CJ Tattoo relocates from St. Mark's Place to Avenue C

Photos by Stacie Joy 

CJ Tattoo has a new home at 55 Avenue C at Fourth Street. 

EVG contributor Stacie Joy took these photos this past Thursday as workers were prepping the space...

The shop was up and running (with temp signage for now) on Saturday. 

CJ was previously at 103 St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue these past nearly six years. No. 55 was last home to O'Flaherty's, the art gallery-performance space now at 44 Avenue A.

At the debut of O’Flaherty’s on Avenue C

O'Flaherty's made its debut last evening at 55 Avenue C... and EVG contributor Stacie Joy was on hand... 

This is the first gallery by artist-curator Jamian Juliano-Villani, who opened the space with a show titled "Dingle does O'Flaherty's" ... which featured the work of the L.A.-based Dingle (seen below in a quiet moment with Juliano-Villani)...

The show, up through December, spans 50 years of Dingle's career... including these "psycho-tods," which the gallery described as "a fucked up form of anti-everything nihilism or something along those lines."

... and the crowd...

The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday from noon to 7 p.m.

Inaugural show for O’Flaherty’s debuts tonight at 55 Avenue C

O'Flaherty's makes its debut tonight at 55 Avenue C.

No, it's not a bar, but rather a new art gallery via artist-curator Jamian Juliano-Villani here at Fourth Street. (The gallery is said to be an homage to Irish pubs and Juliano-Villani's own drinking habits.) 

EVG contributor Stacie Joy took these photos the other week as Juliano-Villani prepped the space for the first show.

First, about the show, titled "Dingle does O'Flaherty's" ...

Dingle is a 70-year-old freak living in LA. The work in this show spans 50 years, the photos are from 1974, the sculptures are from 1994. These figures are 27 years old; however…Don't call them dolls, she'll be pissed. These are "psycho-tods," a fucked up form of anti-everything nihilism or something along those lines. These are babies with intention, hating the world and ready to destroy shit. 

Now about the gallery... this via Artnet News...

[I]n an effort to rebrand herself "beyond my stupid, cheeseball paintings," as she put it, she's opening her own gallery ...

"I've been wanting to do this for a while," Juliano-Villani told Artnet News. "My work is a combination of references anyway, but there's only so much I can do with painting, and I enjoy ideas way more."

While the space will function as a commercial gallery, she also sees it as something of a performance in disguise. "I'm going to start wearing black, really cool fake Prada suits," she said.

The gallery is open tonight from 7-9. (Checking on hours after tonight.)

And the flyswatter in the above pic will be available in the gallery's gift shop.