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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Wednesday May 9, 2012

Complex asked me to write a very brief piece that afternoon, which they posted here along with a host of other memorials.

It is hard to sum up the meaning of anyone’s life or work in a few brief paragraphs,
especially someone as truly diverse as Adam was on many levels.
I have so many memories of experiences together with Adam and the Beasties over the years,
from early NY Def Jam days in the ‘80s, our California days in both the ‘80s and ‘90s,
all the way through everyone’s return home to NY decades later.
I also have extensive archives of all the work we did together, both published and unpublished,
which I hope to organize and expand on at much greater length in the future…

But for now, I would just like to say Adam was not only a brilliant artist, but a deep and soulful person through and through.
His loss will continue to reverberate throughout our communities for some time,
and my sincerest condolences and best wishes to his Wife, Daughter and family, as well as to Mike and Adam.

His premature passing may be yet another testamant to the fleeting and fragile quality of life,
but it is also proof positive that one man, along with a few close friends, can radically impact the complexion of his generation,
leaving behind a profound body of work that will be perpetually upheld and appreciated in light of a history that will outlive us all.

Adam Yauch aka MCA aka Nathanial Hornblower…gone but never forgotten…Rest In Peace, Brother.

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Monday May 7, 2012

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Monday April 30, 2012

I have always considered legacy and what we leave behind as a big part of any artists life mission,
and there is something special about a piece that is guaranteed to be a part of someone else’s life long after one’s own journey.
I especially cherish the works I have by friends who have passed,
and it’s a great notion to think of your father collecting art for you before you are even old enough to be conscious of it.

I had fun doing this piece, as well as the studies for it that are part of the collection of work I included with it…
and I look forward to seeing Ellington grow up into the creative culture that his mom and pops also play a vibrant part in :

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Thursday April 26, 2012

The artwork can been previewed and bid on at paddle8.com starting @ 7:00 pm,
the live auction starts on location at the Eyebeam @ 8:30 pm,
and more information can be found on the freeartsnyc.org website.

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Monday April 23, 2012

The show is an evolution of an idea he had to represent the downtown NY art scene from the early 80s to present,
which is summed up in the following press release by Carlo McCormick :

“Nosebleed takes its name from the prevailing motto of that sensibility, that we wouldn’t go up there (up
being anything north of 14th Street ) because we’d get a nosebleed. It is redolent of all the provincialism that
makes New York City so myopically special, where neighborhoods do matter and where the global view remains
much the same as Saul Steinberg’s classic New Yorker magazine cover, View from 9th Avenue, where the details
of the city end at the Hudson River as the west gapes beyond like an insignificant wasteland. Make that drawing
looking up from Fuse and you’ll see a similar void outside the center of our universe. Downtown may have been
colonized by money and gentrified into something way white and polite, but the attitude persists. These are the
artists of that particular place of mind.”

I have contributed the early magic marker drawing above from 1981 ( when I was living on Avenue A )
and peep the Fuse website here for a full list of participants and more info :

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Tuesday March 27, 2012

At the time, it was part of something I had been planning to compile and write for ages,
which finally seemed appropriate for not only the anniversary which it signified,
but also in regard to some of my own perspectives having recently moved back to New York over a decade later after Keith’s passing.

It was also one of the first major blog pieces I ever wrote on the now long defunkt riottt.com,
which I have been meaning to repost again on 12oz at the right time since it disappeared from cyberspace in 2009.
I almost reposted it again last year around the “Art in The Streets” show, as it seemed even more relavent that ever then too,
but there was already enough media buzz surrounding that show that it seemed a waste to just throw it back against the wall for that reason.

When I saw the opening photo above for the first time last year I knew that was my visual cue for the reposting,
and now, with an exhibition of Kieith’s work from 1978 - 1982 opening at none other than the Brooklyn Museum this month,
hopefully this piece, like Keith’s work itself, will continue to be appreciated in the light of history.

Here is the original 50th birthday anniversary piece,
reposted again in what now also happens to be my 50th year, unedited and untouched from back in March 2008 :

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Last Sunday, May 4th, was the 50th anniversary of Keith Haring’s Birthday.

There have been a number of celebrations of his life and work around NY this month,
including a new documentary about his life, the recreation of his historical mural on Houston St.,
a revival of his “party of life” sunday night, and the launch of a new foundation to support the arts
as a collaboration between the Keith Haring Foundation and the (new) New Museum on Bowery.

