LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Saturday, October 28, Downtown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery premiered the new solo exhibition from Internationally known street artist HUSH in Gallery 2. Titled “Remix,” this exhibition is the artist’s third solo with the gallery and features all new works, including paintings and works on paper.

HUSH's unique style is recognizable through its focus on the female form set within backgrounds filled with an expressionist’s freedom of layering and color. The serene balance of traditional painting is combined with a messier passion, influenced by the Western traditions of action painting and graffiti, culminating in a harmony that feels surprisingly natural.

The artist’s mark-making bears the distinct aesthetic of tagging, bringing the rough texture of street art into each piece. Swift gestural marks underlie splashes of paint, looping through lines and over bright combinations of color. With an in-depth technique that includes painting, screen printing and spray-painting, HUSH creates work that instantly draws the eye in and holds the viewer’s focus. Patterns ranging from geometric repetition to florals that conjure up images of royal tapestries and delicately decorated vases are not solely confined to the background but often take shape, forming graceful fabrics. In some works these shapes appear solidly, while in others the central figures are only lightly delineated from the waves of pattern, body and background blending, as if they are sinking into the colorful composition itself.

Formally trained for five years at the Newcastle school of art and design, HUSH took to painting after years spent working as an art director in the Far East. His work translates directly from street to gallery; recent sold-out shows include “Fatales” in London, “Unseen” at Corey Helford Gallery and “Sirens” at Metro (Melbourne).

His collaborations include a range with Burton snowboards and he was featured in The Independent, for the British newspaper’s 2008 list of “Twenty Up and Coming Artists.” In 2016, HUSH was commissioned by the TAO GROUP to curate and make 8 large murals for VANDAL New York Lounge, which was featured in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal with high acclaim, as well as being featured on NBC’s The Blacklist. HUSH was commissioned by the executive producer of the Starz hit mini-series Flesh and Bone to paint the mural that’s prominently featured throughout the show, outside the main character Claire Robbins’ Brooklyn apartment.

Born in 1976, HUSH resides and works from his hometown of Newcastle upon Tyne, northern England.