 20, 2013 at The Service Station in Los Feliz.  Born in 1982 to a family of weirdos and storytellers, she uses this to guide her creativity to tell her own stories using embroidery.  She is influences by history, culture and the esoteric, with a focus on strong female characters. 

Welcome to her kingdom...

 

Please join us, April 20, 2013 for the opening of HELLO WORLD featuring artwork by Alaina Varrone and many other talented artists for everyone to explore.  

Fiber Fresh and Yu Cotton-Well

Hello World explores a vast array of talent including that of fiber artists.  From cross stitching, crocheting, embroidery, knitting and more...fiber artists in this show are edgy, fun and full of passion for their craft.  

Yu Cotton-well, a Hello World exhibiting artist, uses fiber as her main medium and often blends it with ordinary objects to connect the relationship between her personal life and her artwork, and also to appeal the audience with a message which is always hidden under anyone's everyday life. Her subject matters often deal with social, political, and cultural issues, but from a domestic perspective, which makes it easier for the audiences to understand and relate them to their own personal experiences. Cotton-well wishes to capture those moments in life where we pause and look inward to reflect our home, root, and even a scent from our childhood because she strongly believes that being aware of our root is an indispensable element for us to make a change in the world that we live in.

Here are some images of some exceptional work by Yu Cotten-well, enjoy and stay tuned for more...

WIP by Inge Vandormael

Very very important, as curator of HELLO WORLD, to show everyone the progress shots of the work being created and shared by the exhibiting artists.  With that being said...special WIP by exhibiting artist Inge Vandormael and her awesome pen and ink work.  Can't wait to see her piece continue to come to life.