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MERYL @ Taboo Tattoos

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About Me

"Meryl grew up on Long Island, currently lives in Monmouth County and has been working as a tattoo artist at Taboo Tattoos in Keyport for three years. She graduated from the Parson School of Design in New York and after working as an art director in a large corporation for 8 years, quit her job to apprentice to the tattoo artist Denise De La Cerda in Jersey City. She has been creating tattoos for 5 ½ years. Meryl studies myth and mysticism of all cultures and is particularly interested in Hindu and Buddhist deities, such as Kali who is known by Hindus as the Dark Mother and Goddess of Destruction."

My Interests

Asian art, culture and religion, music, gardening, cooking...

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Cheap Trick, HIM, Neil Young, DJ Cheb, Mono, the Damned, Explosions In the Sky, Soundgarden, Children of Bodom, Slayer, Warren Zevon, and oh so many more...

Movies:

Nightmare Before Christmas, Curse of the Wererabbit, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, Magnolia, Baron Von Munchausen, The Fisher King, Old Boy, Coppola's Dracula, etc...

Television:

The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Rescue Me, Dead Like Me, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Carnivale, Deadwood, South Park, PeeWee's Playhouse...

Books:

The Omnivore's Dilemna, The Jungle, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Interview with a Vampire, The Art of Happiness, anything by Pearl Buck, Isabel Allende, Barbara Kingsolver, Flaubert, Zola, Drieser, and more more more...

Heroes:

Dr. Seuss, those crazy Tibetan monks who spend years painting thangkas, the Dalai Lama...
Influences *COMING SOON!*

My Blog

Article in The Independent - November 2, 2004

Tattoo art not a Taboo topic at Keyport parlor Award-winning artist Meryl Hurwich joins Broad Street business BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer KEYPORT Maybe youve seen them around town the bu...
Posted by MERYL @ Taboo Tattoos on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:42:00 PST