Five Lives In One
Permanent Mark
Sep 5 - Oct 17, 2026
Timeless Thrills®
3714 J Street Sacramento, CA
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Timeless Thrills is pleased to present Five Lives In One, a solo exhibition by Permanent Mark featuring tufted rugs, furniture, original artwork, and more.
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Permanent Mark
Gallery Statement
Coming Soon
Artist Bio
Permanent Mark is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans more than four decades of image-making across film, tattooing, painting, printmaking, collage, and mixed media.
Mark began his professional creative career in Southern California in the 1980s, working in film as a scenic painter before progressing into production design. In 1989, he began tattooing at Venice Tattoo, launching a career that would take him across several continents and place him within some of the most influential tattoo communities of the period.
He later established a tattoo shop in Cape Town, South Africa, before relocating to Amsterdam to work alongside Henk Schiffmacher. In the mid-1990s, Mark traveled throughout Asia before eventually settling in Tokyo, where he spent time with Japanese tattoo master Horiyoshi III in Yokohama, talking tattooing and gaining insight from his experience.
During seven years in Japan, Mark continued expanding his creative practice beyond tattooing. He developed work in apparel and publishing, organized the Tokyo Tattoo Conventions of 1999 and 2000, and presented his artwork through a series of solo exhibitions. These experiences became part of a practice that increasingly moved between tattooing, art, design, and other forms of image-making.
After more than 30 years in tattooing, Mark stepped away from the profession to focus fully on a multidisciplinary studio practice that had developed alongside his tattoo career. Working across painting, collage, silkscreen, sculpture, textiles, cyanotype, and mixed media, his work brings together techniques and imagery accumulated through decades of making, experimentation, and travel.
Rather than treating these periods as separate careers, Mark’s current practice draws from their collective history, allowing the imagery, processes, and experiences of one creative life to continually inform the next.
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Opening Reception
Sat, Sep 5, 2026 | 6-9pm
On View
Sep 5 - Oct 17, 2026
Exhibition Links
Coming Soon
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