Body of Work
Featuring Aya Galgani, Sara Sremac, Lyu Walstad, and Cierson Zambo
Harsh Collective is pleased to present Body of Work, a group exhibition featuring fine art and tattoo artists Aya Galgani, Sara Sremac, Lu Walstad, and Cierson Zambo from Nice Try Tattoo, an independent tattoo studio based in Brooklyn.
Body of Work brings the work of Nice Try Tattoo—a collaboratively-owned, artist-run studio in Brooklyn—into dialogue with the fine art world, offering a legitimizing platform for artists whose primary medium is skin. Founded by Cierson Zambo, Sara Sremac, and Ella Sklaw, Nice Try represents a rejection of hierarchical, exploitative models of art spaces and artmaking and strives to honor and prioritize diversity in knowledge acquisition and technical methods. By showcasing work across bodies and paper, the exhibition affirms that artistry doesn't change based on its canvas. In presenting Nice Try's cooperative model alongside Harsh Collective's artist-first approach, Body of Work is less about curation and more about practicing what both spaces preach: community over gatekeeping, equity over extraction, and artists at the center.
In addition to the opening reception, gallery programming will be held throughout the duration of the exhibition at Baci Studio, including a color and sip night with a custom coloring sheet created by the artists on Saturday, March 7th, from 6:30–8:00 pm.