How To Blow Yourself Up Opening Reception

Dynamites, bombs, spray-can-detonators, skateboards modified to kill, a suped-up-turbo-get-away-bike all-blacked-out, sounds more like the average teen miscreant’s dream arsenal rather than an art exhibit.

With so much hoopla about the end of the world on 2012 and the overcoming sense powerlessness, WK Interact symbolicly composes his thoughts to portray the human psyche and gives the viewers a chance to reagain any loss sense of self-empowerment  through devices of self-destruction in his new exhibit “How to Blow Yourself Up.” Why wait for the world to end when you can end it on your own terms?

WK Interact is a London based artist known for his gigantic black-and-white city paintings.  Being a big fan, I was glad for the opportunity to see his new work in person.  The pieces are powerful figurative symbols of age, authority, and social positioning, with primary colors WK describes as dynamite red and authority blue.  “That’s bad ass.”

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A new meaning to the term graffiti bombing.

A new meaning to the term graffiti bombing.

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The gallery posted our criminal record next to Shepard Fairey's. "He's kind of like a big deal."

The gallery posted our criminal record next to Shepard Fairey's. "He's kind of like a big deal."

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