Wolves,Witches & Clever Children

Mercury Tattoo Studio
April 14th, 2012 - June 16th

This is the 1st gallery show at Mercury's new location in Doylestown. It is also the first in our planned series of shows. We are anticipating at least 4 shows per year and are excited to get the ball rolling with this fairy tale themed group show.

"Wolves, Witches & Clever Children" as the show is named, is a group art show themed to Grimm's fairy tales. The invited artists were asked to tie their work in to one of the hundreds of stories collected and retold by the Brothers Grimm. Speaking for myself, it was a very difficult choice which story I wanted to work out. Even stories I thought I was familiar with, when visited now, are much darker and surreal than what I remembered from my childhood.

To accompany the gallery show we had a home brew and cider tasting. Our thanks to good friends Dylan Steeb and Lee Mcginniss. They are brewed 2 beers and 2 ciders to accompany the Grimm fairy tale theme! Both of the beers were considered lost German recipes. Lee also helped a ton throughout the night of the opening by being in charge of the tasting.

While we were having the art show at Mercury, we also be hosted Jay Berndt at Siren Records a stones throw from our front door! Jason is a dear friend that also happens to be an amazing singer and songwriter from Providence, RI. His style is hard to put a label on as his influences are as varied as: country/blues/soul/rock and punk. At any given point any of those influences can be clearly found in his playing/singing style. His solo work is most closely tied to the Americana traditions. Jay's website is www.jayberndt.com (he will also be playing with his band Jay Berndt and the Orphans as well as a killer local folk punk band "Top Soil" at the after party but more on that in a moment) Siren has been one of my favorite record shops since I was a teenager and I could not be more excited to be able to work with them on this! Hopefully it will serve to kick off our plan to start promoting a lot more shows in town.

Finally we were really excited to have our after party at MOM's just around the corner from the shop! As mentioned earlier Jay Berndt and the Orphans played along with good friends Top Soil from Frenchtown NJ. Top Soil is made up of Squidd and Rich Cahill (who also happens to be one hell of a good Tattooer as wellwww.richcahill.com) to describe them as bluegrass/anarcho punk doesn't make sense until you hear them. Then it just plain works. Top Soil's website is:www.topsoilpunks.com MOM's is located at 37 N Main Street Doylestown PA 18901. Just around the corner from Mercury. In our short time being open in town, we have quickly become friends and supporters of theirs for sure!

If you missed the opening, you missed a great night... But rest assured the art show is still hanging, and is certainly worth making a point of stopping by to check it out!

Below are photos and info for the artwork hanging in the show.
Click on the photo to go to the artist's website.

Thanks!