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Don Ed Hardy’s weirdly beautiful pictorial narratives are drawn from a rich heritage of graphic traditions. Illustrated in this catalogue are a stunning array of paintings, drawings, and watercolors that mine sources as diverse as classical Japanese tattooing, eccentric Chinese...
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California native Don Ed Hardy was determined to be a tattoo artist at the age of ten and has been tattooing professionally since 1967. Fusing Asian aesthetics, traditional Japanese art, Western art history, and the imagery of surf culture, hot-rod...
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California native Don Ed Hardy was determined to be a tattoo artist at the age of ten and has been tattooing professionally since 1967. Fusing Asian aesthetics, traditional Japanese art, Western art history, and the imagery of surf culture, hot-rod...
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2000 is a Year of the Dragon in the Asian zodiac. California artist Don Ed Hardy has created a 4’ x 500’ scroll painting of 2,000 dragons to commemorate this auspicious dawning of a new millennium. This is an expanded...
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Exhibition poster from “Paintings to Palpate Your Inner Eye, 2003”. These dedicated painters, Bob Roberts and Don Ed Hardy, are two of the godfathers of modern tattooing.
Edition of 250Signed and numbered by both artists28×22 inches2003
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Considered one of the founders of modern tattooing, Hardy developed the artistic and expressionistic potential of the medium with emphasis on its Asian heritage. In 1973 he lived in Japan, studying with a traditional tattoo master—the first non-Asian to gain...
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Like a cultural anthropologist, photographer and writer Michael McCabe’s explores the outrageous style of the Kustom Kulture movement in Japan (the adaptation and assimilation of a California-style hot-rod culture)—documenting the dynamic relationship between tradition and change. McCabe explains: “During the...
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La Luz de Jesus Gallery was formed in 1986 as a response to the “aristocracy” of the L.A. art scene, and it has since become the core of a unique and important scene of its own in Los Angeles, exhibiting...
