JETSETER
DAZE
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http://www.dazeworld.com/
The graffiti artist Daze (aka Chris Ellis) was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1962. He attended the
High School of Art & Design in New York. But, according to Daze himself, he received his real
education in the New York subways, « where I majored in exterior graphic design. »
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Daze belonged to a group of New York graffiti artists who came together in the South Bronx in the
1970s. Daze's tags and pieces appeared on subway trains in Brooklyn and the Bronx in the late
1970s. While the letters at first marked the territory of street gangs, they began to create a style.
Since the beginning of the 1980s Daze's works are presented at international exhibitions, for
example in Tokyo (1983), in the New York Museum of American Graffiti (1989), in Switzerland
(Gallerie Four, 1998), in the Museum of Modern Art in Nice (1999), and in Paris (2004). Daze
comments on the newer developments in grafitti art: «In the early eighties lots of people were
showing graffiti. Now in New York no one is, so a lot of older guys have gone on to commercial
stuff like clothing and album covers. Europe has always been more supportive of the movement. »>
Daze lives and works in New York.

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