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gallery show
Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World
Ashland welcomes the Southern California native
whose tattoo-based art is literally worn by people
around the world. Ed Hardy revived a childhood
passion and underwent a tattoo apprenticeship
while receiving a B.F.A. degree in printmaking
at the San Francisco Art Institute. Tattooing
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professionally, he developed the fine art
aller
potential of the medium with emphasis on its
Asian heritage. In 1973 he lived in Japan, studying
with a traditional tattoo master as the first non-Asian to gain
access to that world and went on to popularize the Japanese
y
style of tattooing in America. In 1986 he moved to Honolulu
sho
and resumed painting, drawing, and printmaking.
Although retired from body painting, Hardy continues to
work with younger artists to evolve and carry on his unique
w
art. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals, books, and
films internationally. Since licensing over a thousand of his images in
2005 to Los Angeles designer Christian Audigier, his classic tattoo art is
The Man
seen globally on millions of products. He now focuses his work on
painting, printmaking, and ceramics.
“My life has always been in
pictures. I’ve been drawing
obsessively since the age of
The Film
three and have always been 15
interested in people’s stories
Saturday, April 10, 3p; Sunday, April 11, 9:30a and the stories that pictures
The new documentary is the fourth to be featured at the AIFF by director
tell. Eventually, I came to
Emiko Omori. Her film chronicles the life and art of Ed
value subtler kinds of
Hardy who will join Omori on stage following
narrative, and realized that
the screenings to field audience questions.
a lot of the important stuff
See page 23 for more information.
wasn’t necessarily logical or
linear, but is the
communication of
The Art
something unique, even in
its abstract or formal
Reception:
elements. This transmission
Saturday, April 10, 6–8p
of specific experience and
sensation gives it power.
Bohemia Gallery,
Sometimes the content of
552 A Street
the picture is a mystery
even to the person who
Show begins with First Friday
opening 4/2 and runs through April
made it, and that’s where it
gets good and makes
Ed Hardy’s highly regarded creating things worthwhile.”
Buddhist and Shinto inspired
—Ed Hardy
designs have helped bridge the
gap between Asian and Western
Art. Since retiring from tattooing, he
has concentrated on fine art, including
printmaking, drawing, and painting.
Hardy will be at the April 10 reception.
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