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Tattooed Portraits - New Paintings by Shawn Barber

Title: SubTitle: Artist: Editor: Introduction: Foreword: Pub: ISBN: Binding: Cover Design: Cover Graphics: Pages: List Price: Release Date:	Tattooed Portraits New Paintings by Shawn Barber Shawn Barber Justin Giarla Grime Justin Giarla 9mm Books 0-9766325-4-3 Perfect, Section Stich Sewn Shawn Barber Printed on Softcover 112, Full Color on Premium Gloss $29.95 March 2006
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Tattooed Portraits is a 112 page full color fine art book showcasing a select group of paintings in Shawn Barber’s portraiture series on well known contemporary painters and tattoo artists. The paintings range from traditional representational portraits to colorful, expressionistic abstractions. Through his refined skills and modern expressionistic techniques Shawn’s paintings provide us with complex emotional responses to the subject being tattooed, tattoo designs, the tattooing artists applying the ink, along with Shawn’s inner vision through unique compositions and personal experience with ink in his skin. Tattooed Portraits contains portraits of well known artists such as Mike Giant, Grime, Mike Davis, Paul Booth, Helen Garber, Marcus Pacheco, Jeremy Fish, Henry Lewis, Owen Smith and Tara McPherson. The editor Justin Giarla, internationally known for The Shooting Gallery, wrote the Foreword while the world renowned tattoo artist Grime wrote the Introduction. “The passionate images doubly displayed by Shawn are more than pictures of people with pictures upon them. Within we find emotion absent from the glassy-eyed queens and incidental princes we are accustomed to. They are more sincere than tradition allows. The view of the dragon on the unknown leg, the bullet, the bio-mechanical landscapes, and the human heart- are some of the intriguing images in his work. They bring to the viewer an intimacy that, at times, is possibly too revealing.” - Grime