Sunday 3 July 2011

Dan Witz Mosh Pits and Cell-Lit Portraits at Jonathan Levine

Brooklyn-based artist Dan Witz’s new show opened last night, so you can go and get a close up gander at those hyperreal paintings of mosh pits, yuppie swarms and rat herds. Also on view: new trompe l’oeil portraits of friends – gagged, masked and cellphone screen illuminated chiaroscuro-style.

If you were curious how he gets it so real, he’s cheating. Just kidding — it’s a painstaking mixture of traditional and contemporary artistic methods:

Combining old master techniques and digital technology, he photographs his subjects, composes in photoshop, prints an a-chromatic underpainting on canvas then glazes and scumbles over this foundation using traditional representational painting.

“Mosh Pits, Human and Otherwise,” Dan Witz, Jun 30 – Jul 30, Jonathan Levine Gallery, NYC


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