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SCOTT CAMPBELL GALLERY OPENING MARCH 19, 2011
If you Are in LA on March 19th there is an opening reception at OHWOW gallery for ny’s fav local tattoo artist Scott Campbell. You all know him but its alway nice to get out and see the work in a proper setting. Not to mention it’s LA, so anything going on that doesn’t include Raw Vegan food and yoga talk is a good thing!
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 $5,000 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.
