PENNY BOY · GUEST SPOT · NASHVILLE TN
Nashville isn't just Music City anymore. The money that followed the studios and the wave of transplants building second lives here has created a new appetite for work that matches the ambition. When Penny Boy tours through Tennessee, he takes on a handful of full back pieces for the people ready to commit shoulder blade to waistline.
A closed selection of Penny’s award-winning full backs — see them all & in motion, or view the art gallery.
A full back is the one canvas that carries a whole story without compromise, and it deserves an artist who has spent a career on nothing else. Penny Boy has collected more than 100 awards, including Best in Show, working exclusively on large-scale back pieces in neo-traditional, black-and-grey and full color. Nashville's scene is expanding fast, and the collectors moving here know that the best destination artists get harder to book as a city fills up. Sitting for a back is a relationship measured in sessions, not hours, so the smart move is to start the conversation before the calendar closes.
Penny Boy travels to Tennessee for select guest spots and his tour often lines up with the energy around events like the Music City Tattoo Convention. He does not keep a permanent Nashville studio, and dates are limited, so the surest way to be seen while he is in town is to apply early through the back-piece application.
Every back is taken by application, not walk-in. You submit your concept and references through the /backs/ page, and if it is a fit, Penny Boy's team arranges your sessions for one of his Nashville guest-spot windows. Because he only works on backs, the schedule is deliberately small.
Yes. The full gallery of completed back pieces lives at /art/, spanning neo-traditional, black-and-grey and color. It is the clearest way to judge whether his style matches the piece you have been carrying in your head before you reach out.