A Guide to the Best of Southern California : OUT & ABOUT : Art That Gets Under the Skin
If you’re a fan of tattooing and of fine photographic art, the Bryce Bannatyne Gallery in Santa Monica has a show for you. “Forever Yes: Art of the New Tattoo,” a free photo exhibition running through May 3, celebrates tattoo art in all its outrageous glory.
Many of the photographs, including ones by Robert Mapplethorpe and Joel Peter Whitkin, show the extraordinary designs by leading tattoo artists from around the world. Some of the more memorable images: children’s drawings etched on their parents’ skins and a 6-inch-by-6-inch crimson bleeding heart shrouded in thorns and flames emblazoned on a youth’s chest.
There are also photographs chronicling tribal tattooing on male Hawaiian hula dancers, of American abstract tattoos, and of Japanese trendsetters fusing American pop images with Japanese traditions.
Bryce Bannatyne Gallery, 604 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica; (310) 396-9668.
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