=-The Ultimate Tattoo & Body Piercing =-

Shawn Conn

Shawn Conn (aka: Shantyshawn, Shanty) apprenticed under Todd "Bare" Barry, who learned the craft from Sailor Barney, of Sailor Fred's Golden Needle fame. The first family of tattooing in Rochester. He was also given a lot of valuable guidance by Doc Yager and Angelina as he embarked on his career as an ink jockey.

He opened a shop in 1991 in Brockport, NY with "Bare" called Wild Side Art, Inc, which eventually moved to Holley and was ultimately closed in 1995. He then moved to Erie, PA where he tattooed at various shops as a guest artist, until moving back to NY in 1997, where he tattooed part time in Brockport with Angelina and her sister Lidia at Cosmic Rainbow II, until he ended up working at Wild Side (just a coincidence) in Rochester, NY. In 1999 Wild Side opened up a second location in Henrietta, NY headed up by Shawn and was eventually taken over by The Ultimate.

In 2006, Shawn began to cut back his hours, in order to concentrate on his desire to pursue a painting career. His work has been in numerous shows around the country and world, including LA, Denmark and Thailand. He's also become involved in the apparel industry designing t-shirts, such as the heralded "Blackbird's Attackin' in the Dead O' Night" at Design by Humans, as well as shirts for Artcotic, Futureshirts and others.

Shawn has had his work featured in various trade publications and has amassed an impressive collection of awards over the years. He specializes in dark art, black & grey and animal and human portraiture, but he's developed a large following of fans due to his versatility and willingness to be available to his clients.

Shawn has had his work featured in various trade publications and has amassed an impressive collection of awards over the years. He specializes in black & gray and full color dark art and pop surrealism. Shawn only works a couple days a week, due to his busy art career, but he tries hard to keep his booking out only a few months. If you'd like to get tattooed by Shawn, you have to have patience, but we guarantee the wait will be well worth it.

- Tattoo Flash by Shawn Conn: Cilck Here

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- Blackbirds shirt: Click Here

- Artcotic: Click Here

Sue Gertner

Sue has been drawing and painting her entire life. She studied art in high school and then at RIT. After college, she traveled the country and resided in California, then in Maui, where she continued painting and also learned tattooing.

Upon her return to NY, she worked at Wild Ink and finally ended up at The Ultimate.

Sue the Script Queen enjoys tattooing bold and bright colors and is especially well versed in a wide variety of lettering styles.

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Mariah Rose

The daughter of an art teacher, Mariah’s life has always centered around art. Her favorite mediums include charcoal, graphite, acrylic paint and oil paint. She received an Associates degree in Advertising from Monroe Community College in 2006 and completed her Bachelors degrees in Art History and Studio Art (with concentrations in Drawing and Painting) in Decemberof 2008. She has exhibited work at Lovin’ Cup and will be showing paintings at the Tap and Mallet on October 1^st.

The opportunity to tattoo fell into Mariah’s lap over 2 years ago and she hasn’t looked back. She enjoys bold color and appreciates the subtlety of black and grey. She excels in pin-ups, realism (especially portraits), Celtic knot work, lettering, and stylized American traditional. Mariah is friendly, laid back and will listen to you with an open mind to be sure that you receive the tattoo you desire.

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Dustin McAndrew

Friday & Saturday 7pm - 10pm
Sunday Noon - 6pm

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