Paul Laster
TimeOut
20 February 2018
TimeOut
20 February 2018
Graffiti Legend Chris “Daze” Ellis has Traded Subway Cars for Canvas
Forty years ago, Daze helped to spark the worldwide street art movement; now, he's focusing on his latest gallery show
A pioneer of New York's graffiti scene during the chaotic years of the 1970s and '80s, Chris 'Daze' Ellis is one of the few artists who made the leap from the subways and streets to the international art world. Over the past four decades, he's exhibited his work at numerous galleries, both in New York and worldwide, while his paintings have been collected by such major art museums as MoMA. Even so, he's continued to create street art murals along with more traditional canvases like the ones making up his current show at P.P.O.W. Gallery in Chelsea.