PENNY BOY · GUEST SPOT · SCOTTSDALE AZ
Few American cities collect art the way Scottsdale does — a walkable Arts District, a weekly Thursday ArtWalk, and the tented Celebration of Fine Art that runs all winter long. Penny Boy's award-winning full backs belong in that conversation: large-scale neo-traditional, black-and-grey and color work for collectors who already live surrounded by fine art. When he tours through the Valley in the snowbird season, he takes only a handful of backs by application.
A closed selection of Penny’s award-winning full backs — see them all & in motion, or view the art gallery.
Scottsdale rewards craft — its galleries and collectors can tell a commissioned piece from a copy. A full back is the largest, most demanding commission the body offers, and Penny Boy (Massimiliano Pennella) tattoos nothing else. With 100+ international awards and Best in Show behind him, he routes a guest-spot window through the Valley in the winter art season and takes a few full backs by application. No fixed Scottsdale studio — one collector at a time, built to last decades.
He isn't an exhibitor there, and he has no fixed studio in Arizona. But during the winter art season, when the Celebration of Fine Art and the weekly ArtWalk fill the Scottsdale Arts District, he sometimes routes a guest-spot window through the Valley and takes a few full backs by application.
There is no price list. A full back is a large, multi-session commission, and every quote is custom — issued only after your application is reviewed and approved.
Yes. The back is the largest, most demanding canvas on the body — full and half backs only, on guest-spot windows in Scottsdale, across the USA and in Europe.