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WK Interact Opens Suicide Bombing Display in LA

Will Sherman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:30:53 +0000

WK Interact offers his sage advice for doomsday prophesiers: kill yourself. “If you believe the world will end in 2012 and you can’t do anything about it, maybe it’s better to blow yourself up when you feel like it.” More than likely, the New York-based street artist is only being so fatalist for the sake of his new show, an exhibition including skateboards equipped with pipe bombs and other ways to start a scene. The aptly titled “How to Blow Yourself Up” is on view through December 5th at Los Angeles’ Subliminal Projects.

“How to Blow Yourself Up,” November 7 – December 5, Subliminal Projects, 1331 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles

WK Interact To Open Sponge Painting Show

Will Sherman — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:23:42 +0000

Working in a strict color palette of black and white, street artist WK Interact paints and installs large murals and wheat paste portraits characterized by their movement and gritty texture that graffiti writers love to paint over. On June 27th, the New York based French artist opens “Motion Portrait,” an exhibition of his distorted street installations alongside looser six-foot square face paintings he made with a sponge and big brush. The show opens from 7 to 9 PM in Jonathan LeVine Gallery and is on view through July 25th at 529 West 20th Street, 9th floor.

CLAW Seconds Art Critic’s Take On WK Interact

ANIMAL — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:49:17 +0000

This hand written criticism of street artist WK Interact was scrawled right onto one of his public pieces. Not one to hold her tongue, CLAW decided to chime in and agree. As did the flickr user who posted it and a commenter. Now’s your chance. At least no one bombed it like they did his soldiers.
|Photo: Adam Lawrence|

Street Artist Blames Graffiti Writers for War In Iraq

ANIMAL — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:43:13 +0000

Street artisan WK Interact has been executing his ‘Bring Me Back‘ anti-war campaign with his trademark black and white wheat pastings down and around the Lower East Side. Evidently graffiti writers bombed some of the soldiers on Rivington Street, and in this new age of the internet, the artist responded by buffing over the entire wall and releasing a statement:

“Finally a piece appeared on the street that made viewers remember the fact that fellow human beings are being massacred by the thousands. I have tried to reach out for help on behalf of the men in arms with my recent “Bring Me Back” installations around Manhattan. It’s tragically unfortunate for them that other artists would rather self-promote than convey this important message.”

While we support any campaign that involves bringing the troops back he completely loses us at the end with this zinger:

“This is a classic example of why this war goes on.”

So stop your bombing already graffiti writers, you’re just prolonging this quagmire.
NYC WK INTERACT’S “BRING ME BACK” MURAL GETS BOMBED |Supertouch|