By JRS
Graffiti artist-turned gallery sensation Eric Haze is ready for his fans again. The native New Yorker opened to a packed house Thursday night as his first US show in three years, “New Abstracts and Icons,” received praise.
Amid the chaos, SPREAD ArtCulture had a chance to talk with the artist.
SPREAD ArtCulture: Tell us about your show.
Eric Haze: This is my new show, “New Abstracts and Icons,” representing a solid three year’s worth of work in a few new directions I’ve been trying to take my personal work.
SAC: Have you mainly been working in New York for the duration?
EH: Yes, it’s part in parcel of re-experiencing New York after I’ve come back. I got in touch with my roots and a lot of my old peers. This show, on a lot of levels, represents a full circle back to the art world that I came out of in the 80s.
SAC: What influences, if any, did you draw on for this show?
EH: If I have any answer for that, part of it is listening to an innocence in mathematics that came through and some of it is about translating what I’ve always been as a designer into new mediums and back on a different playing field. Ultimately, if I was influenced by anything, it’s the modernists of the 50s and 60s and big, bald, minimal American painting.
