AN EXHIBITION OF GRAFFITI ART BY DAZE / AN EXHIBITION OF GRAFFITI ART BY CRASH
Scarce catalogue of this early joint exhibition by graffiti artists Crash and Daze at the Sidney Janis gallery in New York.
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Price: $850.00
Scarce catalogue of this early joint exhibition by graffiti artists Crash and Daze at the Sidney Janis gallery in New York.
Very good plus.
Price: $850.00
"The art-star thing, it wasn't all it was meant to be. We struggled." — CRASH, Gastman interview
Artists and frequent co-exhibitors Daze and Crash were both born in New York City in the early 1960s, and both began building a style and a reputation in their teens in the late '70s, first meeting in 1977. In October 1980, Crash curated the first major graffiti show, Graffiti Art Success for America, at Fashion Moda in the South Bronx; Daze was first featured in a gallery space in 1981 in the Beyond Words exhibition, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Crash's own portraits of Basquiat and Haring are among the nine pieces illustrated in this catalogue, selected from the 18 and 19 works in each artist's exhibition checklist.
Read more: Carrizzo, "Christopher 'Daze' Ellis and the Evolution of Graffiti, Gallery & Studio; Gastman, "CRASH & DAZE: Est. 1977," Beyond the Streets.
First edition. (New York): (Sidney Janis), (1984). 11'' x 8.5''. Original saddle-stapled black and white wrappers. 9 black and white plates. [8] pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers.
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