Heavyweight Production House was formed in the spring of 1998 in Montreal, Canada out of the collaborative efforts of a group of like-minded artists and designers to create a vehicle for their art & design work. Drawing from the urban environment, Heavyweight developed a mix-blend of styles & skills accumulated from a free association of intuitive interests - peripheral influences included rare groove album covers, Japanese hyper-pop styles, dub soundscapes, graffiti burns, skate graphics and turntable culture.

Heavyweight tapped into a growing artistic community, extending its creative network to include producers, DJs, musicians, filmmakers as well as other artists and designers. What surfaced was a Heavyweight version, street-style campaign of underground parties, music & art shows, posters, flyers and stickers all housed and produced under one roof - forming the main elements of Heavyweight's creative foundation in art and design.

Heavyweight Production House operates under the direction of Tyler Gibney and Gene Pendon, collaborating with an extended family of creative professionals in art & design. Recent clients include: Levi's, Ninjatune Records, Absolut and Wax Poetics magazine.

Heavyweight Art Installation
One of the principle artistic projects of Heavyweight Production House, the Heavyweight Art Installation is made up of Tyler Gibney,Gene Starship and Dan Buller. The three artists work in collaboration, not unlike the dynamic that came from past mural jobs,graffiti exploits, art parties, and comic jams, to create painted 6'x6' (2mx2m) compositions live within club settings and before music audiences. Using the environment as inspiration - a heavy bass, a steady beat, the vibe and the beat-oriented people - the painters instantly blend ideas onto the canvas, sampled from a rolodex of sketchbook images, Polaroids, old photographs, pop iconography and brush techniques. With each painting taking about three hours to complete, the process is a challenge of graphic resourcefulness; the live aspect compresses the painting experience into spontaneous reactions to time, space and energy. The result is a document of the night, capturing the mood, sounds and electricity of these music environments.