A declaration of his unconditional love for his native New York, Daze presents "Portals", a sincere and mature exhibition after a long absence in Paris. Her canvases, subtly blending a multitude of techniques, immortalize hours of solitary wanderings and the melancholy of this ever-changing city.
A key figure in the New York graffiti scene of the 70s-80s, and a free electron among the pioneering generation, Chris Ellis, better known as Daze, was quick to sign his name in all its forms. After graduating from Art Design High School in 1976, Daze took up the challenge of making an artistic transition from the subway cars to the quiet of the studio. A successful gamble, Daze won international recognition not only from his peers, but also from the prestigious collections of MoMA in New York and the Groningen Museum in the Netherlands. For Daze paints as he thinks: with great sensitivity, he develops an intuitive aesthetic, nourished by the urban tumult and the energy that emanates from it. No wonder, then, that Baz Luhrmann chose him to consult with Crash on the TV series "The Get Down", a one-season tribute to the genesis of the hip-hop movement in the USA.
A declaration of his unconditional love for his native New York, Daze presents "Portals", a sincere and mature exhibition after a long absence in Paris. Her canvases, subtly blending a multitude of techniques, immortalize hours of solitary wanderings and the melancholy of this ever-changing city. Like a collection of memories, Daze exposes the ambivalence of his feelings and his own place in the midst of these buildings. With gentleness and poetry, he reconciles classical painting and graffiti culture, the human figure and grandiose urbanism, calligraphy and abstraction.
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