Doze Green

Doze Green was born and raised in New York city. He is an original member of the infamous Rock Steady Crew, he is a pioneer of hip hop culture and a graff legend - the king of characters. he is a fusionist, a symbolist, a figurative painter and an artists artist. His work defies definition.
Doze Green is a humanist first and a artist second. as art critic Anjee Helstrup said. "his work is raw yet refined, emotive, highly symbolic and has a complexitiy that looks not only past the present state the world, but also alludes to a future that is guided through a convergence that is not limited by conventional religious forms" Although Doze uses esoteric symbols not easily interpreted to explore the human condition, his use of "street symbols" from his New York up bringing keep him connected to the underground culture and community he helped create.
over the years, Doze Green's paintings have progressed from the streets and into the gallerys. in the same spirit of graffiti they tell the stories of the oppessed which continue to be largely untold. His art career began an the walls and trains of New York in 1974. by the mid 80's he was exhibiting his work in art spaces such as the OK Harris Gallery, Tony Shafrazi Gallery and the Fun Gallery. Doze Green's work is in many public and private collections throughout the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia
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Doze Green is a legend in the graffiti word, and with good reason, his style is very much like some of the Emory Douglas illustrations for the black panthers with a touch of Basquait mixed in there as well, but thats what hip hop is built on, the reimagening and rearranging of what has gone before, in that sense it is the true post modern sub culture in the world today. In the history of hip hop Doze Green will go along side the likes of Kool Herc, Run DMC, Grand Wizard Theodore, Grandmaster flash, and Afrika Bambaataa.