HUBERT NEAL JR.

In our coLAB space, Band of Vices' is pleased to present Hubert Neal, Jr’s solo debut with us, NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

Originally from Chicago, the Los Angeles-based artist uses playful imagery to pull the viewer in and strikes them with the continuous reminder of police assaults on Black and Brown communities. As childhood trauma holds a constant metaphor of the plague of war that our “boys in blue” have instituted on under-represented people, the artist “ uses a combination of playful, striking, and haunting imagery to portray victims of police violence in order to evoke an emotional response, an alternative call to action through art, rather than waiting for the next video of the murder to do it, and away to keep the memories of the victims alive. The issues with acceptable uses of force, systemic racism, and corruption in the nation’s police departments are an ongoing epidemic seeded deeply in a historical culture of oppression.”