I also wanted to take this occasion to celebrate his life and work here now;
I have long been meaning to roll up my sleeves and put together a piece about Keith’s continued significance in the modern landscape,
as well as showcase some of the works and artifacts he blessed me with over the years of our friendship.
His birthday presented the perfect time and place to put it into context now, so here goes:

I first met Keith at the monday night meetings and workshops that our crew -
The Soul Artists - held every week at our manhattan storefront in 1980.
The meetings had quickly become notorious throughout the NYC graffiti and alternative art communities,
where what was originally a small group of us from the upper west side that included Ali, Futura, Zephyr, Crunch and myself,
was soon attracting the likes of Keith, Lee, Fab Five Freddy, Jean Michael Basquiat, Dondi, Blade
and countless other artists who would prove influential in reshaping the art world of the times…
not to mention the many journalists and curators like Richard Goldstein, Diego Cortez, and Patti Astor,
who would also play pivotal roles in the movement gaining exposure and coming of age on many levels.

At that time, Keith was still working as a busboy at the night club Danceteria,
while preparing his first major drawing show at White Columns Gallery,
and was just starting to get serious local recognition from his saturation of remarkable chalk drawings on the NY subway stations.

Amidst a group of mainly hard core and competitive graffiti artists,
Keith’s openness and generosity stood out from the start, inviting us all downtown to his upcoming shows,
and also encouraging us to check out Club 57 and the Mudd Club Gallery on White street…
( where Fab 5 and Futura then went on to curate another seminal art show called “Beyond Words” )
Keith quickly proved to be the embodiment of the out of towner who brings something new to the table here in NY;
with a fresh eye and perspective, combined with an innate ability to understand the bigger picture,
he was one of the few outsiders of that era who was clearly influenced by the style and spirit of subway graffiti,
without ever confusing his relationship to or co-opting it into anything less than his own natural progression.
Where Kieth brought a new academic kind of approach to the immediacy he found here on the streets of New York,
I believe we all learned and benefited from some of the conceptual maturity he brought into our community too.
Through Keith, we also met the curator Diego Cortez, who invited us to be in our first major gallery show at P.S.1 called “New York, New Wave”,
where Dondi, Futura, Lee, Pink, Ali, Zephyr, Fab 5 Freddy and I first all showed our paintings alongside the likes of
Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith, Jean Micheal, and a host of other emerging names in the New York art world.

So in my mind - though there were certainly a number of other key players -
Keith was one if the first and most important links for graffiti to the art world below 14th St,
and though he never considered himself a graffiti artist in the traditional sense,
he came to embody the bridge between creating illegal artwork while embracing the fine art world,
effectively balancing graf’s original ethos of free public minded art while still creating
value and significance within the economic structure of the legitimate art market…
no less than pretty much completely on his own terms at every step of the way.

and though it would take so much more time and space than just a blog to really do justice to the significance of his life and work,
there are a few things I wanted to at least share from my own perspective now,
as a friend, as an artist, and as someone who continues to be influenced by and benefit from some of Keith’s contributions:

Keith was the first person who encouraged me to create product,
and told me that if I printed t-shirts and stickers and we could sell them in his brand new “Pop Shop” in Soho.
I then printed my first “Bat Haze” t-shirts and stickers in 1984, which we sold there throughout the 80’s…
Not only was that completely pivotal for me in so many ways,
but Keith was really the first of our generation who truly understood and embraced,
like Warhol before him, the symbiotic relationship between art and product this way :
artist as icon + recognizable style = a fluid marketable identity.
He was so far ahead of the curve of how we all eventually learned to brand ourselves via distributable product + merchandise,
so far ahead of the curve of what is now ingrained in every emerging modern artist’s quest for recognition and market value.
To his credit, he was also never afraid of potentially undermining his value to the elite high art world
by keeping true to the populist notion of low cost / high access art for the masses…
so often putting his money where his mouth was by dedicating so much time and work for free to many worldwide charities and communities.
I have always felt that beyond the scope of his actual body of work, perhaps Keith’s greatest contributions were more about challenging
these barriers between art, commerce and popular culture, and that he deserves more credit than people realize
for paving the way for the modern “artist identity based product” that now saturates the market.

There have been many times along the way since Keith passed that I reflect with mixed feelings on how sorry I am
that he didn’t live to see the way the art, design and product worlds exploded internationally along with hip hop from the 90’s to now…
knowing how excited he would have been about participating in it, also imaging his indelible stamp on “streetwear” as we now know it.
I remember Keith’s excitement when he was opening the pop shop in Tokyo,
and his frustration at having to close it down shortly after because the bootlegging got just so out of control so fast…
I also remember walking down the street in Tokyo in the early 90’s taking it all in,
being sorry I could no longer compare notes and share my successes and struggles there with him too.

