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Pop Culture 2 20162017 NEW RELEASES DAZEWORLD: e Artwork of Chris Daze Ellis Chris Daze Ellis, Foreword by Sacha Jenkins • A New York graffiti writer’s illustrated journey from painting trains to exhibiting in international galleries • 250 unpublished photos of ‘70s and ‘80s graffiti and modern international murals and studio paintings • “His oeuvre evinces rigorous experimentation underwritten by an enduring interest in urbanity.” is is the illustrated story of New York artist Chris Daze Ellis’s successful transition from the subways to international studios and galleries. Follow his 30+ year career from his teen years as a gra ti writer to his current life as a professional painter, mentor, and family man. is book, with more than 250 photographs, is a journey that tracks seminal moments in Daze’s life that shaped his art. View his aesthetic evolution, from “Gra ti High” (New York’s High School of Art and Design) and an “unsanctioned” street art phase to exhibitions with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Train photos from the 1970s and 80s, a broad representation of Daze’s studio and mural works, and personal photos guide the reader through an artistic portfolio spanning ve decades. Contributions by gra ti writer Jay “J.SON” Edlin and essayistClaire Schwartz, and a foreword by gra ti historian and chronicler Sacha Jenkins complete this volume. began painting the gri y New York Subways in the mid-1970s while a ending the High School of Art & Design. His work can currently be found in galleries and museums worldwide. Size: 8 1/2 " x 11 " • 269 color images • 176 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5105-1 • hard cover • $34.99 AVAILABLE NOW UPTOWN & DOWNTOWN: Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps Alan Bortman • Subway map graffiti art by the most influential artists of the movement in its prime • 16 artists’ work, including images from more than 100 maps • A medium that started small in the ’80s and is now growing worldwide New York gra ti writers who cut their teeth painting trains in the 70s and 80s transfer Old Skool street art to amore permanent, collectiblemedium in this book, using transit maps, instead of subway cars, as canvases. GHOST, T-KID, QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, SHAME125, COPE2, SKEME, and others decorated ordinary 23 “ × 32 “ MTAmaps with their personal tags and graphics echoing the heyday of New York train gra ti. Sixteen sections, one for each writer, feature a total of more than100 maps, as well as brief statements about the painters’ artistic evolution and style. Like a dynamic “piece book,” or sketchbook, this collection is an exclusive sampling of the painters’ signature strokes and tags in portable form. In fact, many of the artists featured here have used subway-map art as a springboard from the eeting genre of train-tagging to the sturdier platform of the international art gallery circuit. lives in the greater Boston area. He is the curator of DirtyPilot.com, an urban art and gra ti art store featuring well-known and underground artists. Size: 9 " x 12 " • 105 color photos • 128 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5097-9 • hard cover • $34.99 AVAILABLE NOW