Check out Boston Rogoz’s Artwork

Today we’d like to introduce you to Boston Rogoz.

Boston, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
I grew up on the coast of Massachusetts lucky enough to have awesome parents that chose to nurture my love for art. As a kid I was always drawing so at a young age I started with drawing lessons. That led to art school and then studying abroad in Italy. Throughout art school and after I studied and exhibited as a painter and sculptor. I drifted away from art to motorcycles for almost a decade, and it almost killed me, but not before it brought me to Arizona. It wasn’t till after I was in a terrible motorcycle wreck that left me with a shattered femur, compound fractured tibia and almost every ligament in my knee torn or severed. Later on, I found out I also broke my neck and fractured my skull in the same wreck without it ever being addressed. A couple of years and several surgeries after being told that I’d be disabled for life and would most likely never walk unassisted again, I had the opportunity for a tattoo apprenticeship. To be honest, I wasn’t that interested in tattooing, I wasn’t interested in anything, but I figured why not. Man, am I glad I did. Once I actually tattooed and had some solid mentoring, I realized that this was the medium I had been looking for my whole life. From that point on I hit the ground running (figuratively) and haven’t looked back.

We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
Regardless of the medium, I’ve always worked large, so as I progressed as a tattooer I gravitated to larger scale work. I always preferred the look of large bodysuit style tattoos so Japanese and Japanese inspired tattoos really caught my eye. I never wanted my tattoos to look like a sticker placed on the skin. I wanted my tattoos to have more of a completing effect rather than just an addition. I want it to flow well and compliment the body in a way that the wearer couldn’t imagine not having it. I started doing coverups early in my career realizing that if I wanted to do large work I was going to have to get good at coverups cause old tattoos that clients didn’t care about were always in the way of my plan. I never could have guessed how much that was going to take off. Nowadays almost 80% of the work I do is coverups. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll always prefer fresh skin for a tattoo but the reaction I get after covering up a tattoo or scar that has plagued someone for years, that multiple artists told them it was not coverable, there’s few things better than that.

Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
I currently tattoo at Living Canvas Tattoos in Tempe, AZ. Come on by and get a tattoo!

Contact Info:

• Address: Living Cavas Tattoos
  930 S Mill Ave
  Tempe, AZ
  85289
• Website: www.BostonRogozTattoos.com
• Phone: 480-829-6966
• Email: bostonrogoz@gmail.com
• Instagram: @bostonrogoztattoo
• Facebook: BostonRogozTattoos

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