VIA PRESS RELEASE | Brooklyn artist and musician Alexander Heir has created one of the defining aesthetics of the contemporary underground music scene, through more than 15 years of design and printing work for countless international punk and metal artists.
His work has graced the albums, singles, and flyers of highly regarded artists such as The Mob, Martin Rev of Suicide, Warthog, and John Carpenter, and his commission work includes ephemera for horror films It Follows and The Puppet Man. Similarly, his clothing brand Death/Traitors has become a counterculture staple, reaching beyond the hardcore punk community, while still embracing its values. Members of Three Six Mafia, Antwon, Fucked Up, and Odd Future have all been known to support the brand.
In addition to his design and commission work, Heir also fronts the industrial punk band L.O.T.I.O.N. and has a prolific artistic practice of personal work. Heir has exhibited around the world, including a solo show at Boo-Hooray in New York City in support of his first book, Death Is Not the End.
WARRR2K∞/Work 2014-17 showcases all of Alexander Heir’s visual work created since the release of his last book, Death Is Not the End, in addition to a new full-color series exclusive to this volume. Expanding upon war, police brutality, political corruption, and death as his canon of punk subject matter, his latest work brings sci-fi and psychedelia influences into the fold, blending them with his impeccable design aesthetic and signature sense of twisted playfulness. The result shows Heir making his most sophisticated, detailed and demented work to date.
NYC Release Party/Show at Boo-Hooray on June 21, 6pm–9pm.
