INVISIBLE NYC is an exclusive, appointment only tattoo studio. Our tattooists are some of the most highly sought after, respected tattooers in the world.
Recent Exhibitions
- January 29, 2009
- Amy Finkbeiner — Leave Me, Desire
- November 20, 2008
- Curated by Logan Hicks — Eye to Eye
- October 16, 2008
- Steve Smith — You Are Here (The Town)
- September 11, 2008
- AKO/Akayo — The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
- August 07, 2008
- S.C.1 vs. YUCK — 50 / 50
- July 03, 2008
- Terence Hannum — Threnody
- May 29, 2008
- Duane Bruton and Leif Parsons — Once In Awhile
- March 20, 2008
- Colin Stinson — Game of Death
- February 07, 2008
- Dosa Kim — High Contrast
- November 29, 2007
- Joshua Abram Howard & Carlyle Micklus — Augmentable
- October 20, 2007
- Phil Holt — Immolation
- September 13, 2007
- NORM, Amandalynn, PUSH — Three’s a Crowd
- July 06, 2007
- Denise DeSpirito & Diana McClure — Constructed Consciousness / Spiritualized Matter
- May 31, 2007
- John Bush — New Photographs
- April 26, 2007
- New Skool — Full Coverage
Current Exhibition
Troy Denning's Hands, 2007
Shawn Barber
The New York Experience
August 10 – September 08, 2007
Opening Reception: August 10, 2007, 6:59pm
Invisible NYC is proud to host, The New York Experience, an exhibit of new paintings by Shawn Barber and the next installment in his Tattoo Portraits series.
Originally from central New York, currently Mr. Barber is a painter living and working in San Francisco. For the past seven years, he has also been a college professor, currently teaching for the Illustration Department at CCA in San Francisco.
Mr. Barber’s paintings have been exhibited in diverse solo and group venues including: The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA; The Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, Germany; South Florida Art Center, Miami, FL; and Arcadia Fine arts, NY, NY. His work is also included in such collections as those of Robin Williams, Mat Hoffman, Van Morrison, Christian Slater and Rolling Stone magazine’s founder Jan Wenner.
Mr. Barber’s first published “Tattooed Portraits” by 9mm Books in March of 2006. A new book “Forever and Ever”, a complete catalog and overview of his entire Tattooed Portraits Series, will be released in November 2007. Additionally, Shawn is working his way through a tattoo apprenticeship with Mike Davis of Everlasting Tattoo in San Francisco, CA.
The Tattooed Portraits series is an analysis, documentation and celebration of artists that are tattooed, tattoo artists, tattooed art, and tattooist’s materials. The artists portrayed in the series are pioneers in contemporary art history.
For his exhibit at Invisible NYC, The New York Experience, Mr. Barber focuses on painting 23 of New York City’s most accomplished tattoo artists, specifically focusing on their primary tools of the trade - their hands.
The exhibit will run from August 10th – September 8th, Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 8:00 PM. The opening reception will be on Friday August 10th, from 7:00-9:00 PM.