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Resident Artists

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Gaia Cosmikali

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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.

Arie Feels

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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)

Carlos is an experienced illustrative artist whose work blends the gothic with cartoon influences. His mystical universe evokes a sense of whimsey and darkness.

Ocean

Ocean is an experienced Bay Area black and grey realism tattooer, bringing his surrealist touch. He has been tattooing for 26 years, and loves to blend various elements into powerful and unique compositions that carry strength and provoke emotion.

ZENITH STAR

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.

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Carolyne

Carolyne is a Chinese-American artist based in the Bay area who focuses on black and grey illustrative tattoos. Originally from the east coast, she takes a lot of artistic inspiration from nature, manga and her east asian heritage.

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Guest Artists

Ashely Foreman

April 9-10

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.

Daniel Matsumoto

May 8-11

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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Yashka Steiner

May 19-31

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.

Suelyn

May 28-31

Suelyn is a blackwork artist visiting from São Paulo. She has a neo-traditional approach, creating fine, striking designs rooted in gothic and mystical symbolism. Her work blends bold lines with intricate detail for a dark, gothic, elegant feel.

Meli DarkSide

June dates TBA

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.

Jake Kobrin

Until end of April

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.

Sarah Twiggs

May 9-10

Sarah specializes in animals, fantasy, florals, spooky themes, and color work, along with blackwork and illustrative styles.

She tattoos all skin types, including over scars and stretch marks, and is the co-founder of Wholehearted Tattoo in Monterey, California.

Natasha Baur

May 28-31

Natasha creates striking graphic blackwork with bold red accents, ranging from minimal abstractions to intricate, organic compositions. Her work feels fluid, expressive, and slightly surreal.

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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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