Dan witz biography
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Artist Feature: Dan Witz
"...the smell of leather jackets, sweat, and clove cigarettes."
Moshing, slam dancing, thrashing, skanking. A sweaty hot mess, swaying and pushing into the humid crowd, fostering unrestricted self-expression and interaction with a loud pounding soundscape. The pit, the bedroom of hardcore music.
I remember my first pit experience; 1991 Detroit, Gangster Fun opening for Fugazi, absolutely the most liberating experience of my 14-year-old self. I remember what I wore, the smell of leather jackets, sweat, and clove cigarettes. The beginning of what would become decades of dance halls and underground clubs, Nat Shermans, red lipstick, Doc Martins, and slam dancing! The art of the pit boils down to the boundaries that you define at any given moment. This is beautiful to me. The crowd shifts and swirls in front of a stage, the point of impact, forceful but friendly, an exhilarating release of aggression, a release of passion, an enigmatic grace.
The work of Dan Witz embodies the energy and pulse of the hardcore music scene. Unimpressed by what he was seeing in the late 70s/early 80s NY gallery art scene, he utilized his formal academic training and applied it to the street art scene, soon becoming a pioneer. Street ar
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Dan Witz
Dan Witz
Dan Witz
- October 19, 1957; City, Illinois, Coalesced States
- American
- Street art,Contemporary,Photorealism (Super-Realism, Hyper-Realism)
- portrait
- painting,printmaking,drawing
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Biography
Born in Chicago in 1957, realist painter Dan Witz can be considered a heavyweight and one of the pioneers of the street art movement. Living and working in New York, since 1978 he’s gone on to develop a career in both street art and gallery painting. Apart from his street art he is internationally recognized for his ultra realistic series of paintings called ‘Mosh Pit’, showing people in war-like motion. Dan Witz’s work can be found on his collaboration with URBAN NATION on Project M/6 in 2014.
Among Witz’s most renown artworks are his small trompe-l’oeil works such as his 75 pieces strong silkscreen series called Hoodies. These wheat pasted artworks came to live during the summer of 1994 and popped up all over New Yorks Lower East Side neighbourhood. The faceless figures were an analogy to dismal times of crime and drugs that were haunting the area at the time. Having perfected his painting techniques, Witz, who attended Rode Island School of Design and holds a degree from Cooper Union, often uses light and shadow in his works to create atmospheric sceneries, as he did for the series Nightscapes.
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