The Debut issue of Installation Magazine, a rad California based culture arts publication, did a pretty rad piece with a bunch of my photos in it. It is available now in print version and online. Check their website for more info.

A few screenshots of the article. Go pick it up to check the whole thing.

Sam McGee is gracing the windows of local malibu surf and skate shop Drill with a Freedom Artists ad that I shot (the portrait). Peep game!

Here are a few of the RVCA adverts that have been running in the mags recently that feature a bunch of the “lifestyle” images I have been shooting with them!  Click for

Matt Archibold for RVCA. Really stoked to be working with such a good group of dudes at rvca.

Now that the show is completely done and the fat lady has sung, i finally got around to doing a little recap. Also, we just released a limited edition shirt. CLICK HERE to check it.

Thanks to Sage Vaughn and Brendan Lynch for doing the best pieces ever, Known Gallery, the Seventh Letter, Casey Eklips, RVCA, Pat Tenore, Punker Pat, and Casey Holland. LA Weekly and Shelley Leopold, Matt Rapf for the ipod, Amoeba for gift cards and bags, M Cafe for gift cards. J-Hurt, Laura, Stacey, Willy Wonka, and Lee/Push for helping out with getting the show up and presentable and Kohshin Finley for shooting photos of the prep and opening.

Thanks to my family, friends and everyone that came out. The following photos were taken by me, casey from RVCA, Kohshin Finley, Pascal and the Cobra Snake. Click for

RVCA shirt for the show they designed! Knock off of the SURF NYC shirt from Saturdays surf shot in Manhattan.

Brendan Lynch’s sticky bumps on wood panel.

Glass and Cement and Glitter. Brendan Lynch

Surf Den by Sage Vaughn!

Black Ball flag flying.

Me geeking out and taking obligatory photo with the sign before we razorbladed it off.

Pat Tenore

Tick and stan.

Shakas from Bwood to NYC back to Fairfax.

Me and Brendan

Pat Jensen Freedom Artists!

Tailgate truck bro’s.

The legend Sage Vaughn

Me and my awesome Mom.

Trav Grom!

Full house and full street.

This weekend, on January 15th from 8-11, I will have the opening of my first solo photo exhibition at the beautiful Known Gallery on Fairfax in Los Angeles.

I have been working tirelessly on this collection of images and installations, and my friends Brendan Lynch and Sage Vaughn will also be showing work in the Project room. I got a good look at the final prints the other day before they were sent off to the framer and I can’t begin to say how excited I was to see the body of work all together in its final stages. It was a mix of pure joy and excitement as tears almost filled my eyes as we rolled open the images, one by one, my face grinning ear to ear as each passed by. The gallery is beautiful and the installation is going to be amazing. Please come out and hang, have a drink, find me, say hi, and enjoy the night with a bunch of us.

Thanks to EVERYONE for all the support, including everyone who checks this site out. Below are some words describing the motivation for this collection of images.

“The ocean is and always has been the epicenter of my existence on this planet. I am an aquanaut on a thruster in this ever amazing and boundless liquid energy. I have optimized and streamlined my life to ensure maximum time gliding across water. Every choice and relationship, all decisions and waking thoughts (and most dreams) are influenced and infused by the pull of the tides, the whiff of an offshore breeze, and the lucid corduroy lines gracefully stampeding
towards the coast.

I go to the sea to surf, to bond with friends or to be alone, to let out aggression or to find inner peace. The moving ocean is my solid ground. The moment one stands up on a board, propelled by a wave racing across the sea, one is only aware of the present – nothing else. I have never found any other way to achieve that absolutely pure and meditative mindstate.

Open Space is my expression of the state one falls into while floating weightless off shore, looking out to sea, hoping and waiting for the next set. Troubles are isolated far away on the unreality of land, while you are free in the truest reality of water. It is a timeless unspoilable state that cannot be ruined, not even by the angry local that may be slashing your tires and waxing your windows simply because he doesn’t want to share some waves. To a surfer it’s an understandable
act of necessary evil to keep an ungoverned subculture in form, and from it breaking into full bore beachblanket-bingo havoc.

Open Space is a collection of images, collages, and installations that evoke the balance in my life.”
Cheers,Keegan

Click for full invite and Press Release. MEDIA ALERT – For Immediate Release
FOR MORE INFORMATION/MEDIA CREDENTIALS/SHOW CATALOG PDF:
Casey Zoltan, Curatorial Director / KNOWN GALLERY info@knowngallery.com

KEEGAN GIBBS: OPEN SPACE
with INSTALLATIONS by SAGE VAUGHN and BRENDAN LYNCH
Opens to public: January 15, 2011
Runs: January 15 – February 5, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 15, 8-11pm

Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
310-860-6263 info@knowngallery.com

KNOWN GALLERY PRESENTS “OPEN SPACE” PHOTOGRAPHER KEEGAN GIBBS’ FIRST SOLO SHOW

Keegan Gibbs has traveled all over the world in his role as one of the principal photographers for the Seventh Letter graffiti crew, so it is only natural that the Known Gallery chose to host his debut photography exhibit. Known Gallery director Casey Zoltan comments “I really respect his work ethic and his dedication to capturing the moment at any cost.” Fear has no place when shooting images of the renowned Seventh Letter artists in action fifty feet above ground at 2 AM whilst dodging headlights and billy clubs. Likewise fear has no place while shooting film in the treacherous and sometimes deceptively peaceful oceans of the world, the featured subject of this exhibit called OPEN SPACE.

