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Friday Sep 23, 2005
LANE TUROWSKI - International Man of Ink
From the land of cheese and light beer hails a very special artist — one who can’t leave his zip code without being chased down by friends and fans begging him to do some work. Lane Turowski may be based in Wisconsin right now, but when I met up with him during his short stay in Williamsburg here in New York, he may as well have been a resident because kids "in the know" were ringing his phone off the hook trying to catch him before he headed back to the Midwest.
Turowski is well-known for his use of thick lines, and he prefers to do large pieces like the neck to mid-calf Asian inspired back piece he was working on before he left town. However, the day that I met him he was doing a smaller tattoo – a pair of scissors on a forearm as a favor for one of his friends.
“I try extremely hard not to do pieces I don’t feel good about, and I will totally just put someone off if the design doesn’t feel good. I never want to do anything half assed.”
At 17, Lane got his first tattoo and tried to get an apprenticeship but kept hitting dead ends when the guy who was going to start teaching him moved to Philly. He went to art school after that, and started teaching himself. Turowski has gotten very skilled at doing portraits; I saw for myself by just flipping through his book the insanely accurate and realistic replications of everyone from Janis Joplin to family members to fairies that he’s done.
“I don’t really have a favorite style, I like to keep it all mixed up. Lately I’ve been into Asian style tattoos but that’s just now. I don’t ever want to get bored with what I’m doing.”
Turowski will be crossing the Atlantic Ocean to move to the UK this winter, and he’ll be bringing his impressive artistry with him. Catch him there if you can. You can track him down in Milwaukee , or somewhere in between before then.
LANE TUROWSKI @ THE ADAMBOMB GALLERY
2028 N. Martin Luther King Dr
Milwaukee, WI
414.276.2662
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