I also remember stopping by Keith’s studio one day coming home from class at the School of Visual Arts -
which he had dropped out of the year before I enrolled - and telling him how psyched about my class on “corporate identity” I was…
He looked at me like I was totally crazy, since that world seemed to symbolize everything our movement was trying to stand against at the time.
and though I was able to share the early successes of creating album cover art and starting my design studio with him,
I always felt he never really got to see how the musicians and artists of our generation actually
wrestled the essence of corporate identity back from the establishment in the 90’s…
utilizing the existing models to empower and redefine ourselves in our own marketplace.
again, it was something he would have really been excited about, and I can only imagine his continued contributions over the years.

and for reasons I almost hesitate to put into words now,
I find myself influenced even more by the spirit and power of his work these days than ever.
After years of focusing primarily on the always so planned out worlds of design and production,
I am most drawn again to the quality and immediacy of the kind of line art that can only come from the human hand,
where beauty and emotion is held in a single gesture, and where, like the purest outline of a great graffiti masterpiece or throw up,
there is no substitute for the speed and confidence of total commitment to the moment.
That is Keith’s work all day long, with a personal style and vocabulary that will stand the endless test of time…
and it’s a beautiful thing.

Having buried and honored the passing of many good friends and major influences over the years,
I have always been conscious of the fact that, at least as an artist, in the end,
it often remains very much about what you left behind and the paths you chose along the way.
I well remember the clarity and confidence with which Keith first told me that he had been diagnosed HIV+,
being sure to tell his friends face to face first before going very public with it,
as he planned to embrace his last days as fully, positively and productively as he could,
also being as much a force for change and awareness of what was still a relatively new disease as possible.
In a way, I saw that this awareness of his own mortality gave him a great sense of
peace and accomplishment within his brief and limited journey through all of our lives…
and I guess we should all be so lucky as to depart with the sense of fulfillment that I believe Keith truly felt in the end.

so with all these thoughts and sentiments,
I want to honor the rare and visionary spirit that Keith was, celebrate the life and work of a great friend,
and share a few of the gems from my collection of works and presents from him throughout the golden years of the 80’s…

enjoy:

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One of Keith’s first publications, I believe based on the work from his drawing show at White Columns Gallery in 1980.
These really give a taste of the initial development of his “radiant” dog, baby, and human forms :

This was the first Japanese magazine I ever saw here in NY, I believe in 1981.
( They also produced a limited edition Levi’s style linen jacket with the cover art printed on the back,
which I have archived somewhere but just couldn’t manage to find and dig out in time for this post ) :

Published in 1982 by his art dealer and gallery, Tony Shafrazzi, this book offered one of the first real windows into both Kieth’s work and world :

It’s almost hard to recognize without all the current disney neon backgrounds, but this was as big as it got in times square back in the day :

This is one of 10 pieces he gave to friends for X-mas that year, and I believe I am one of the few,
if not the only one, who didn’t sell their’s during many of our leaner years in the late ‘80s.
It is painted with enamel paint on a 12’x 12"x 3” heat baked enamel coated metal box.
The photos really don’t do this piece justice, and yes, I really do need to properly treat the rust on the back one of these days soon too :

Published in in 1984, “Art In Transit” contains the most comprehensive documentation of Keith’s subway station chalk drawings :

Back then the penalty for getting caught bombing was still pretty much just a slap on the wrist…
( not the case at all anymore in post 9/11 NYC. ) :

Zephyr and SE-3 up in the mix…Astor Place Station on the IRT 6 line :

This is the invite to the second anniversary of Keith’s annual “party of life” in 1985,
which he held for many years at the old Palladium on 14th St. I bet the puzzle would look really dope put together and framed too :

This is a reproduction of a handmade book he created as a birthday present for Francesco Clemente’s daughter Nina in 1988,
which was later published by Prestel in 1994 :

I also reproduced a limited edition of this artwork in 2000 on T-shirts and Sweatshirts exclusively for Ships in Japan,
with permission from The Keith Haring Foundation….( Thanks, Julia. )

One of my favorite signed pieces, this is the inside cover of a calendar from 1988.
Keith did countless installations all over the world and this photo really gives such a great sense of his work on interior spaces :

Finally, a piece that kind of sums up a lot of what I tried to put into context at this point in time, with a good story behind it too :

In 1988, I happened to be in LA working on a project with Vision Street Wear
at the same time Keith was also having the opening of a major show at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills.
The after party for the show was at Timothy Leary’s house up in the hills on Mulholland Drive, where we all rolled to after the show…
Not only was the party exactly how I might have imagined it - complete with Barbara Leary passing out hash brownies on platters -
but I remember Dr. Leary showing and explaining something to us all on a computer screen that was just way too over my head at the time…
Looking back now, I think it was actually a very early glimpse into the invention of the internet, way before it seemed tangible at all.
Anyway, it was a great party, an honor to meet Timothy Leary on these terms too,
and Keith presented me with this inscribed copy of Dr. Leary’s autobiography shortly after we got back to NY :

This inscription in part reflects many conversations we had about how we both felt
that psychedelic drug use had profoundly opened up our “vision” as artists…
plus, I believe, it was also Keith’s way of projecting his understanding of the progression of great things to come, not only for myself,
but in the radical paradigm shifts that would soon continue to redefine the street level marriages of art, design, fashion and pop culture…
part of an endless timeline in which Keith’s life and work will continue to hold it’s own true meaning, place and value.

