Chet Zar: Second Skin Group Show July 14th at Copro Gallery

By Chet Zar
I only discovered the tattoo community about 3 years ago when I was invited by tattoo artist Jon Lane to paint live at 2009′s Visionary Tattoo Art Festival. I was impressed from the start. Not only were these artists creating truly cutting edge art work on skin (conceptually, tattooing blows every other artistic statement out of the water, in my opinion), they were also painting as good as or better than a lot of well known contemporary painters I’ve seen. I was truly blown away at the variety of styles, techniques and ideas and wondered why I wasn’t seeing a lot of this stuff at the galleries I was showing at and going to, especially when a lot of the artists were expressing interest in showing at these galleries… (more…)

June 29, 2012 | Categories: art, collectible, entertainment, tattooers for japan | Tags: Adrian Dominic, Alan Padilla, Alex Garcia, art show, big gus, Black Mass, carlos torres, Chet Zar, Chris Dingwell, Christian Perez, Chuy Ortega, Copro Gallery, Cory Norris, Damon Conklin, Dan Plumley, gunnar gaylord, Guy Aitchison, Jaime Lee Parker, Jeff Johnson, Jesse Smith, Joey Remmers, Jon Clue, Joshua Carlton, Juan Salgado, kim saigh, Kirk Alley, Michele Wortman, mike devries, Nick Baxter, Nikko Hurtado, Paolo Acuna, paul booth, Pepper, Pooch, Rob McClurg, second skin, shawn barber, Teresa Sharpe, Tim Plumley | 4 Comments »