Chris “Daze” Ellis: From Street Artist to Museum Collections
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest, Chris Daze Ellis, is a born-and-bred New York artist with a fascinating origin story. Although he began his prolific painting career in the gritty New York subways of the mid-70s, Daze is one of the few artists from that initial group to have successfully transitioned from the underground to the studio, then the galleries and […] The post Chris “Daze” Ellis: From Street Artist to Museum Collections appeared first on Good LifeProject.
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| 0:00.0 | What you do, it has a life of its own. |
| 0:04.8 | I mean, even to this day, I make paintings in my studio. |
| 0:08.6 | I look at exhibit it. |
| 0:10.4 | But at a certain point, if you sell that painting, |
| 0:13.5 | it has a life of its own. |
| 0:18.1 | So a few weeks back, I found myself wandering through |
| 0:20.9 | the halls of a museum in New York City, |
| 0:23.7 | the attache of the Museum of the City of New York. |
| 0:26.5 | And I went into this gallery, |
| 0:28.8 | and it was featuring a guy named Chris Ellis, |
| 0:31.8 | also known as Days. |
| 0:33.5 | Days was the name that he gave himself back in the 70s |
| 0:37.3 | when he was actually out there, |
| 0:39.2 | like many of the crew's painting graffiti on Subways. |
| 0:43.0 | And that kind of followed him. |
| 0:44.2 | And he's, produces incredible, incredible work. |
| 0:48.0 | And he's also one of the few breakout stories |
| 0:51.0 | from sort of like that original crew of graffiti artists |
| 0:53.9 | and street artists, people who wrote on trains, |
| 0:57.1 | who made the transition to becoming a studio artist |
| 0:59.9 | and an incredible painter. |
| 1:01.6 | And he not only produces his own work now, |
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