Guest Artist Interviews
Listen to interviews with internationally renowned and distinguished artists and musicians while viewing photos of Guest Artists and seeing their work. Stay tuned as new videos continue to be added.
Chris Daze Ellis is a New York-based artist and one of the pioneers of NYC's graffiti art movement. Daze began as a graffiti artist in the 1970s creating work on subway cars in NYC and has gone on to exhibit at renowned galleries and museums internationally, including the Sidney Janis Gallery and PPOW Gallery (New York), Palais du Lichtenstein (Austria), Musee d’art Moderne (France), Galleria del Palazzo (Italy), and Fortune Cookie Projects (Singapore). His work is included in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of the City of New York, and many others. In addition to these exhibits, Daze has completed many public art projects and worked in collaboration with students in cities all over the world.
Christy Powers is a New York-based artist whose paintings have been exhibited internationally. Powers creates work that addresses the way we use photography and social media to construct our memories, starting each painting from a photograph. The resulting artworks are glimpses into the lives of others, sparking viewers' personal associations related to their own lives.