Wayne County Arts Alliance announces new exhibit

The Wayne County Arts Alliance Gallery recently announced a unique exhibition. “Idle Hours” is an art show and concept curated by Dan Nelson of Happy Tattoo, currently on view at the WCAA Gallery at 959 Main Street in Honesdale.

The show features nine tattoo artists who are showing art that has been created “in spite of their profession,” the gallery explained. “Tattooing is a job; however, most outsiders view it as an art form. Tattooers themselves tend to view tattooing as a trade. Like many trades, there are traditions and rules which have been set forth by those who came before. Because of the intensity of the work, the hyper-focus, the showmanship, the one on one nature of the process, the exhausted tattooer often clocks out after work.”

Idle Hours is an attempt to highlight those who don’t let tattooing get in the way of pursuing art. The show features tattooers from across the U.S., who in addition to exhibiting their work, will be tattooing live in the gallery (August 10 to 11). The artists include J. Adams, Jacob Des, Hillary Fisher-White, Chris Kline, Ryan Mettz, Amelia Martin, Jeff Pfeil, A.P. Shrewsbury, Erik Von Bartholomaus, and a special neon accompaniment Wayne Heller (MoonSignNYC).

The show will run until August 30, with an opening reception on August 9 from 5 to 10 p.m. Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday.