JK5

Joseph Ari Aloi, a.k.a. JK5, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he relentlessly develops his visual, textual, and iconographic languages through a diverse range of media. JK5 is a highly respected custom tattoo artist and has been so for the last 12 years.

In 1999 Aloi published a 432 page, hard-bound "chronologically becoming" book of his work entitled "Subconsciothesaurusnex" and was a heat seeker for all of the exposure, relationships, and projects to come. The MISHKA x JK5 collaboration is essentially that book in clothing form. Mikhail, Greg, and Joseph, took his book physically apart over a period of 3 days. They then created a low-fi, manual collage that would become the pattern for a hoodie and a pair of shorts. The rest of the collection features concepts, patterns, and content from newer paintings and drawings, and the New Era fitted cap was designed from scratch. This is the first time that his book, SUBCON, has been celebrated, and translated into the form of fashion.

He is currently working on new work for shows, more toys and book projects, his own clothing collections for kids and adults alike, animation and film projects, more collaborative and project based work, and tattooing Tuesday through Friday at Saved Tattoo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

www.jk5nyc.com