Gargalione, who goes by the name "Uncle Josh," has been tattooing for more than a decade and works at Lady Luck in Tempe. One thing that separates this weekend's convention from similar ones is the focus on area art, Josh Gargalione said. "There are so many tattoo shows that it's a bit saturated," he said.
Now, "there's one every weekend, probably at three different locations in the United States alone," he said. When he opened Club Tattoo, Dowdell estimates there were maybe four tattoo conventions each year worldwide. "Now people will come up to you on the street and check out (your work) and recognize that particular style." "I think years ago, people associated tattoos with kind of a biker mentality or lifestyle," Dowdell said. Now, Club Tattoo participates in nearly 20 conventions a year. In 2006, nearly 24 percent of American adults, aged 18 to 50, had at least one tattoo, according an article that year in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.ĭowdell, along with his wife and Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, opened Club Tattoo in 1995,when tattooing was just infiltrating the mainstream.
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Sean Dowdell, owner of Club Tattoo with five Valley locations, said the TV shows have made tattooing more mainstream, showing that tattoos are a way of expressing people's individuality. "I see people that might not have gotten a tattoo that now have seen the show(s) where they saw other people that were like-minded and said, 'You know, I really want to do something that commemorates my father,' or, 'I really want to do something that shows my kids how much I love them,' " O'Connell said.
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Most of those who attend sport the full-range of tattoos, from sleeves to back pieces to tiny ankle tattoos, but O'Connell says nearly 25 percent get inked there for the first time - a phenomenon he attributes to the success of cable television series like "L.A. The convention draws upward of 7,000 people a year and is an opportunity to promote tattooing, said expo founder Sage O'Connell, who owns Urban Art Tattoo in Mesa.
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