DOZE

Doze Green is a graffiti writer, fine artist, and iconic hip-hop dancer. A member of the legendary Rock Steady Crew—a group that pioneered breakdancing in the 1970s—the subway-tagging graffiti artist often participated in breakdance performances at SoHo and Lower East Side galleries. He correlates the geometries and motion between dance, graffiti, and art to each other, evident through the fluidity of his lines and the shapes of his figures. Moving from walls to canvas, Doze Green’s paintings are influenced by the art of the Edo Period in Japan, Cubism, and graffiti-style letterforms.

Doze Green envisions the letters as “biological entities, a swarm of arrows coming in from infinite perspective”, where ancient symbolism meets futurism. He explores metaphysical and cosmological questions about the nature of narrative, the physics of time, and the possibility of immortality.

Doze Green’s work has been shown at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, the Laguna Art Museum, and the Jonathan Levine Gallery. His pieces are in many public and private collections and have been published in BlackBook, Anthem, Juxtapoz, Tokion, Vibe, and reviewed on CNN.

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