New Releases

In anticipation of the 15th annual Bay Area Tattoo Convention, set to take place in late October of 2019, TTTISM highlights some of its articles on the convention to date.

In the second installation of our TTT(+) review of the artistic works of Michele Servadio, he tells us about the impetus behind his recent release, Body of Reverbs.

We look at London-based tattooist Michele Servadio’s artistic work in this two-part feature. The first post explores his 2015 project, SIZING GROUNDS.

Grace Neutral owns Femme Fatale studio in east London. Neutral pays gratitude to the inspiring women, femmes, and queer people she continues to be surrounded by. She discusses her book, <i>NEUTRAL</i>, to be published by TTTISM in September 2019.

Ed Hardy: Deeper Than Skin is an exhibition curated by the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California. The exhibition promises to be a monument to the history of tattooing and runs from July 13th to October 6th.

TTTism presents a series of photos by tattooist, artist, and musician, Brian Kennedy (@sewp). The photo series follows Kennedy amidst his extensive travels in Europe and Asia.

We are pleased to release a short video profile and interview with Don Ed Hardy on the occasion of the 2018 Bay Area Tattoo Convention.

In the second and final part of our series on David Schiesser’s recent exhibition, “Spectator Mode,” we speak with the artist and tattooist about surface transformations, representation, and the limits and affordances of the line.

We interview Ed Crooks, creator of the Still Life zine series, and Peter Falkous, the series’ publisher, about the circumstances behind the medium’s creation and the place of print within contemporary tattoo culture.

A press release for the Ladies Ladies Art Show 2018, curated by Elvia Iannaccone Gezlev and Martina Secondo Russo. This piece will be followed by an interview with Gezlev.

We speak with co-curators of Portland’s FISK Gallery, Bijan Berahimi and Michael Spoljaric, about their thoughts on the gallery’s current exhibition, “Spectator Mode,” by artist and tattooist David Schiesser.

Discipline Press founder Tamara Santibañez is interviewed about her new anthology, SEXINESS: Rituals, Revisions, and Reconstructions, published in collaboration with Sang Bleu.