BOOTLEG

Is the Art World (which is an industry like any other) impenetrable to piracy? What if the Art world were to function as an “urban industry” ? urban being a marketable buzzword racially and in dealing with class. Would this bridge the gap of socioeconomic modes and methods of communication that so often are only dialogues aimed at targeting the privileged few?

In the spirit of a hustler, in the spirit of hustling i’m taking these works off the pedestal and i’m bringing them to the street to sell whether it’s legal or not.

THE INTIMACY OF BEING

Michael David Quattlebaum jr & Adam Schleimer
No Fear

@ THE JANE 03/28/11

With this weeks host:

¸.•♥•.㋡.•衙• Patrik ϟandberg •衙•.㋡.•♥•.¸

THE NIGHT STARTS @ 9:00PM

This week’s short is presented by video artist Aïda Ruilova

AFTER THE FILMS groove to the tunes of:

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& RESIDENT DJ’S HALEY WOLLENS & JULIA BURLINGHAM

White Room

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These are just some of Patrick Griffin’s photos on MUDDGUTS

COCO YOUNG

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Scott Campell, Studio view, 2011

SCOTT CAMPBELL
Noblesse Oblige
March 19 – April 22, 2011
937 N. La Cienega / Los Angeles / CA / 90069

OHWOW inaugurates its Los Angeles gallery with a solo exhibition of recent work by New York based artist Scott Campbell. In Campbell’s West Coast debut, Noblesse Oblige, he uses copper, currency, graphite, ink, and neon, to transform tattoo subculture iconography into delicate and tempered work.

Campbell expands his use of cut currency, sourcing uncut sheets of dollars directly from the United States Mint, to create large, intricate work with a sunken relief effect. One piece uses $11,ooo worth of currency sheets to create an over two-foot cube, into which a three dimensional skull is carved-out. These works employ the familiar blue-collar vernacular of tattoo flash-boards – a skull smoking a cigarette, a skeleton’s hand in a provocative gesture, a single eye emitting a penetrating ray – and highlight the irony that exists within that imagery.

Noblesse Oblige also includes a suite of prints. Using a tattoo gun, Campbell has engraved a collection of copper plates to make a group of etchings. By using the same plates to compose the separate prints, the artist plays with visual semantics – how meaning changes through arrangement. A series of drawings, executed onto the interior of ostrich eggshells, also flirt with interpretation. Morbid images, rendered in graphite onto these fragile surfaces that represent birth and transformation, point out the delicacy of opposition.

The title Noblesse Oblige implies that whoever claims to be noble must conduct their life accordingly, and in a manner that conforms to one’s position. In Campbell’s case, his “nobility” is his tattoo-artist origin, and it is to that position and reputation his compliance is fashioned. In exhibiting a chronicle of working class imagery, customarily inked onto skin, Campbell seeks to construct a new context for the genre – an alternative narrative for consideration.

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 – 6 PM

Ghetto Gothic 3/9/11

Hosted by the cast of HOOPER PLACE tv

MUSIC BY :
NGUZUNGUZU (Los Angeles)
TOTAL FREEDOM
VENUS ICEBERG
$HAYNE (Hood By Air)
PHYSICAL THERAPY
“JUS” SEBASTIAN (Bklyn Boihood)

Armen Danilian

Ourboro

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▇◄MONDAY NIGHT MOVES:
a free film-screening-series-come-dance-party
@ THE JANE 03/07/11

This week’s host : ☜♥☞ Eleonore Hendricks ☜♥☞

Special screening of Richard Kern‘s 1985 SHORT:
You Killed Me First

followed by Eleonore’s feature presentation pick:
Dennis Hopper’s 1980 film…
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*´¨) AFTER THE FILMS groove to the tunes of:
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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ RESIDENT DJ’S HALEY WOLLENS & JULIA BURLINGHAM SPECIAL DJ SET BY •.••HARRY MCNALLY••.•

THE NIGHT STARTS @ 9:00PM SHARP