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Resident Artists

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Gaia Cosmikali

Resident Artist

Gaia is an ornamental artist with twelve years of experience, blending fine-line, dotwork, geometric, and sigil magick into powerful compositions, imbued with meaning. She draws from many influences, and mainly does custom work.

Eduar Talavera

Resident Artist

Eduar is originally from Nicaragua. He brings a love of geometric design and smooth dot work shading to his pieces. From mandalas to clean lines and hard angles, he's got what you need, and always with a smile!
Eduar is also talented in rendering realism work.

ZENITH STAR

Resident Budding Artist

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Zenith creates illustrative black and grey tattoos inspired by nature, fantasy, and the mystical. His work blends stars, flora, and witchy motifs to help people feel more at home in their bodies.

Ocean

Resident Artist

Ocean is an experienced Bay Area black and grey realism tattooer, bringing his surrealist touch. He has been tattooing for over two decades, and loves to blend various elements into powerful and unique compositions that carry strength and provoke emotion.

Arie Feels

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Resident Artist

Arie is our fine-line master. She specializes in florals, ornamental, dainty black and grey work. She brings her sensitivity and attention to detail to her work, and delivers incredible tattoos with a fine touch.

Carlos(SpitBlosssoms)

Resident Budding Artist

Our Resident apprentice, his work blends the gothic with cartoon influences. His mystical universe evokes a sense of whimsey and darkness; he is currently taking appointments at apprentice rates!

Guest Artists

Jake Kobrin

February 7-30

Jake is a multimedia visionary artist specializing in sacred geometry, occult symbolism, and transformative ritual work. His practice bridges ancient esoteric traditions with contemporary visual language, creating tattoos as talismanic objects and embodied ceremonies.

Daniel Matsumoto

March 11 - 15

Daniel is a Japanese-Brazilian artist with an incredible range of styles, from abstract and geometric to Japanese traditional to script to realism.

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Ashely Foreman

April 8 -11

Ashely specializes in nature-inspired, illustrative, and ornamental blackwork. Ashely offers a collaborative tattoo experience, utilizing fine line, geometry, florals, and high contrast blackwork to create tattoos that honor personal storytelling.

Yashka Steiner

February 17 - March 2

Yashka is a Swiss artist and friend of Old Crow who visits for several weeks, multiple times per year.
His work explores the dialogue between geometry, symbolism, and organic forms. He draws from geometric language, Japanese visual culture, and algorithmic processes, and also works with music and digital animation.

Meli DarkSide

March 27 - 31

Meli holds a master in fine arts with over 10 years of experience tattooing internationally.
Her work focuses on large-scale blackwork projects such as bodysuits, ornamental and tribal compositions, with a strong emphasis on symbols, flow, and geometry.

Marcelo Zissu

June 1 - 12

Marcelo is a multimedia artist whose background is in drawing and sculpture. His greatest inspiration is nature and its cycles, beings and their complexities. He seeks to find depth and beauty in themes that permeate our daily lives and our secret imagination

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