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Good Life Project

Chris “Daze” Ellis: From Street Artist to Museum Collections

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.53.4K 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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