{"id":2844,"date":"2011-03-21T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T07:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/03\/ohwow\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T08:28:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:28:37","slug":"ohwow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/21\/ohwow\/","title":{"rendered":"OHWOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The NY Times Asked & Answered<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Asked & Answered | OHWOW<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0STEFFIE NELSON<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nphoto by Curtis Buchanan – From left: Al Moran and Aaron Bondaroff.<\/em><\/p>\n

Downtown is a state of mind for the art impresarios Aaron Bondaroff and Al Moran, whether they\u2019re selling Statue of Liberty figurines by Kembra Pfahler at a pop-up shop in Athens, Greece, or recreating the Ludlow Street watering hole Max Fish at a bar in Miami (bar staff included). After descending upon Los Angeles last year with a one-night-only Halloween Neckface show that drew 5,000 people, this weekend the two introduced the new L.A. home of their\u00a0OHWOW<\/a>\u00a0gallery. Opening Saturday in a 4,000-square-foot, ivy-covered former Laundromat on La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood, OHWOW presented \u201cNoblesse Oblige,\u201d the first L.A. exhibition from\u00a0Scott Campbell<\/a>, who is as well known for the work he\u2019s inked into the flesh of Marc Jacobs, Terry Richardson and others as he is for the intricate 3-D pieces he cuts into sheets of United States currency. \u201cNoblesse Oblige\u201d \u2014 an ironic battle cry for Campbell\u2019s backwoods Louisiana kin and a phrase he has tattooed on his neck \u2014 also finds the artist working with neon, etching onto 24-karat gold plates, and drawing on the insides of ostrich eggs. We caught up with Bondaroff and Moran in the Rafael de Cardenas-designed space to discuss the bigger picture.<\/p>\n

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