Dani Lugosi Tattoo Modeling

 Dani Lugosi Tattoo Modeling

Dani Lugosi :My coffee mug – it’s one of those ‘make your coffee at home & take it with you’ mugs, a non spill one that spills all the time! Oh and my padlock & chain I wear all the time.

Eva Huber Tattoo Models

Think astrophysicist and you’re more likely to conjure an image of Albert Einstein than one of petite blonde Eva Huber. Yet for this 26-year-old tattoo artist, “Breaking life down to a molecular level is one of the most intriguing topics—it’s the fiber that surrounds our very existence.” Make no mistake, Huber is 110 percent happy with her chosen profession, despite the muscle soreness that comes from a day’s work.

When she’s not at the shop, this Easthampton, MA, resident spends time checking her MySpace page (myspace.com/evajean) and adding to her own growing collection of tattoos. With pieces from more than 20 artists, she regrets none, not even the “piece of crap tribal flash I picked off the wall in a sketchy shop when I was 16.” Current favorites include those on her fingers and the black and gray eye on her left forearm, both courtesy of Thomas Hooper. It’s when describing the full-color eye on her right wrist (“It has energy-esque patterns emanating off of it”) and reciting the list of people she’d like to tattoo—Alkaline Trio, Andrew W.K., and theoretical physicist Edward Witten—that the connection between Huber’s tattoos and the Hawking-like side of her persona emerges.

She is hesitant to reveal what will be next, but does expect to be twice as tattooed as she is now in just five years. “My tattoos represent that I am a confident person who is completely comfortable with wearing tattoos, doing tattoos, and not trying to look like this perfect Barbie of a woman,” she says. “I am me, and being me includes not giving a fuck about how people think a woman should look.” And, it seems, being Eva also includes analyzing the theory of relativity.

Mc Pherson Tattoos Models

Sitting down with artist Tara McPherson you’re likely to get a lesson in physics these days: “When you take a super bright object, like a quasar, and place it in front of a massive object, it creates the illusion of four identical objects surrounding the original. That’s called Einstein’s Cross gravitational lens.” To hear this pouring so fluidly out of the mouth of an artist who is known more for gothic characters and insanely beautiful rock show posters than for having a keen acumen for science is surprising.

McPherson, a California native who transplanted to New York three years ago, speaks of this as she sits in her storefront studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, burning the midnight oil in preparation for her show at the Jonathan Levine gallery, which begins February 23.

McPherson’s work is prolific and easily recognizable. Her gothic-vibed characters have been growing a steady following for nearly a decade, and her work is regularly transformed into tattoos, as well as an impressive collection of toy figurines (though it was duly noted that her own tattoos are designed not by herself, but by other artists).

McPherson’s new series of paintings is inspired by the aforementioned Einstein theory, and it will be added to an already-other-worldly collection of work, where characters with names like Orion come from distant planets wearing sexy school uniforms. The five new paintings feature girls with identical facial features (think huge, watery doe eyes and heart-shaped faces, not unlike McPherson’s), but each has a unique anomaly growing from her head. “I’m really interested these days in the body internal manifesting itself as external. … Of showing thoughts becoming physical,” she explains. Out of one head sprouts a branch with leaves resembling pink tongues; another is growing a “skull flower.”

 

For this series, McPherson has abandoned her usual acrylic medium in favor of slower-drying oil paint, which has changed her process completely. “I used to work on only one piece until I was completely finished, but now I find myself working on one layer of one painting, then on to another, and then back again.” Her signature wallpaper backdrops show up in floral and fleur-de-lis, and the series also features some of her other regulars, like Mr. Wiggles, the “emotive defender” balloon head whose roll is to warn people of things to come and speak for those without words. “My work is supremely personal,” says McPherson. “I’m not making any political statements. It’s just how I absorb and understand my life. It’s my process.”

Ira Chernova Tattoo Models

Stepping in front of the lens as this month’s Inked girl is ira Chernova, who’s normally on the other end of the shutter. “People usually think I’m a model and are always surprised to find out I’m a photographer,” she explains—with complete humility, we should add. But for Russian-born Chernova, photography is more than just a profession. “It’s not a job or hobby—it’s a total lifestyle,” she says. Case in point: When asked to describe her ideal day, Chernova says she would be working. “I’d love to work on a photo shoot in the morning, then do some more work in the afternoon.”

This intense work ethic isn’t entirely unrelated to her self-admitted obsessive tendencies to plan and overanalyze. “I’m in a constant state of panic. I analyze and worry about everything. Everything,” she says.

Interestingly, her ink is the one thing she doesn’t obsess about. Take, for example, her first tattoo, a sign of clubs on her left side. “I just woke up one day thinking it’d be cool to get it,” she recounts. “I thought that maybe, just maybe, I’d get one tattoo and then wouldn’t want more—obviously that didn’t work out.”

The origins of her other pieces are just as random. The “Heroes never live, legends never die” quote on her side is from a song she heard during a spontaneous bus ride. While she knows she’ll get more tattoos, people in her home country don’t give her ink a warm reception. In fact, there is a cold (war) mentality when it comes to her appearance. “In Moscow, people think they’re tough; they make fun of you and talk bullshit. That’s not the case in other European countries,” she says. That is only one of the reasons Chernova plans to move to Amsterdam later this year. “I’m excited about everything, but mostly about starting a new life,” she says. A life that we’d be willing to bet is already very well planned out.

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