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WORCESTER  Meet the city’s newest gallery owner: Ben W. Mack, an affable, heavily inked tattoo artist with a throw-back handlebar mustache.Mr. Mack, who tops off his distinctive look with an ever-present porkpie hat, aims to shake up the local tattoo subculture and the city’s arts community by bringing them together under one roof.
The Worcester native recently opened Dark World Gallery, an art exhibition space tucked inside his spacious Grafton Hill tattoo shop.
Mr. Mack launched the venture within a venture last month with a showing of Worcester artist Jonathan M. Hansen’s “The Asylum Series,†a collection of mixed-media paintings exploring the primitive, sometimes brutal care dispensed by early mental hospitals.
The current show, an eclectic selection of tattoo artist Morgan Freeman’s bold paintings and sketches, continues through the end of March. The next exhibition will feature oil-on-wood portraits by Sara Adrian of Columbus, Ohio.
Address for the show is:
Dark World Gallery
179 Grafton St.
Worcester, Mass
If you're in the area, stop on by!
Show is from April 4-30, reception is on the 6th.
Sadly I can't make it... but it should be a good time :)
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