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Review Celebrated Skin: Tattoo Art and Artists from Austin, Texas

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Dec. 7, 2006 By Christina Hiett
"Review by Needled.com"

Celebrated Skin
www.needled.com
November 20, 2006

I've been bad, I confess. An interesting and comprehensive exhibit celebrating the art of tattoo, past and present, has been on view in Austin, Texas for almost three weeks now and I've just been putzing around with Needled tees, contests, and freak links. My apologies. But it's not too late to check it out. Celebrated Skin will run until November 29th at the Butridge Gallery at the Dougherty Arts Center.

Christina Hiett, the show's young curator and trained art historian, told Austin 360, "The story of tattoo art doesn't begin or end with the tattoo shop...I wanted to approach the genre... More > in a broader art historical context."

Nevertheless, the work of today's Texan tattoo stars are ever-present: The incredible Chris Trevino offers his paintings to the show, an eight-hour tattoo session is turned into a six-minute stop-motion Super 8 film on view by Gabel Karsten, and other media including photos, drawings, and sculptures are melded together to show the influence of tattooing on fine art and culture. < Less

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Copyright Standard Copyright License
Publisher Christina Hiett
Published November 6, 2006
Language English
Pages 52
 
Binding Saddle-stitch Paperback
Interior Ink Full color
Dimensions (inches) 8.5 wide × 11.0 tall

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