Category: Press
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Excerpt from an interview with Dan Witz by Marc and Sara Schiller of The Wooster Collective, August 2007
This excerpt from an interview with Dan Witz by Marc and Sara Schiller of The Wooster Collective took place in August of 2007. The full text will be included in Dan Witz. In Plain View. 30 years of artworks illegal and otherwise. To be published by Gingko Press in the Fall of 08. With an…
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TORO
by Louise Bak OCTOBER 23, 2008 Dan Witz is an active mixed-media artist with a longstanding love affair with the spaces of New York and its illuminated nightscapes. He’s developed a store of sexual figurative painting that also shine with light. In his most recent painting series, Witz’s figures are transfixed by the beams of…
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Doski (Russian Skater) Magazine 10/08
1. How did you come about using photography in your street and gallery art? Why did you paint over it and what is the technique? Are you enjoying photography as it is? I’ve always told myself that if it was possible that the real object or experience would express what I wanted to say, then…
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Juxtapoz
with Louis Gropman January 2009 You have a new book coming out this spring-In Plain View- spanning thirty years of your artwork, “illegal and otherwise”. Tell us about the title. I like the title because it sounds like a real Barnes and Noble type book, very professional; and since most people haven’t heard of me,…
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Overspray Magazine
by Ali Gitlow April 2009 Brooklyn-based artist Dan Witz has been contributing his unique brand of witty realism to NYC’s street art scene since before an easily identifiable ‘scene’ existed. Through his in-depth serial projects, Witz has made poignant commentary on the crumbling Lower East Side of the early ‘90s, September 11th, the gentrification of…
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Brooklyn Street Art
Dan Witz is Doing Dark Things in West Hollywood November 4, 2009 You’ve walked by his work a hundred times on the street in plain view. No really, you probably have, and didn’t know it. Dan Witz specializes in detailed work that when fully realized, can be be easy to miss. A Chicago native, Witz…
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BOMBIN’ Magazine
Interview with Craig Dershowitz Throughout your history, you have demonstrated a recognition and appreciation for graffiti. In fact, you often refer to your hummingbirds as your tag. So, we will start this interview off with a real softball question – Care to try and define the difference between “street art” and “graffiti?” Definitely not. That’s…
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Street Art Cookbook
Ignore the Experts Benke Carlson2010 Dan Witz is one of the true pioneers and figureheads of street art. Inspired by subway graffiti, his love of the punk aesthetic and the irrelevance of the established art world, he began painting in the 1970s. Since then, Witz has repeatedly managed to surprise, challenge and provoke New Yorkers…
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Vandalog
Q&A with Dan Witz June 22, 2010Author: RJ Dan Witz is one of street art’s legends. For more than 30 years, Dan has continued to develop and innovate indoors and outdoors, always staying fresh and above art-world trends. He’s one of the artists that inspired countless others to start painting outside. People, street art obsessed…
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The New Order – Dan Witz
Tell me a bit about yourself. You were born in Chicago but have spent the majority of your career living in New York. Why did you make the move? Do you see yourself ever leaving New York? If so, where would it be to? After growing up in a nice safe suburb of Chicago, I…