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Longtime San Francisco tattooist Don Ed Hardy, who has decorated the likes of filmmaker Werner Herzog and rockabilly-turned-swing- singer Brian Setzer, will likely join the ranks of a commission that includes a museum director and photography professor.
Brown seems nonplussed that the appointment would attract any notice. Then again, he did not foresee the fuss that would erupt when he tried to put Jane Fonda, then a vocal anti-war activist, on the California Arts Council that he created in 1976.
``Maybe it's unexpected,'' Brown said yesterday of Hardy's nomination, which must be approved by the City Council.
Brown's longtime aide, now Oakland's arts guru, was more direct.
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``If it's not unusual, what's the point?'' said the bald, clad-in-black Jacques Barzaghi in his trademark French accent. Hardy ``is fabulous,'' he said. ``He's an absolutely incredible artist.''
Barzaghi should know. He has been wearing one of Hardy's works, an elaborate Asian-motif tattoo, for nearly two decades. On his neck, he sports a tattoo by another artist that says in Latin: ``Who is silent consent?'' -- a quote from Thomas Moore.
Barzaghi, who worked for then-governor Brown, met Hardy in the early '80s through actor Peter Coyote. Coyote, who was serving on the new state arts council, had been tattooed by Hardy.
``Certainly, decorative tattooing has a long history,'' Brown said yesterday, adding that he has ``no set formula or preconceptions'' about who should serve on the 15-member arts commission, which has the task of spending nearly $1 million in city funds over the next year.
Brown and Barzaghi, who is interim director of Oakland's new Craft and Cultural Arts Department, want those spending choices to be directed by local artists.
In addition to Hardy, Brown has nominated Beth M. Gates, co- owner of a Southeast Asian art gallery in Oakland, and plans to nominate poet and author Ishmael Reed and playwright Rodrigo Duarte Clark.
``What I'm looking for is people with a spark, a way of looking at the world that can encourage clarity, freshness, different perspective,'' said Brown.
Asked if he has any tattoos, Brown replied: ``Not yet.''
Hardy, too, hopes his appointment will shatter some stereotypes about what art is and isn't.
``Hopefully, it will make people question their assumptions about art,'' said Hardy, a recent transplant to Oakland who runs Tattoo City in North Beach. ``There's a lot of snobbery in the so-called higher-art world. . . . I have a non-elitist overview of a lot of kinds of art.''
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Having made the arts one of the key pillars of Oakland's renaissance, Mayor Jerry Brown is injecting color into the local scene by nominating a nationally renowned tattoo artist to the city's Cultural Arts Commission.
Longtime San Francisco tattooist Don Ed Hardy, who has decorated the likes of filmmaker Werner Herzog and rockabilly-turned-swing- singer Brian Setzer, will likely join the ranks of a commission that includes a museum director and photography professor.
Brown seems nonplussed that the appointment would attract any notice. Then again, he did not foresee the fuss that would erupt when he tried to put Jane Fonda, then a vocal anti-war activist, on the California Arts Council that he created in 1976.
``Maybe it's unexpected,'' Brown said yesterday of Hardy's nomination, which must be approved by the City Council.
Brown's longtime aide, now Oakland's arts guru, was more direct.
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``If it's not unusual, what's the point?'' said the bald, clad-in-black Jacques Barzaghi in his trademark French accent. Hardy ``is fabulous,'' he said. ``He's an absolutely incredible artist.''
Barzaghi should know. He has been wearing one of Hardy's works, an elaborate Asian-motif tattoo, for nearly two decades. On his neck, he sports a tattoo by another artist that says in Latin: ``Who is silent consent?'' -- a quote from Thomas Moore.
Barzaghi, who worked for then-governor Brown, met Hardy in the early '80s through actor Peter Coyote. Coyote, who was serving on the new state arts council, had been tattooed by Hardy.
``Certainly, decorative tattooing has a long history,'' Brown said yesterday, adding that he has ``no set formula or preconceptions'' about who should serve on the 15-member arts commission, which has the task of spending nearly $1 million in city funds over the next year.
Brown and Barzaghi, who is interim director of Oakland's new Craft and Cultural Arts Department, want those spending choices to be directed by local artists.
In addition to Hardy, Brown has nominated Beth M. Gates, co- owner of a Southeast Asian art gallery in Oakland, and plans to nominate poet and author Ishmael Reed and playwright Rodrigo Duarte Clark.
``What I'm looking for is people with a spark, a way of looking at the world that can encourage clarity, freshness, different perspective,'' said Brown.
Asked if he has any tattoos, Brown replied: ``Not yet.''
Hardy, too, hopes his appointment will shatter some stereotypes about what art is and isn't.
``Hopefully, it will make people question their assumptions about art,'' said Hardy, a recent transplant to Oakland who runs Tattoo City in North Beach. ``There's a lot of snobbery in the so-called higher-art world. . . . I have a non-elitist overview of a lot of kinds of art.''
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