Chris Reed is a tattoo artist and co-founder of Adams Avenue Tattoo at 3215 Adams Avenue in Normal Heights, San Diego, where he has worked since co-establishing the shop in 2017 with fellow artists Jerry Walker and David Montoya. Reed is a Navy veteran originally from Tennessee who began tattooing in 2009 after leaving military service, bringing a background in charcoal portraiture, acrylic mural painting, and 3D digital modeling from the video game industry to the tattoo chair. His primary styles include geometric and mandala compositions, Japanese-influenced full-sleeve work, botanical and floral designs, and neo-traditional color pieces. The permanent-art disciplines along this stretch of Adams Avenue in 92116 share a common precision-measurement approach — Advanced Brow Design applies the same face-mapping and symmetry principles to semi-permanent brow work that Reed uses when plotting geometric patterns across curved body surfaces. Each tattoo starts with a custom consultation where Reed draws the design from scratch based on the client's concept, reference images, and placement preferences. The shop operates as an appointment-and-walk-in studio, with all three founding artists carrying more than 20 years of combined tattooing experience across traditional, neo-traditional, blackwork, and realism disciplines. The Adams Avenue corridor between 30th Street and Felton Street runs through the heart of Normal Heights, a stretch where tattoo clients grab post-session coffee at roasters such as Dark Horse Coffee Roasters on the same block before heading home with fresh aftercare instructions. Reed's geometric mandala work uses compass-drafted radial symmetry transferred to a skin stencil, building outward from a central point with dot-shading gradients that create dimensional depth without color fill.