About LoveJoy Market
one artist, several ideas, and no ability to leave a good one alone.
It started with tattooing. Then came the walls, the events, the market, and somehow this whole little world.
I’m Jessie. I tattoo, paint, draw, print, build things, and occasionally turn one idea into five more because apparently that is my process.
Art came first. Tattooing gave all of it somewhere to land. The drawing matters, obviously, but so does the way it fits your body and whether you feel comfortable enough to tell me when something is not right.
I like black and gray, bold contrast, clean shapes, open skin, and work that still reads from across the room. I also like clients with an actual point of view. Convenient.
Over the last few years, I built the kind of tattoo practice I wanted to walk into: personal, relaxed, honest, and serious about the work without acting painfully serious about itself.
LoveJoy Market happened because I got tired of pretending every part of my creative life needed its own little box.
I wanted the tattoo studio, art on the walls, people selling what they made, music, classes, and the conversation after everybody was technically supposed to leave in the same place.
“Market” means more than shopping here. You might come for a tattoo and leave with a print, a new artist to follow, or plans for next weekend. That is the good part.
The Fishers space lets me do it for real. It is a tattoo studio first, with room for art, pop-ups, classes, movie nights, guest artists, and any other idea good enough to earn a yes.
I was already painting, drawing, and designing, with absolutely no respect for the line between “art practice” and “new project.”
Tattooing took over. The work got bolder, cleaner, and much more recognizably mine.
Then came markets, parties, music, print projects, and proof that people really do want places that feel like somebody cared.
Now the Fishers studio gives all of it one address. Much easier than asking five versions of me where they put something.
I am not trying to turn LoveJoy into some polished, faceless creative empire. If it ever stops feeling like a person made it, I did something wrong.
I want to make strong tattoos, show good art, give artists fair opportunities, and throw events worth leaving the house for. I also want enough room to follow a weird idea before it has a business plan.
The point is not to do everything. It is to let the right things live together without sanding off the personality.
if you read all of that, you are legally part of the lore now.