July 30 – August 30 2024

Closing Reception: August 27, 4:30-6:30pm

Curfman Gallery

Marked is an art exhibition featuring the work of five local tattooers.

Erin Atencio

Erin Atencio is a tattooer working in Fort Collins Colorado. She started tattooing with a two year apprenticeship under Ishmael Johnson of Scrimshaw Tattoo in Fort Collins, Colorado and Andrew Milko of The Other Club in Wickford Village, Rhode Island. After apprenticing she began tattooing full time in 2020 at Scrimshaw Tattoo. Erin studied art at PNCA In Portland Oregon for 1 year before moving back to Colorado permanently. Most of her formal art experience is as a painter using acrylic paint, and she explores themes of modern femininity and her own identity as a woman. 

Ishmael Johnson

Ishmael Johnson started tattooing in 2000, and since then he has dedicated himself to putting great Japanese, Americana, and weirdo tattoos onto his clients. When he isn’t tattooing at Scrimshaw Tattoo in Fort Collins, you can find Ishmael at conventions and shops across the United States and around the world. He is regularly found at the Salt Lake City Tattoo Convention, the Montreal Art Tattoo Show, Austin Tattoo Convention, and he tattooed at the International Puerto Rico Tattoo Convention in December of 2016. Some of the shops that he visits for guest-spots include Heart of Gold in Salt Lake City, Salvation Tattoo in Richmond, Invisible NYC, Liquid Courage in Omaha, Copenhagen’s Le Fix, All Gold Tattoo in Gothenburg, Webbworks Tattoo in Florida, Reykjavík Ink in Iceland, and many others.

Emil Orth

Emil Orth  began spending time in tattoo shops in his early twenties. He moved from Memphis, TN to Denver, CO in 2018. Orth put together a three-week group show, “All Souls Stranger,” in 2019, which consisted of paintings by the tattooers of Lifetime Tattoo as well as friend Michael Watson. Through the show, Orth was introduced to Ian Lütz, a known talent in tattooing, especially large scale tribal and ornamental. They became friends and Orth eventually became an apprentice of Lütz. Orth currently works as a tattooer at World Tattoo Studio in Denver.

Makile Rivera

Makile Rivera became interested in tattooing as a child, and in high school, began hanging out at the tattoo shop across the street from his school. He got his first tattoo from this shop, with a drawing he did himself. Soon, they began giving Rivera drawing assignments, and told him that he could apprentice with them upon his high school graduation. Rivera now works at Magnetic Tattoo and continues to create paintings outside of the shop.

Greg Skibo

In 1974, Skibo met and was tattooed in Denver by an old school New York artist, Peter Tat2 Poulos, who had just opened a shop downtown. Skibo started getting tattooed regularly and the two became friends, and by fall he was an apprentice. Skibo worked and traveled for Peter Tat2 Poulos until 1982, tattooing in many of his shops. In the spring of 1982 he and his wife Peggy moved north and opened their own shop, eventually studios in Fort Collins and Greeley CO as well as Cheyenne WY. Now retired, Skibo works on his own artwork and continues to do guest artist spots around the Front Range.