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Category: Press
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San Francisco Guardian Online
Dan Witz gifts SF his finest S&M grates By Caitlin Donohue01.11.11 – 2:37 pm Given that he’s best known for his series of tiny, jewel-like airbrushed hummingbirds, it may strike his hordes of ardent fans as dissonant that street artist Dan Witz’s latest offerings are so, well, fucked up. His current show at White Walls…
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Public Art Review
VOL. 22 NO. 2 • ISSUE 44 | BOOK REVIEWS IN PLAIN VIEW: 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise Dan WitzBerkeley: Gingko Press, 2010222 pages, $39.95 (hardcover) Review by: Joseph Hart When Dan Witz was obtaining his art education at prestigiousCooper Union in the late 1970s, realist painting was like theproverbial fart at a…
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ARTnews
Man on the Street by Kyle ChaykaJune 2011 In the late 1970s, while wandering the streets of downtown Manhattan, it was possible to find precious images of hovering hummingbirds, anatomically correct but in colors ranging from tropical to autumnal, painted directly onto banged-up walls. These tiny figures— were the work of Dan Witz, an artist…
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Green Apple Books
Dan Witz: In Plain View: 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise December 2011 The gamut of Dan Witz’s output over the past thirty years is truly amazing. Containing the raw power and range of the work in a book is a nearly impossible task as the artist’s work rails against constraints conceptual or practical.…
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Wooster Collective – 2003
5 Tips March, 2003 Luckily I’ve never been arrested. I’ve had many run-ins with the cops but they’ve always let me go. More than once they’ve even let me finish my piece. Some things I’ve learned: Be honest. Cops hate getting hustled. And never be angry or defensive—or unctuous. Having a pretty girl along also…
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Bozak Nation – 2003
Interview by Brian KatzFrom Bozack Nation Issue #002. April, 2003 —What made you take your art to the streets in the first place? (what year, etc.) Is this while you were at Cooper Union? Okay, The story goes…I started making street art back in the late 70’s at Cooper Union. I’d recently arrived in NYC…
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Wooster Collection – 2004
“My Summer Vacation” October 2, 2004 Dan Witz is one of the main inspirations behind the Wooster Collective website. It was in the days immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, that we first came across Dan’s painted shrines that he placed at the bottom of a group of lampposts in our neighborhood (the…
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The Morning News – 2005
Roundtable: Street Art The following is an excerpt from a roundtable discussion on street art published in the online journal, The Morning News. The other artists were: Swoon, Michael DeFeo, Patrick of Faile, and The Wooster Collective. The interviewer was Pitchaya Sudanthbad. In the interest of brevity I’ve included just my answers to the questions.…
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The Morning News
“Lights in the Dark” by Nicole PasulkaOctober 31, 2006 Why have you painted all these lights in the dark? I look at the world and I see a million things I want to paint every day but I keep coming back to light as a subject. I don’t know exactly why. It would probably be…