Patrick O’Dell and the artists of New York Adorned Exhibition
at WHITE BOX
in the Villages area
This event has ended - (2008-07-24 - 2008-07-29)
Etching a tattoo into human skin does not come off as seamlessly as drawing on a blank canvas. One is known as an underground culture, while the other is seen as art.
When the canvas itself becomes an image of a human body, tattooing becomes art: Tattoo artists brought together by New York Adorned’s Lori Leven paired with street photographer Patrick O’Dell Thursday, July 24, 2008 for “Uncharted Waters,” part of the White Box’s Six Feet Under Summer Festival. Twelve artists each drew one-of-a-kind images during the gallery’s opening on identical O’Dell prints of a standing nude woman. As the artists covered the image with tattoo-inspired art, the crowd, sipping beer or medicine-sized cups of wine, watched over the artists’ shoulders.
The resulting portraits made the attendees feel like they were watching a living woman having her own skin engraved. The artists drew before a capacity crowd in the White Box, with more onlookers waiting outside and peering down through a glass window to get a peek at the event. The live art event was billed as a metaphor for change in the world; the transformation from nude to covered illustrating the power someone has over his or her own destiny. But the show was much just as effective at changing the popular perception of tattoo culture. The drawings become the focal point of the art, as the woman’s image faded into the background. The tattoo art extended outside of the borders of the human body onto the blue background, allowing canvas and human to blend into one collaborative piece of art.
Artists on view include:
Bryan Randolph, Daniel Santoro, Virginia Elwood, Katja Ramirez, Dana Helmuth, Chris O’Donnell, Horizakura, Stephanie Tamez, Thomas Hooper, and photography by Patrick O’Dell.
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