Keegan, an avid lifelong surfer, explains his attraction to the water and the concept behind the large format prints in OPEN SPACE: “The ocean is the epicenter of my existence on this planet. I am an aquanaut on a thruster in this ever amazing and boundless source of liquid energy. For me every choice and relationship, all decisions and waking thoughts (and most dreams) are influenced and infused by the pull of the tides, the whiff of an offshore breeze, and the lucid corduroy lines gracefully stampeding towards the coast. Open Space is a collection of images, collages, and installations that evoke that balance in my life.”

ABOUT KEEGAN GIBBS: Born in a family of artists, Keegan Gibbs was literally skateboarding and bicycling while still in diapers (his parents have video to prove it). Raised by the ocean, this aquatic biped found the best way to express his love of all things salt water, was through photography. When not shooting, his main goal is to surf as much as he possibly can and to find the hollowest tube, the longest wave, and the most crackable lip.
ABOUT SAGE VAUGHN:
b 1976 in Jackson, Oregon – Lives and works in Los Angeles – Goofyfoot
Solo show at Lazarides opening May 5, 2011
(sagevaughn.com)

ABOUT BRENDAN LYNCH:
Education
School of Visual Arts, BFA 2009
Selected shows
2010, Press Release, Martos gallery, New York, NY
2010, While it Lasts, Still House studio, New york, NY
2010, Volume, AT1 projects, Los Angeles, CA Curated by Andrea Neustein
2010, Worth, 211 Elizabeth St. , New York, Ny
2010, Objects that love you back, 211 Elizabeth St. , New york, NY
2009, Still House, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
2009, The Open, Deitch Projects, Long Island City, NY
2009, MIXTAPE, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2009, New Deal, Art Production Fund, New York, NY Curated by Matthew Moreveck and Kyle Thurman
2008, Here Goes Nothing, The National Arts Club, New York, NY
(www.groodstuff.tumblr.com)

ABOUT KNOWN GALLERY:
Founded in 2003 by Casey Zoltan, instigator of the world renown art collective,
The Seventh Letter. After curating major traveling art tours in Italy, France, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Spain and the US,
Zoltan decided to settle in his native Los Angeles. Known is a 5500 sq ft space with gleaming white floors in the heart
of the Fairfax District. (knowngallery.com)

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Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
310-860-6263

Hours during shows:
Wednesday thru Saturday: 12 – 7pm
Sunday: 12 – 6pm

The new 7th letter line is available now which I designed a small series for. Purchase shirts at Karma Loop.

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Here are 34 images from my trip to Mexico with my friends at RVCA, as well as some of the video I shot and edited. Look for the upcoming RVCA movie, “Sharing Water” dropping this winter.

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Just got back home from a photo job in Indianapolis to pleasantly find a package from some rad guys in Australia.

A few months back I got an email from a guy named Jeff in Australia about using an image of mine for an upcoming magazine’s debut issue. This is the first offering from “Here to Fame” and I was really stoked to open the package and see my image on the cover of a magazine so well put together. Stoked to be a part of the first issue, and hopefully more to come.

Click HERE to download the issue for free!

The cover image was shot at my apartment while I was living in New York last year. My friend Dylan Kawahara stuck her legs out the window on a hot spring day.

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Teamed up with my friends at Freedom Artists and did a t-shirt design. The photograph is from one of the first days of my first trip to Indonesia 3 years ago. Check out Freedom Artists HERE! and hit them up about getting one for yourself.

What would be a better place to be the first shop to sell the shirt other than, Drifter Surf Shop in Bali, Indonesia. I brought over a dozen shirts to them in the spring, and they flew off the shelves in the first week or two! Best surf shop in Bali with really cool product, and run by even cooler people Tim Russo and Jake Mackenzie.  So if you are ever in the area, definitely check it out. Click for some more photos of the T-shirt and Drifter surf shop.

Pat Jensen of Freedom Artists hand pulling one of the first tests. All iphone photos!

First try, colors were a tad off.

more green mixing…

weight in gold.

The film to burn the screen.

And below, Drifter Surf Shop on Jl. Oberoi! Get there and get some!