>SPECIAL EVENT< SK.com gets together with the rad people of Palmer Projects for an evening of high paced excitment.

Will you be able to collect one of the >20 only< limited edition prints by each of these very cool artists?
Sale starts at 6pm sharp on Thursday 28th August, 2008, 2/238 Palmer St. Darlinghurst.

Each print is something a little different, straight from the sketch book of these artists. Get a little into the minds behind the work you love so much! Humourous, dark, intelligent and very contemporary!

See you on the start line!
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CORNUCOPIA An Installation and New Works by Trent Whitehead

OPENING NIGHT  THURSDAY 28th AUGUST 6.00 till 9.00PM
Show continues 29th August ~ 25th September 2008
‘Cornucopia’, a solo art show by Sydney artist Trent Whitehead features a highly entertaining “broke down vaudeville” installation. The show title refers to the ever-giving ‘horn of plenty’. Based around the symbolic imagery of ‘magical horns’, the exhibition is undeniably generous in humor and beauty. Highly detailed handcrafted painted masks and wood panel paintings depicting horned-beasts locked in human-like battles balance an enviably dynamic body of work. The intensity of the masks and otherworldly characters capture the effervescence of the artist himself by pooling the experiences of his existence to breathe life into inanimate wood… "like a vagabond Giuseppi to a bad-ass Pinocchio".
As narratively intense as they are beautiful, Trent’s exquisitely patterned works explore the effects of extinction in a fantastical world of horned creatures and bearded villains. Trent’s characters seem about to burst with some intense expression of anger, frustration or joie de vivre. The unique symbolism paintings portray scenes of hope, desperation and loss in a deceptively light-hearted way. The overall impression is of a do-or-die mystical journey conveyed through a very human emotional landscape. 
Trent Whitehead’s work has been featured in Jonathan Levine gallery New York and widely through out Australian galleries, including Monster Children Gallery and MTV gallery. 

POST MORTEM: Art Death and Illustration Exhibition
Opening Night Thursday 28th August. Running till 9th September

KINOKUNIYA GALLERY Books Kinokuniya Level 2, The Galleries Victoria 500 George Street ,Sydney

Post Mortem is an investigation into the realms of an artist's pysche, carefully extracted and poured onto canvas. From the feverish portraits of James Jirat Patradoon, to the Art Deco stylings of William Loeng, to the sinister images created by Akina, Post Mortem is evidence of some of the most exciting emerging artists who are carving out their own unique identity both here and abroad. Artists include; Akina, James Jirat Patradoon, William Loeng, Bei Badgirl, Leigh Rigozzi, Nanami Cowdroy and Plump Oyster.
For more info jirat.patradoon@gmail.com

www.retrospectgalleries.com

Exhibition Opening Blog HERE

www.killpixie.net / www.whitewallssf.com
August 9th, 2008 will mark the opening of a new show at White Walls featuring the artwork of Kill Pixie and Cleon Peterson. 

Starting with large-scale throw ups and pieces on almost every street in Sydney, Mark Whalen – the artist better known as Kill Pixie - earned his craft by working while you were awake and continued after you had gone to bed. With themes of futuristic lost cultures and extrasensory communication Mark’s work imploded becoming so detailed and intensified that worlds were opening up inside worlds. From a throw-up executed in seconds his current pieces on box mounted paper in inks, acrylics and watercolour take weeks to complete. The detailed line work is so precise and intricate that it can take hours just to look at it. - Joseph Allen

Cleon Peterson is an LA based graphic artist whose chaotic and violent paintings show clashing figures symbolize a struggle between power and submission in the fluctuating architecture of contemporary society. Peterson’s most recent body of work focuses on multi-panel installations of obscure and anxiety-ridden scenes of anonymous death and brutality. 

The opening reception will be held on Saturday August 9th, 2008 from 7pm-11pm and will run through September 6th, 2008. For any questions or to see a preview of the show please call, email, or visit our website. 

White Walls
835 Larkin Street (between Geary & O’Farrell)
San Francisco, CA 94109
415.931.1500

www.watim.com

'Kids Today' International Art Exhibition

Opening April 4th. MTV galleries. Sydney.

Click HERE for more information on the artist line-up

StupidKrap.com and Semi-Permanent 2008 present an all-star
art event featuring artwork by our favorites from Australia and around the globe. Keep checking for updates!

To receive the exhibition preview please email kidstodaypreview@stupidkrap.com

Jeremy Piert web.mac.com/jeremypiert
Plusminus Produkties www.nieuwenmeer.nl/site/willemv

Joseph  Allen www.monsterchildren.com
Mark Drew www.makingends.com

Hana Shimada www.hanamizushow.com 

We Buy Your Kids www.webuyyourkids.com

Beastman www.esnce.com

Trent Whitehead www.nudesoup.com

Kareena Zerefos www.kareenazerefos.com

Bei Badgirl  www.myspace.com/badgirlxx
Love Ariel www.loveariel.com
Renee  Herd
Ant Keogh www.antkeogh.com

TALL OAKS

Melbourne Street Artist REKA (Everfresh Crew) swoops into town with a new collection of mindblowing paintings and limited edition prints. DONT MISS THIS SHOW!

China Heights, Saturday, March 29, 6-9pm Level 3, 16-28 Foster St., Surry Hills

>REKA Prints Coming Soon to SK.com<

More about the artist....

Reka is an established artist of Melbourne’s burgeoning street art scene that has successfully moved into the realms of illustration and character design as well as becoming a successful exhibitor of his work, both in Melbourne, interstate and overseas.

Commencing in 2002 with forays into the street art genre he transposed self-created characters basing his style around abstracted fantasy. In exploring this style of illustration, he uses symbolism and pop icons to convey messages about mans’ interaction and relationship with nature. The origins of these characters lie in his creation of logos, built upon simple and bold designs much like the core of the “pop art movement” and also influenced by toy and cartoon designs of the current period. Over time the logos and symbols evolved into more structured forms and embraced the variances of the different media he began to work with such as design, murals, graphics and photography.

As a result, the characters have become increasingly detailed through a refined technical approach to the drawing or design he has completed. Inherent in any of the work Reka does is his use of the contrasting humourous nature of much of his designs balanced with an overlay of depth and menace that often are not seen in juxtaposition in other artists work. It is worth noting how he embraces the use of the pseudo human form as a vehicle for expression.

Reka has drawn inspiration from his Melbourne street roots, as well as Japanese culture and draws influence from elements of nature.
Reka has exhibited and curated numerous shows at galleries including Bus Gallery, China Heights, Federation Square, MonsterChildren Gallery, Hogan Gallery and Wooden Shadow Gallery.

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IIt's a Grrl! 12 x 12, 2007 made a splash in the underground art scene ...now here's the tsunami!

Beastman's super-art portal WATIM presents an all-girl show
of underground australian talent. Featuring Stupidkrap.com artists Akina and Kareena Zerefos (coming soon).

aMBUSH gallery 4A James St, Waterloo.

Opening night Feb 8. 6pm -9pm.

Future Shelter and Creepy presents:
"OVERGROWTH"
>For ONE NIGHT ONLY<
Definitely check out this massive westside show.
Bringing together Beastman and Trent Whitehead from
SK Crew plus rad artists from across the nation.

Friday 7 Dec 2007 6PM - 11PM.
Where:
    FORMALLYKNOWNAS STUDIO+GALLERY
    Level 1, 38 Pier Street,
    Perth CBD, WA
    (above Dada records)