Once you have one, data show, you'll get more. Today, an increasingly popular style of tattoo art is called black and gray. Black and gray used to be referred to as joint-style or prison-style ...

A popular style of tattooing called "black and gray realism" has its roots in East LA's Chicano culture. It moved from California prisons in the 1970s to high-end tattoo shops worldwide.

His work, along with other examples of the black-and-gray style, is on view at the Natural History Museum as part of the traveling “Tattoo” exhibition that opened Sunday. The exhibition ...

Negrete became involved with everything from drugs and alcohol to religion to academia before rededicating himself to black-and-gray tattoos in the 1990s. But over the years, he had kept in touch ...

Although the American traditional tattoo style has had a longer presence in Southern California, the region is more synonymous for its fine-line black-and-gray tradition. That’s part of what ...

Born and raised in Wilmington, DE, Eric Marcinizyn is a rising star in black and gray tattoo. Tattooing for just three and a half years, he mixes West Coast styles with East Coast reference point.

If you or someone you know has tattoos, you might recognize this style of tattooing that's become really popular at the moment. It's called black and gray realism. Shereen Marisol Meraji from our ...

It moved from California prisons in the... The Roots Of 'Black And Gray Realism' Tattoos NOEL KING, HOST: If you or someone you know has tattoos, you might recognize this style of tattooing that's ...