Junk Food's Superhero Makeover
From left Anthony Lister and Andrei Najjar at HVW8 Art+Design Gallery
In this summer of superhero movies, it would be safe to say that Captain America and the X-Men did not wear the latest streetwear styles when battling evil doers.
But quicker than you can say ’Holy Makeover,” some of the well-worn members of the superhero pantheon were given tough guy, wild-style looks courtesy of Los Angeles’ pop culture/vintage premium T-shirt label Junk Food and its new line Junk Food Art House.
The superhero makeover started when Junk Food Art House partnered with Australian artist Anthony Lister to give a streetwear/wanted poster mug shot treatment to DC Comics superheroes Green Lantern, Batgirl, The Flash, Wonder Woman and Aquaman.
These graffiti-inspired supermugs were on display July 29 at a debut party for Junk Food’s Art House label the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery in Hollywood. Junk Food Art House Presents Anthony Lister Art House will be the first of the label’s limited edition collections bearing the images of up-and-coming artists as well as celebrated painters and others seen in prominent galleries.
Andrei Najjar, Junk Food’s vice-president, said the Junk Food Art House T-shirts would be for the connoisseur, and so far the line has sold at luxury department stores across the world such as Selfridge’s in the U.K., Collette in France and Beams in Japan. By November, it will be sold stateside.
Gracing the Art House/HvW8 party was Roger Gastman, co-curator of The Museum of Contemporary Arts’graffiti obsessed Art in the Streets show, as well as artist Shark Toof, Willard Ford, founder of the 722 Figeroa fashion and furniture showroom, as well as Lady Tigra, MC for late 1980s/early 1990s hip hop duo L’Trimm.
Anthony Lister's take on Batgirl
Anthony Lister's version of Green Lantern
