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Mosh pit paintings by Dan Witz

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Mosh pit paintings by Dan Witz

Brooklyn painter, street artist, and musician Dan Witz has a solo show opening at NYC’s Jonathan LeVine Gallery on June 30. The series of large-scale hyper-realistic figurative paintings is t…

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Applying old master techniques, (Witz) achieves impressively convincing trompe l’oeil illusions of light, shadow and depth in his finely rendered portraits, landscapes and still lifes. The artist recently added digital media tools to his process (having previously used traditional projection methods). Combining old master techniques and digital technology, he photographs his subjects, composes in photoshop, prints an a-chromatic underpainting on canvas then glazes and scumbles over this foundation using traditional representational painting…

Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From Dan Witz - "In Plain View"

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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SuperTouch - DAN WITZ’S “KILROY VARIATIONS”

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

One of Supertouch’s favorite promising Brooklyn-based artists is DAN WITZ, a classical painter who straddles the very disparate worlds of “fine” and “Street Art” with incredibly unique and separate bodies of work.

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Dan Witz' Mosh Pit Series

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Wooster Collective:

Dan Witz has been working on a new series of figurative paintings for two upcoming shows in Europe; one in London at the Stolenspace, and the second in Paris at Addict Galerie.

If you check out Dan’s website, you’ll notice that he’s quietly previewing a few of the pieces.

Here.

Dan Witz's The Third Man

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Wooster Collective:

For the second year in a row, Dan Witz has an annual New Year’s prank. Over the last few days he’s installed a series of real gloves around his neighborhood in Brooklyn. He’s calling the project “The Third Man” (after the movie).

Here.