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| Bio Tanja Nixx was born and raised in Hannover Germany. She made an apprenticeship in Graphic-design. In 1988 Tanja left Germany, to go to the Republic of the Congo, ended up living there for a while and then crossed Africa on the Congo-River, traveled through South East Asia and finally settled down in San Francisco. She started painting and drawing again, while making a living bartending. In 1993 she started to learn tattooing on her friends and bar patrons. In 1995 she was hired as an apprentice at the famous "Lyle Tuttle Tattoo" and promoted a year later as the manager and bought the shop in 2001. The same year(1995) she started to co-produce and act as one of the main characters, in the independent road movie called "Love Will Travel." The film was featured in numerous film festivals in the US and Europe. In 2006 she finished a book about her travels to Africa called SLEEPING MY WAY THROUGH THE CONGO. Traveling to different countries in search for desolation and abandonment, she takes photos, which she uses as references for her paintings: When I see old abandoned houses, they give me a sense of beauty, trust and warmth. Barrenness makes me wonder, where did the people go and why did they leave? They are unnoticed by most, but next to the monumental beauty, they give them character and making them shine. Shows |