Russ Foxx
russfoxx@uscobm.com
I am an artist of multiple areas of body art, modification and ritual experience. My arts include body piercing (freehand & conventional), adult piercing, surface piercing (punch & taper), pocketing (microdermal anchors & staples), large-gauge punches, scarification, body suspensions and pulls, subdermal implants, splits, ear sculpting (pointing, lobe scalpelling and corrections), etc. I also have a love for custom-shaped industrials and any type of ear projects.
I am a progressive artist and uphold that safety is paramount in the body art industry. I have been working in this industry since 2000 and completed a training seminar with the Association of Professional Piercers in 2003. I owned and operated my own tattooing & piercing studio in Alliston, Ontario for about 5 years before moving to the beautiful province of British Columbia. I am currently working toward a degree in medicine.
Body suspension plays a major role in my life and also who I am today. I have personally experienced over 30 suspensions of different types with varying amounts and sizes of hooks; including vertical, horizontal and modified suspensions. I frequently host public and private “SusCons” (Body Suspension conventions and seminars) indoors and outdoors in the lower mainland. I am a founding member of “Modern Body Suspension”, a Vancouver-based body suspension team. Some of my hobbies include sideshow and performance art as well as being a musician and adrenaline junky.
I am an initiate board member of the Church Of Body Modification (http://uscobm.com/)
I am a staff/panel member at www.askbme.com where I answer body art-related questions for the public. This can be found here: http://www.askbme.com/
I write for Abort Magazine where I write for a column called “The Cutting Edge” (http://www.abortmag.com/)
My studio is located at The Fall Tattooing & Artists Gallery at 644 Seymour Street in downtown Vancouver, BC. I’m available for work there 7 days a week. (http://www.thefalltattooing.com)