Los Angeles - based fine artist and tattooist Shawn Barber is set to open a new body of work, Memoir:
The Tattooed Portraits Series, at Joshua Liner Gallery in NYC on Thursday, June 28.
The Wrestlers on display here are a continuation of a
series Blake has returned to many times since the 1960s, while the
Tattooed People are a new take on a recurring theme which he explored in earlier
portraits of rock stars, pin - up girls, and circus acts.
Featuring his
Tattooed Portraits, this second showing (see 2010) with the New York gallery draws on his day job as a successful
tattoo artist for inspiration on a
series of rich oil paintings including a huge 72 ″ x 108 ″ piece of Japanese tattooist Shige.
He was also a lover of, landscape painting, producing a
series of atmospheric mountain and coastal scenes, together with several examples of
portrait art, including his amusing Self - Portrait (1939, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art), which shows the aged, shy artist as a young, bleached - blond, gay sailor - type with tattoos and a stud
portrait art, including his amusing Self -
Portrait (1939, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art), which shows the aged, shy artist as a young, bleached - blond, gay sailor - type with tattoos and a stud
Portrait (1939, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art), which shows the aged, shy artist as a young, bleached - blond, gay sailor - type with
tattoos and a stud earring.