Category: Press
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Beyond the Street
The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art Published by GestaltenEdited by: Patrick Nguyen, and Stuart MackenzieBerlin 2010 Dan Witz was Born in Chicago and Moved to New York City’s East Village in the late seventies, during the heyday of punk rock and graffiti scenes. He has been making unauthorised art on the street ever since.…
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VNA – 2010
In Plain View words by Jeroen Smeets2010 Having a published monograph of thirty years of your artwork makes you part of a select group of artists. Dan Witz is now part of that group. In Plain View shows Dan Witz’s career to be that of a traditional artist who looked for and found the right…
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Time Out New York – 2011
The New Street Art Class February 22, 2011 Full Interview Who he is: Having worked on the street since 1978, Witz’s style has evolved with police enforcement. “I used to paint tiny hummingbirds that took two hours to do, but the zero-tolerance graffiti policies of the ’90s forced me to adapt,” he says. “Now I…
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Idol Magazine – 2011
Spring/ Summer 2011Interview by Katre Laan Dan Witz is a US street artist that has recently been described as one of the greatest artists of his generation…not that he appears to be completely aware of it; he’s far too nice for that. One of the pioneers of street art, he has been doodling away since…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – January 2015
January 2015Interview by Evan Pricco One thing I liked in our conversation was you talking about Cooper Union in the late 1970s. You were a punk rock kid, and the punk rock thing to do at Cooper Union at that time was to paint figuratively. Please, tell me a little about art school at that…
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Art Tribune – November 8, 2019
Where does your pictorial work draw from? Where do you get the images that you paint, what do the portraits exhibited in Milan have in common, and in what period did you make them? I’m a slow painter. Each of the figure group paintings takes months to finish. And that’s not even counting the long…
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Playboy Italia – November 2019
Your compositional approach brings us back to Caravaggio where enlightened figures emerge from flat backgrounds. In an age in which we dare to experiment more techniques and supports why did you choose to express your art with such a classical current? After all the years that I’ve been painting, the simple fact that mere paint…