DR LAKRA Sin título, 2009

Dr. Lakra not only renders beauty through his work as an original tattoo artist but also creates interesting designs and re-images the features of shoes, walls, and any object that can be beautifully ornamented. A friend of the famous Ed Hardy, Dr. Lakra’s macabre or tattoo-style is often eloquently placed on provocative pin-up girls, sumo wrestlers, vintage magazines, and more. Originally from Mexico, Dr. Lakra has had showings at the Drawing Center in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and a vast amount of work shared throughout Mexico, England, U.S., and France. His unique work collaborates street style tattooing with the world of fine art shared throughout his tattoo parlors, exhibitions, and markets. One of his first original pieces include an ink and paint creation on a vintage magazine called “Especial a Go Go”. As if tattooing a real woman’s skin, the nearly naked cover model appears completely designed in Dr. Lakra’s ink-marksmanship.Dr. Lakra, Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez, began with needles on the streets often tattooing friends. Since then, it seems his parent’s talents (anthropologist, painter, poet) were in his blood. Dr. Lakra has experienced the world of painting, drawing, and collage becoming famous in the process of adding his ink to the mix! Less

Dr. Lakra not only renders beauty through his work as an original tattoo artist but also creates interesting designs and re-images the features of shoes, walls, and any object that can be beautifully ornamented. A friend of the famous Ed Hardy, Dr. L More