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Mary Joy Scott is an American tattoo artist and painter based in San Francisco, consistently identified as the last apprentice Don Ed Hardy took in the trade. She studied art, including study in Italy, and was active in the city's art and punk scene before learning to tattoo in North Beach at Hardy's Tattoo City around 2007, and she remained a long-running resident on the Tattoo City Lombard Street roster. She works in a traditional register deeply informed by classical and Renaissance painting and printmaking, with recurring subjects of ravens, women's faces, and occult and mythological figures. She was profiled in VICE's Tattoo Age series in 2018 in an episode titled "The Traditional Tattoo Goth," and in 2020 she opened her own studio, Raven Eye Tattoo, in the inner Richmond district off Clement Street.
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