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Memoir: The Tattooed Portraits Series

by Shawn Barber

Large hardcover book featuring 110 full color paintings and 30 color photos.

Starting with a handful of paintings, The Tattooed Portraits Series quickly developed into an obsession and a life-changing event for artist Shawn Barber. The series documents contemporary tattoo culture and history through fine art paintings ranging from traditional portraits to colorful, expressionistic abstractions. This volume contains photographs, paintings and essays chronicling a six-year living journal.

It includes paintings of Don Ed Hardy, Bob Roberts, Grime, Paul Booth, Marcus Pacheco, Kim Saigh, Jack Rudy, Thomas Woodruff, Aaron Cain, Mike Giant, Adrian Lee, Margaret Cho, and many more. Foreword by Margaret Cho. Introductions by Marisa Kakoulas, C.W. Eldridge, and Kim Saigh.

Hardcover. 256 pages. Measures 10" X 12"

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