Karen O’Leary: Cut-Out Maps

by Maggie York-Worth Charlotte, NC-based artist The maps, haunting in their simplicity and startling visual potency, highlight the transient beauty of each city's skylines through their delicate construction. Says O'Leary, "Imagine all the sounds and smells and feelings of being in a large city…then try to transfer that to paper without using words, only by using a knife or a pen." via

WK Interact: How to Blow Yourself Up

No stranger to controversy, WK Interact keeps upping his ante. For his newest show "How to Blow Yourself Up" at L.A.'s Subliminal Projects, the artist moves away from spray paint into multimedia work. Playing on ideas of the apocalypse (2012 being the most recent buzzed-about theory), he takes them for a turn by presenting impending death as controllable by the believer. The title could be …

Garbage Pin Project Exhibit

The traveling exhibit, Garbage Pin Project, aims to bring environmental awareness and an artistic aspect to the old adage that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Currently on its Los Angeles stop at Touch, the Garbage Pin Project is one of the biggest group shows that can fit on one wall yet. Filling five tiny plastic bags, 90 international artists display their interpretation of …