Gallery
The End is Near, the sister to Hand of Glory Tattoo, has developed a branch of its own by adding a gallery space. Best known for it’s piercing and tattooing, TEIN and HOG have been producing art for over 10 years. It’s this love for the arts that has us displaying both emerging and established artist. So, come on by and check out our current show! We promise the only permanent mark will be mental.
Current Show
Bryn Perrot: ”My mind does not wander when I carve; I make for purpose, not from artistic representation. I have focus when I work, which is a relief from my otherwise scattered thoughts. Carving feels like real work: something is being physically accomplished. Each cut made gets me closer to the next image within the larger scene. I simply like making a good image, a strong image. I started getting tattooed seven years ago and started working in a tattoo shop fours years ago. I have since become increasingly interested in the aesthetic and history of tattoo images because of the simplicity and directness those images convey to even the briefest of glances. Which is why I reference heavily from tattoo history; I’m trying to present these images in an equally strong but new context. Essentially I want to pay homage to those references and influences, to the history of an industry built on real work. That, and to always revamp these icons without tiring them out.“
Past Shows
Anna Sea was born in Chicago to a mid-western father of German descent and an Austrian mother, and grew up on the East Coast. She has lived and worked predominantly in Connecticut, Austria, Boston, and New York City, and has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America. She presently lives with the tattooer and musician Craig Rodriguez, and their son and daughter, on an old farmstead in the Catskills, and in Brooklyn, New York. In Brooklyn, they own and operate Hand of Glory Tattoo Studio and The End Is Near.
Anna has been drawing and painting her whole life, since an early age illustrating the layers of identity and human experience through the lens of her own life. She has justifiably been uncomfortable with the term “artist” or “painter” applied to her as a defining designation; after all, most people are much more than simple labels suggest. She’s a self-taught baker, stained glass craftsman, can flawlessly skim coat a wall, can sew and embroider, restores furniture, co-founded three businesses, is in the process of creating an art, craft, and coffee studio in the Catskills in a building she gut-renovated, is the in-house sign painter for Hand of Glory Tattoo and The End Is Near, writes poetry and short stories, can speak German, travels the world, shoots thousands of photographs and a Colt .45, chops wood like a man, is a hack cabinet maker, developed and operates a mini-hotel in Brooklyn, makes shrinky dink jewelry, cuts hair, raises two children, tends a garden, cares for 30 or so egg-laying chickens and other animals that pass through her life destined to be food on the table, and administers a website called Freer Hollow Family Lab. And as it happens, she is also an artist and painter, making astonishingly detailed and thoughtful paintings.
Joe Coleman: “Grace, delicacy, passion, and cruel self-obsession explodes and devours itself on the jewel-like surface of Anna Sea’s beautiful autobiographical songs in paint.”
Norbert Kox: “Anna Sea is one of my favorite artists. With her exquisite technique, she stands among the great masters of our time.”
To see more of her art, visit freerhollowfamilylab.com.
A selection of galleries and museums where Anna’s paintings have been shown: La Luz de Jesus (Los Angeles), Ann Nathan Gallery (Chicago), American Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore), Lucky 13 Saloon (New York), Art Gotham (New York), Front Room Gallery (New York), Future Prospects Art Space (Philippines), Trampoline House (New York), Fuse Gallery (New York), Williamsburg Art and Historical Center (New York), Cambridge Art Association (Cambridge, MA), Pleiades Gallery (New York), Attleboro Museum (Attleboro, MA), Limner Gallery (New York), The End Is Near (New York). Her work has been printed in publications such as Direct Art, Juxtapoz, and Maxim.
Tony Fitzpatrick is an artist, poet, and actor whose artwork can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
His recent exhibitions include solo shows in New York City’s P.S.1 – MoMA and Pierogi Gallery in 2007 and in the Sidney Yates Gallery of the Chicago Cultural Center in 2008. In the same year his work was also shown at the First Biennial in New Orleans at Prospect One. In 2009 he has had one-person exhibitions in New York City at Dieu Donne, in New Orleans at Ammo Gallery, in Illinois at the Rockford College Museum, in Austin at Slugfest Gallery, and in Los Angeles at Billy Shire Fine Arts. In January of 2010 he will be exhibiting new work at Pierogi Gallery in New York City.
His work has also appeared on album covers including The Neville Brothers’ Yellow Moon and Steve Earle’s El Corazon and The Revolution Starts Now.
Tony has made a living as a radio personality, construction worker, and as a film, stage and television actor. He has appeared in 15 major motion pictures including The Fugitive, Married to the Mob, Mad Dog and Glory, and Philadephia. Recently he appeared in The Promotion directed by Steven Conrad. In 1991, Tony earned the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in Prop Theater’s production of Mass Murder. In the summer of 2003, Tony starred in Lookingglass Theatre’s inaugural production of Race, an adaptation of a Studs Terkel novel directed by David Schwimmer.
Tony has published seven books including three collections of art and poetry: The Hard Angels (1988), Dirty Boulevard (1998) and Bum Town (2001); a collection of etchings entitled Tony Fitzpatrick: Max and Gaby’s Alphabet (2001) and three collections of drawing-collages entitled, The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Volume 1 (2005), The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Volume 2, The Dream City (2006), and The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, City of Monsters, City of Ghosts (2008).
