Culver City, California.- LeBasse Projects is pleased to present “Preview 2012”, on view at the gallery from January 7th through February 4th 2012. This group show will highlight some of the artists that will exhibit in 2012. Participating artists include Herakut , Mike Stilkey , Joshua Petker , Seonna Hong , Jim Houser , Tobias Keene , Katrin Fridriks , Nate Frizzell , Yoskay Yamamoto , Andrew Hem , Matt Haber and Melissa Haslam . Herakut is a symbiosis of the aliases Hera and Akut, two graffiti artists from Frankfurt and Erfurt, Germany. Their collaboration started when they first met in 2004. Both were invited to paint at the Urban Art Festival Sevilla in Spain and before that time had only seen each other’s work in graffiti magazines. To everyone and themselves it was clear that despite the fact they both focused on character painting their styles had nothing in common whatsoever. And that has not changed a bit.