Contact / About
Tattooing
There are three ways to get a tattoo with me:
Book at custom flower or flash piece at Co:Create Ink
Sign up for my email list. Receive exclusive newsletter and occasional availability. (Subscribe form is on the home page)
Post mastectomy tattoos: more info here.
Speaking
David Allen: The Healing Power of Tattoos - TEDx Talk
For more info on my public speaking, click over here.
External
Artist's mastectomy tattoos reveal the beauty of survival - Chicago Tribune
Chicago mastectomy tattoo artist expands work, is featured in film - CT
How Tattoos Are Transforming Mastectomy Scars - US News & World Report
Tattooists Help Breast Cancer Survivors - Newsweek
'Reclaiming Their Beauty' - NPR, WBUR
Press
Exhibits
Photos and stories have been included in the following exhibits:
2021 Beauty, Fondation d’entreprise Martell / Cognac, France
2020 Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
2019 Beauty, MAK Austrian Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna
2018 David Allen: Mastectomy Tattoos and Post-Surgery Healing, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago (local link to view exhibit)
2018 Items: Is Fashion Modern?, MoMA, NYC
Video (short)
Grace - A Breast Cancer Survivor's Fight to Love Her New Body
My Tattoo, My Story - GHD Campaign
Publication
Moving the Needle on Recovery From Breast Cancer - The Healing Role of Postmastectomy Tattoos - JAMA