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Monday, June 29th, 2009

Opening Night NYC w/ WK + Invader

WK Interact and Space Invader proved their continual popularity as signature-hungry fans fought through the packed opening night crowd for joint solo shows with Jonathan LeVine this past Saturday.

WK’s Motion Portrait presents recent large acrylic on canvas paintings, as well as his well known mixed media and wheat-pasted doors. While several of these works were presented at the Aqua Art Fair during Art Basel Miami last December, the newer motion portrait series does represent a welcome departure for the artists, in both subject and form.

The focus of Invader’s Top 10 is the artists signature Rubik’s Cube mash-ups, this time reworking 10 classic album covers including the Beatles, Velvet Underground, Sex Pistols, Clash and yes, even Iron Maiden. We were most intrigued by Invader’s use of digital technology, in which the artist created a black and white tile mosaic that can be read by smartphone cameras, in turn triggering a time-lapsed Quicktime video of Invader constructing one of his pieces. Magic? – not really. The piece utilizes QR coding (think barcode) that points to a specific URL.

Shows run till July 25. Read on for our extensive photo recap.

WK Interact – Motion Poprtrait / Space Invader – Top 10
June 27 – July 25
Jonathan LeVine
529 W. 20th Street
NY, NY 10011