RESIDENT ARTISTS OF CONSTELLATION

MARLOW (WOLFGORE)

Marlow was raised in both Portland and the lush islands of Hawaii. The artwork and tattoos they create references the dense jungle foliage and variety of East Asian culture found in the state. Marlow moved to Portland in 2015 to learn to tattoo, and bring a lifetime of artwork to skin. With work that ranges from grotesque and emotional to botanical and natural, Marlow is trying to add a new sort of feeling with tattooing- one that respects, acknowledges cultural imagery, one that allows for things not conventionally seen as beautiful to the western and common eye to become more than that, one that remains accessible and allows all sorts of people to enjoy tattoos regardless of their background or social standing, and one that strays from both the boys' club stereotype and the exclusionary and expensive side of tattooing. As someone who is both queer and a person of color, this is a goal Marlow tries to achieve with every encounter.

Marlow is most frequently at the shop working, drawing, or at home hanging out with their kickass roommates.

IG: @wolfgore

A-B M (VALLEY)

A-B M is a non-binary, interdisciplinary artist from the Carolinas who specializes in both freehand and custom illustrative black linework tattoos. A-B graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2013 with a BFA in painting, and began tattooing in the winter of 2014, learning and sharing skills of the trade amongst artists and friends in Baltimore before chasing the sun to the west coast in 2015. Tattooing saved their life; they view tattooing as a way to hold radical space for healing, processing, and sharing intimacy with their community.

A-B's work features fantastic creatures drawn to fit the landscape of the body, rendered with special attention to line weight, texture, and movement. They are inspired by esoteric archetypes, illustrative symbology, folk narratives, and storytelling, with a style informed by elements of psychedelia, vintage bookplates and a variety of printmaking techniques and print history, as well as by collaboration with their clients. A-B also makes drawings, shrinky-dinks, comics, flyers, and sculptures from a home studio at a collective housing project in Milwaukie, Oregon. In their spare time, A-B can be found admiring the desert, planning road trips, treasuring their rock collection, taking photos, and making mixtapes for friends.

Booking info for A-B can be found at
http://www.a bmtattoo.com

IG: @v_a_l_l_e_y

goats

left (fresh), right (healed) matching goats on calves for jess

goat

fresh goat on calf for jess

fresh fruit bat skull on upper outer arm for casper

houndour

colored houndour coverup on the forearm for tiffany

pokemon

colored lower inner forearm pieces for tiffany, both fresh

shishi

healed shishi (石狮) “guardian lions, foo dogs” for nicole on the outer upper arm (1/2)

shishi

healed shishi (石狮) “guardian lions, foo dogs” for nicole on the outer upper arm (2/2)

trust your gut

colorful highland cow piece on the stomach for gray (fresh)

eat the rich

“eat the rich” opossum scream at own ass for noah. on the lower side of torso/stomach (fresh)

trans werewolf

trans werewolf friend on the thigh for niko (fresh)

you have beautiful eyes

over the garden wall dog for angela (several uv reactive inks). lines in deep wine/purple color as they had a colored line theme with their tattoos. on the upper outer arm (some healed, some fresh)

collared bat

bat with collar on upper thigh/inner hip/groin for @tastefulobituary on IG (fresh)

cobra

colorful cobra on the outer forearm for indu (fresh) (1/2)

cobra

colorful cobra on the outer forearm for indu (fresh) (2/2)

curse bat

curse bat on the outer forearm for casper (fresh)

lullaby wolf

uv reactive pink lullaby wolf on the outer calf for jasper (fresh)

leaf bunny

bun eating leaf on the outer thigh for shae (fresh)

bone muncher

bearded vulture chest piece for lu (fresh)

golden knee chaco

golden knee chaco for spyder on the upper thigh

my father's dragon

boris the dragon from the children’s book series “my father’s dragon”. colored tattoo on the upper outer arm for nina (fresh)

salmonberries

opossum in salmonberries for wren. colored tattoo on the forearm (fresh)

dratini

colored dratini tattoo for leandra (part of a matching pair of dratini tattoos). on the outer calf (fresh) (1/2)

dratini

colored dratini tattoo for leandra (part of a matching pair of dratini tattoos). on the outer calf (healed) (2/2)

mew mew

little kitty take on the classic japanese folk toy inu hariko for zoe. on the inner forearm (fresh)

trash baby

colored opossum tattoo on the back of shoulder for harrison (fresh)

wartortle

colored wartortle piece on the inner upper arm for eric (fresh)

demon fox

demon fox piece for dylan on the inner forearm (fresh)

shishi

shishi based on a statue/figure for nicole. on the upper inner arm, orange is uv reactive (fresh) (1/2)

shishi

shishi based on a statue/figure for nicole. on the upper inner arm, orange is uv reactive (fresh) (2/2)

dragonite

dragonite flash colored tattoo for mattie. placed on the upper inner arm (fresh)

shishi

shishi on the outer forearm for xavier (fresh, in progress)

moe

colored pet tattoo of moe on tash! on the upper thigh

OLLIE ✦ (HOURNOON)

hournoon is the daydream of ollie, a mixed chinese, queer, nonbinary-trans person. they/he pronouns. ollie grew up in cowlitz + clackamas land (SE portland) and has resided here making art ever since. they have been tattooing professionally since 2019, and are drawn to colorful, high contrast animals and mythical creatures in their designs.

ollie’s art is entwined with influences from 80-90’s anime and manga, monster movies, video games, chinese mythology, and animation cel-painting.

being of mixed heritage and inhabiting a trans/gender non-conforming body, ollie is familiar with feeling out of place and unreal inhabiting their vessel. they aim to have their practice of tattooing be grounding and reclaiming of the flesh, BIPOC-centered, accessible and full of love.

while tattooing is hournoon’s current artistic focal point, illustration, apparel design, sticker making, painting, resin crafts and more are all other mediums that build up ollie’s work. you can check out more examples of these mediums in the gallery portion on their website below.

IG: @hournoon ✦ hournoon.com ✦ merch: shop.hournoon.com

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