HOOPER: INFINITUM: LIMITED PRINTS

We are pleased to announce that Thomas Hooper's set of limited hand embellished prints are available for acquisition on our web store.

Three separate prints make up the set. Each 40" x 16" & printed as a signed & numbered edition of twenty three.

The prints are hand silk screened with a custom mixed powered graphite & acrylic medium for textural substance.

Additionally, Thomas strove to disturb & affect the regimented order of the patterns over the bodies by hand finishing each print using a very abstract mono printing technique.

Charcoal, metal luster pigment, acrylic medium, acrylic varnish, ink & gouache were employed as the hand finishing materials.

His goal being to evoke a disorder & ascension towards a higher state through chaos & decay.

No two are the same. 

Each one conveys its own truth.

HOOPER: INFINITUM: ALL OVER GARMENT

In honor of Thomas Hooper's Infinitum exhibition we produced this front & back all over printed shirt. 

The image, reproduced from one of Thomas's works on paper, is bold while not overpowering & effectively represents the dynamic scale of Thomas's work whether on paper or skin.

Please click here if you are interested in acquiring.

HOOPER: INFINITIUM

It is with great pleasure that we announce ATAK Gallery will host a solo exhibition of new works by Thomas Hooper.

Born in Hastings East Sussex, Thomas Hooper studied Drawing at The London Institute of Art & Design, subsequently moving from London to New York City to pursue his goals in Tattooing and Art, now residing in Austin, TX.  

As a Painter, Illustrator, and Tattooist Thomas aims to mix orthodox and unorthodox drawing & painting techniques, organic textures, computer-enhanced patterns, accidental stains, & geometrical entities to further intertwine the path of his everyday practice on skin into the realm of fine art & beyond.

Cascading mandalas disintegrate into ornate abstract textures.  Sacred symbols guide the viewer deeper into the universal core.  Elements of wabi-sabi merge with sacred symbolism, occult, & truth.  Thomas's pictorial work, although directly complementary to the skin-based work, travels far from the world of tattooing to explore a very medium-orientated abstraction.

INFINITUM
Work On Paper By Thomas Hooper

Aug 9 – Sep 13, 2014

Opening reception Aug 9, 7pm 'till late 

ATAKSF

1038 Larkin St

San Francisco

94109 Earth

FOR MORE INFORMATION/MEDIA/SALES:

Takashi Makino / softknife09@gmail.com / 415.942.6250

 www.analogtattoo.com

BLOODWORK: HOOPER

Hooper... the blackening beauty of his markings ensorcelled them all.