Drip Gallery DC

Drip Gallery DC at 1641 Wisconsin Avenue NW is a tattoo studio and fine art gallery in the upper Georgetown commercial district, combining the exhibition of fine art with the professional tattoo practice in the specific hybrid format that has become a distinctive category in the contemporary urban arts and body art landscape. The gallery-tattoo hybrid, which presents the tattoo practice as the equivalent fine art form to the painting and the sculpture that the gallery wall displays, reflects the contemporary cultural reassessment of the tattoo as a legitimate fine art practice rather than the subcultural tradition it occupied in the mainstream cultural assessment through most of the twentieth century.

The tattoo practice at Drip Gallery DC is organized around the custom tattoo design that the tattoo artist develops in collaboration with the client: the Georgetown tattoo client who comes to Drip Gallery DC for the custom tattoo is commissioning the original artwork from the tattoo artist whose portfolio and whose aesthetic sensibility match the specific vision the client wants to realize on the skin. The custom tattoo appointment at the gallery tattoo studio begins with the design consultation that establishes the concept, the placement, the size, and the stylistic approach before the artwork is developed.

The fine art gallery component of the Drip Gallery DC space presents the original artwork of the tattoo artists and the affiliated fine artists in the gallery format, providing the Georgetown visitor with the art exhibition alongside the tattoo consultation.

Hours run Tuesday through Saturday. The Drip Gallery DC at 1641 Wisconsin Avenue NW provides the Georgetown community with the gallery-quality art exhibition in the same space as the professional tattoo studio, which creates the specific dual-use commercial space that the contemporary arts and body arts convergence reflects. The Georgetown visitor to the Drip Gallery who comes for the art exhibition and who discovers the tattoo studio in the same space is encountering the contemporary art world’s reassessment of the tattoo as a legitimate fine art practice that belongs in the gallery context.

The tattoo artist at Drip Gallery DC whose work appears in both the fine art exhibition on the gallery wall and in the tattoo portfolio that the tattoo client reviews before the booking is operating in both the gallery arts and the body arts traditions simultaneously, which is the specific artistic identity that the gallery tattoo studio cultivates. Hours run Tuesday through Saturday at 1641 Wisconsin Avenue NW. Drip Gallery DC at 1641 Wisconsin Avenue NW Georgetown is open for gallery viewing and tattoo consultation Tuesday through Saturday. The upper Wisconsin Avenue address at 1641 NW, in the commercial block near the Capitol Danks boutique and the Hunter and Huntress antiques, places the gallery tattoo studio in the Georgetown upper commercial district. The tattoo consultation appointment at Drip Gallery is the beginning of the custom tattoo commission process.