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The Ed Hardy booth will feature an installation of the Tat Cat Shack that’s been making the rounds of the art gallery circuit.

Ed will be there to hang out and say ‘hi’ and Doug will be there to explain the history of the tattoo booth and the artwork.

Ed and the crew are putting the final touches on a “modern” remodel of the original the “Tattoo Hut” art installation that was a highlight of Hardy’s first show at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica,1997.

Once again, the claustrophobic structure evokes the spooky tiny tattoo parlors of the 1950s – but this time the entire design theme is of the iconic mid-20th century tattoo, the black panther. The Tat Cat Shack will transport you back into a time you never knew existed, before tattoos were part of the trendy mainstream.

We have consulted many people about this and there is no logical answer. I can only chalk it up to “the curse of Sailor Jerry”— a variety of negative and frustrating events relating to his life and legacy that seem to carry on his relentless practical joking and trouble-making while alive.

Hardy Marks is very happy about the enthusiastic response to this book and all the previous books on Jerry’s work. As this first edition is sold out, we will reprint soon, with corrected scans. The original edition, containing the errata, will be a collector’s item.

We will continue to print books of classic flash, including collections by people who Jerry looked up to and with whom he communicated—including Brooklyn Joe Lieber, Ben Corday, Owen Jensen, and others. Hardy Marks was the first to bring accurate tattoo history to the public since 1982 and will continue to do so.

-Ed Hardy, April 2010

Recently, we have received emails with concerns that the new Sailor Jerry Tattoo Flash book contains images within that are altered. At first I was baffled, but upon investigation, I have found that there are numerous images within the book that had in fact been changed using an image manipulation program.

All of the sheets in the Sailor Jerry Tattoo Flash books are from photographic slides, and as of this point, we believe that the images were altered at the printer. We were sent a color proof before the final approval was given to print, but we did not catch the alterations, as the proof is a lower resolution than the final product; the alterations were not as jarring and we simply missed them.

At this point we are going through our options and will let you all know what we will do to rectify this as soon as we can.

We apologize for this, and thank you for your patience and understanding.

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Art Shack is a group exhibition in which artists such as Mark Ryden, Don Ed Hardy, Shag, and Mike Shine create experimental shack environments offering a physical immersion between our experiences of the real world and that of the artists.

Art Shack is guest curated by Greg Escalante and will be open at Laguna Museum of Art from June 13 – October 3, 2010

Shark’s Ink is one of only a handful of publishers where the Director and Master printer is the same person. On the spot decisions are made by Master printer/Director Bud Shark and the artists during every aspect of the collaborative printmaking process- from how a plate can be made to the appropriate paper to be used for a particular image.

Techniques used in the studio have included lithography; monotype- using watercolor, oil pastels and other materials; metal leaf, chine collé, embossing and collage, as well as innumerable innovations for cutting and printing woodblocks and other relief prints; and the engineering and construction of three-dimensional lithographs.

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We’ve scanned a few for your perusal and enjoyment.
Art Port Magazine
Modin Magazine
Welt Online

You can pre-order signed books online from the Beat Museum.

A special exhibition of original works by Ed Hardy will run from Dec. 13, 2009 through Jan. 20, 2010.


Date: December 13, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: The Beat Museum
Address: 540 Broadway
City: SF, CA 94133
Contact: 1-800-KER-OUAC
www.thebeatmuseum.org
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