IN•CONVERSATION

Join us this Friday as part of Gallery Platform LA's annual Gallery Weekend, where the spotlight is on Band of Vices and the West Adams Arts District. We are pleased to announce WhIsBe will be IN•CONVERSATION, discussing the genesis of his Los Angeles solo debut.

Legendary NY street artist WhIsBe brings his unique brand of social commentary to Band of Vices for his first LA solo show, INNOCENCE LOST.   A focus of the show is a commentary on gun culture in the US, as it relates to our youth, in particular, mass school shootings. WhIsBe aims to use art as a powerful, emotive tool to keep the discussion relevant and urgent, as opposed to this happening only in response to news reports of the next mass shooting. Shootings that are happening with a worryingly increasing frequency, lulling the nation (with the help of politicians and media) into a state of numbness and acceptance, that mass shootings of children is unavoidable, and ludicrously, the status quo.

"WhIsBe rips the US political band aid off of the discussion of gun control. He creates a picture that, while colorful and playful on the outside, shows how dark and dangerous we could fall even deeper into the neglect that continues to steal the innocence of children's lives." - Terrell Tilford, Creative Director.

This exhibition is curated by IV Gallery.