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1987
Organized British Airways to sponsor a Los Angeles showing of Vivienne Westwood, John Moore and the House of Beauty and Culture and array of young British talent form the London shop SITE incorporated with the emerging Los Angeles artists and designers.

1992
The generic brand packaging which was a blue stripe on a white background was a laconic statement which lashed at the packaged obsessed pinnacle of consumer culture and become mythos to the post punk generation. The supermarket chain which housed this offered its metaphor in every aisle. It was a cunning statement amidst the brand obsessed eighties and become to many amongst the post punk era an object to turn their consumption into art. In 1992 this generic branding is woven into a ready made label and this unbranded lexicon is sewn in and born as a testimony to this debunking.

1993
Store Windows Lee Quinones NYC

1994
Playboy Archival Exhibition showcased in store and incorporated into t-shirt line

1995
"Posters of Resistance" Label Store NYC Posters and Works From the Cuban Revolution, Student Movement Against The War, and Vietnam Resistance

1995
Label Icon Harold Hunter used as Icon for deconstruction of brand.

1996
Project with Keith Haring Estate allowing Haring works into clothing collection Tara Charne Melanie Magassa collaborators

1997
Faith Photo Campaign which used same model in Muslim and Jewish prayer causing a controversial challenge of the role of separatism Photographer Jamil Gs

1998
Alchemical Imagery of mystical dialogues works which challenge the hermetic connection between the mystical and physics Robert Fludd, Rosicrucian and secret hermetic formulas of the secret doctrine are challenged with the new innovations in physics and the genetic sciences

1999
The Medicated Masses Exhibition of works harboring the pharmaceutical ploy amongst our culture which threaten an Orwellian subjugation subsumed by an agenda of anesthetizing control.

1999
Our Moment is Our Void, Apathy becomes a regimented stream of a new consciousness. The rabid changing world of internet and media technology creates a paradigm shift of desensitization and a need which readily accesses a generation which accesses a feeling of omnipotence in their power to access the past ,present and future, in the push of an enter button .Gone is the era which forced upon a reality to meditate on meaning.

2000
Word Dominion Invoking a Freemason Iconography Manifesto, Label invokes the ritual of the legacy of the infrastructure of world control warning of the corporate entities which have filled the footsteps of this tradition.

2000
Pirates Capitalism Montage of documented works of the timeline of piracy with iconic address of modern robber baron company’s of the present.

2002
Label protest The Invasion Of Iraq with iconic posters of resistance and the hypnosis of militarism.

2003
Culture of Fear Collages which insurrect the climate of disinformation which gives daily threat levels to maintain the subjugation of a carefully contrived agenda

2005
Works of Abstraction Collaborating with artist August Highland in text

2006
Manufactured Doom For Show for Label Gallery opening works which embrace the iconography of consumption. Anonymous manifesto and hand sewn works by Brooke Larson

2007
Stolen Art An exhibition exploring the meaning of art via appropriating the themes of the history of art theft

2008
Avida Dollars The Commercial Works of Salvador Dali Theatre Film Fashion Product Design Book Illustration and packaging Design Textiles and Clothing

2008
Curates Perry Shimon an assemblage show of found art to benefit housing works in greater Los Angeles


*Coming Soon Collages and Paintings by Amber Halford