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the gallery
 Raised
on a diet of Walt Disney World, Ray Harryhausen films, Florida tiki tourist
traps, and tattoo imagery, Pooch paints images that seem to exist in a bizarre
Afterlife. His art is a visual cocktail mix of Eastern iconography, Mexican
Day of the Dead imagery, and a shot of tattoo culture.
A self-taught artist, Pooch owes much of his painting skills to more than
ten years of daily tattooing and drawing; but unlike tattooing, painting
allows him the freedom to express his vision without the constraints of the
tattoo clients’ input.
His earlier works are done in oil, influenced by hallucinatory dream states,
containing architectural elements and sinuously carved statue-like figures
in static display. Newer works are in acrylic and reflect his exposure to Disney
World and Florida theme parks, with surreal carnival ride “facades” decorated
with symbolic figures of death from Tibetan rituals to the Mexican Day of the
Dead Fistival.
Pooch’s paintings have been featured in Tattoo Revue, International Tattoo
Art, and Tattoo Savage, and he has exhibited in numerous shows around the country.
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