The shop was covered with that kind of stuff… that was the first tattoo shop I’d ever been in, so I wasn’t aware that there was a more standardized version of a tattoo shop. all kinds of stuff put together, that are really beautiful. For awhile l was immersed in that whole esthetic, whatever it is, which is hard to put your finger on.it was fortunate for me, Tux does a lot of assemblage with found object. Right, he has his own inimitable look…he had spent a lot of time with Thom deVita when he was learning to tattoo so I was indirectly influenced by deVita through Tux, deVita was almost present all the time with the way Tux’s shop looked, and so forth. Tux has a pretty distinctive style thats apart from the mainstream, right? Were you doing other kinds of art before that? I started getting tattooed right after I got out of high school… I got one and just kept going back to get more and more, so I was in the shop all the time time, at Tattoos Tux’s place in Baltimore… and after doing that for a few years I landed an apprenticeship with him to work there for a couple of years, learning the rudiments of it, and eventually wound up out in San Francisco doing some tattooing and it just kind of fell together. Strangely enough, I had forgotten about them, so it was a welcome email.ĭaniel Higgs being interviewed by Don Ed Hardy, Tattoo Revue #25: Last night, someone submitted my scanned pages to Occult Vibrations for inclusion. I scanned the entire interview last year and put it in my flickr page. While Tattoo Time #5 featured some of Daniel’s work, this was a rare sitdown interview that puts you where his head was at the time. Issue #25 had a multipage interview with Daniel Higgs conducted by Ed Hardy. (which ran under the banner of Outlaw Biker’s Tattoo Revue) As the editor, she really turned things around, wooing top artists to provide content. Each passing issue would have less and less quality work, but you’d pick them up, just in case.įor my money, the best of the bunch was Michelle Delio’s run on Tattoo Revue. Content was king when you had a family of magazines to put out every month you’d pretty much feature anything and everything you’d photograph at a convention. On one hand they connected you to a global tattoo community on the other they were usually put out as part of a Biker magazine family and didn’t always reflect the cultural standards of something like Hardy’s TATTOO TIME.Īs tattoo culture evolved, more and more magazines popped up. His work forms part of the permanent collection of the American Visionary Art Museum and is held in private collections around the world.Tattoo magazines were usually a mixed blessing, back in the pre-internet Dark Ages. Recent exhibitions include group showings at LA's Roberts and Tilton Gallery and NYC's Feigen Contemporary and (the now defunct) Alleged Gallery. In a career that spans three decades, he has released dozens of records, several books and his visual art is fiercely collected in independent art circles. Higgs continues to live and work in Baltimore, Maryland. On exhibit, are a large collection of new small to medium sized oils and ink paintings and drawings on board and paper, with several older pieces as well. His brightly coloured paintings and detailed monochromatic drawings reflect the same primalĮnergies and rhythms as his lyrical and musical output. Repetitive, primeval themes woven into distinct visual narratives, Higgs' artwork forces the viewer into a confrontation with larger metaphysical concepts. Higgs' visual art is preoccupied with the symbols and motifs of spiritualism and mysticism.
Renowned for the intensity of his lyrics and live performances, and now a successful solo musician, poet and visionary artist, Higgs continues to produce an astonishing body of work across genres and media. A contemporary and peer of artists Chris Johanson, Cynthia Connolly, and Jim Houser, along with curators Aaron Rose and Rich Jacobs he first came to prominence in the 1980s as the frontman and songwriter for legendary American band Lungfish.
Born in 1964, Daniel Higgs is one of the most influential and widely recognised artistic voices of his generation. About96 Gillespie is pleased to announce a visual arts exhibition by acclaimed Baltimore visionary artist, Daniel Higgs.
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