Omaha Tattoo Shop Dreams comes True!
Local tattoo artist’s dreams come true. The doors to a new revolution opened on Sept. 1. The day they would remember all their lives. Their dreams took shape into Revolution Studio, a new tattoo studio, located at 50th and L Streets in Omaha.
The seed to the revolution was sowed with one common mission: to revolt against the Boss-Slave system. The system, in which, bosses treat the workers as slaves. Commanding them what to do and what not to. They were tired of being held back from their careers as artists.
Finally, their dreams of making city more colorful, one person at a time, Ideas of being their own bosses, come true. Dreams of doing what they love, creating art in the form of tattoos on human canvas.
Lenny Renkin, Rob Pace, Isaac Armas and Chad Elsasser are all tattoo artists. They have come together from different tattoo studios to start their own. They finally succeeded in the form of Revolution Studio.
Their art is people. Pace has been tattooing for hire for six years, while Renkin, Elsasser and Armas started their tattooing careers more seriously two years ago. Each had, their own reasons for their common studio.
Renkin says that tattooing is just another medium since, she been artists for her whole life. When asked about any fears in opening their own business, Renkin simply replied that, we have no fears about opening the shop. If we did, we wouldn’t have opened it. Her future plans are simple and optimistic by saying that, she would like to improve constantly and not move backwards.
When coming to Pace he says that is just glad enough that he is able to own his own studio. In one simple word, he conveyed everything as freedom. I have worked for people in the past and it was a disaster, an absolute disaster. Friends become enemies. Freedom of schedule, and freedom to work at their own pace and Freedom, to have their own goals. My mission is to only create 100 percent the best of my ability over anything just to create art. Creating human art, like tattooing, is by far the greatest mission adds Pace.
Elsasser, a junior in the UNO College of Fine Arts, expresses his views as people may argue that tattoos aren’t fine art, but he is ready to prove those people wrong. Though, it is hectic juggling school and work at the studio, he takes it as a cross curriculum. I’m glad I can bring the fine arts into tattooing and the tattooing into the fine arts world. It’s hard in the academic world to show them just how much of a fine art tattooing really is, but I’m glad I had a chance to do it. His goal is to have work all about the art.
Armas said that his goal is to be the No. 1 store in Omaha, not in dollars, but in artwork put out into the city.
They are also doing what it takes to have their art be safe. There are hundreds of things they do that the client probably never thinks of. Everything is disposable, tools that are not disposable get a liquid sterile then get hand scrubbed and sanitized through autoclaves.
Safety of the people coming into our shop is what we watch out for, along ours.
Pace boldly admits that, it takes a lot of work to open your own business. Besides your having your business licenses, tax I.D. numbers, your rent spots, advertising and common sense things, it takes pure perseverance and an insane drive to conquer.