Matt McCormick Catalogs His Tattoo Practice in 'Head to the Country'

Matt McCormick has released the first book documenting his lesser-known tattoo practice between the years 2009 and 2017. Dubbed Head To The Country, the weighty volume spans 396 pages of sketches and finished tattoos primarily made in his studio and on his travels. According to curator Todd Von Ammon, "McCormick's work as a painter concerns itself with a distinct frame of time: the out-of-joint phantasm of the American experience. This snuffed-out folk-spirit lives on primarily in the death-cycl...