Eric / Haze

5/11/2008

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Tuesday March 13, 2012

You have to be deaf and blind to live in New York and not to know about Jeremy Lin by now,
and after seeing him torch Kobe head to head in a last minute shoot out a few weeks ago,
I started understanding it was much more than just another media darling cinderella story…
not only has he come out of nowhere to become the kind of inspirational figure that transcends sport and geography,
but by now he has already put up truly mind blowing stats that will shine in the light of history forever.

Up close and personal it was clear,
not only does dude have the heart and swagger it takes to make it at the highest level of the game,
but he is simply out working and out resulting his opponents in all phases of his position too.
ok, so inevitably not every night will continue to be his night as it has been on this amazing first roll, but believe the hype ;
Lin answered the challenge again yesterday,
putting up 28 points and 14 assists while quarterbacking a win over the reigning champ Mavericks at home,
punctuated by a step up all net three in the face of the league’s best three point shooter Nowitzki,
removing any lingering doubt about his authenticity to the roar of a re-invigorated Madison Square Garden…
the same mecca of New York hoops that I grew up watching Earl, Clyde, Willis and eventual senator Bradley set the city on fire.

Wherever basketball takes it’s unlikely but fitting newly minted superstar Jeremy Lin,
The Knicks, Madison Square Garden and New York City owe him a spiritual debt that will hopefully be repaid with a ring one day,
my hands are still stinging from clapping so long and hard, and it was a memorable afternoon at MSG for this NY sports fan.

#17, another great New York success story, and then some…

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Monday February 20, 2012

Based on three graphic designs and one hand drawn star pattern,
they have filled out the collection to include these t’s, sweats, outwear, caps and accessories :

More pics and additional items can also be found here at www.zozotown.com

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Wednesday February 15, 2012

An additional run of 250 pieces featuring a second color way box have also been released through the Klout perks program :

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Tuesday February 7, 2012

The book always presents a nice window into the premier products and collaborations of each past year,
and it’s amazing how much great work is being done out there once you see it all bound together like this.
I also really like the spirit and message behind the forward he wrote for this year’s edition,
which effectively captures where we are now entering yet another exciting period of design culture.

Here’s a peep at the text below and the book is definitely worth adding to your collection, if it’s not already gone….

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Tuesday January 31, 2012

I produced this edition with Modern Multiples, who have been in the print game for decades,
working with a long list of artists that includes the stunning new museum quality works by Saber, Chaz and Retna.
They have a policy of working hands on in the studio alongside the artists they support,
and I was blessed with the opportunity to roll through and knock these pieces out while I was in Los Angeles.

We produced a very small run which included a few different color ways,
and the following 10 pieces are now being offered exclusively through Known Gallery :

Silver on Black: 5 of 10
/ Steel on Silver: 5 of 20
54.25″ x 42″ / Hand-pulled serigraph on Coventry Rag Vellum 320 gm/wt

More info, pics and ordering instructions can be found online at www.knowngallerystore.com

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Friday January 27, 2012

This is the third installment of the series that has been art directed by my man Dust La Rock,
who - along with A-Trak, Nick Catchdubs, Dave 1 and recent addition Ben Jacobs - form the core of the Brooklyn based record label.


The Fools Gold store is located @ 536 Metropolitan Ave in Williamsburg, the event will run from 7:00 - 9:00 PM,
and peep the FG website for more background info and pics here.

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Wednesday January 25, 2012

Besides simply showing off many of Rime’s fresh styles,
it’s good to see this kind of work actually being painted for the final product,
there is a depth to some of these decks that you could just not simulate with drawing or computer graphics.

I’m also happy to see some legitimate dudes carrying the torch a little for Zoo York again.
Regardless of it’s existence as a brand or a business, it’s part of a deep and true New York legacy,
one that is also aligned with parts of my history coming up in the ‘70s and ‘80s…

Joe also keeps it real in a personal way in the video for the project, which you can peep here, and that’s what’s up.

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Wednesday January 18, 2012

When Workhorse first contacted me about doing a piece in the underground tunnel,
I had been starting to work with “1-Shot” paint for the first time,
and thought it was a perfect place and opportunity to try really wilding out with it…
since it is generally way too toxic and fumes unfriendly to do too much of anywhere else.

It was a lot of fun, and the speed at which the “1-Shot” drips into itself looks great in the time lapse video they shot too.
Here’s a couple of the stills they printed in the book, and advance copies are now available for pre-order here.

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Friday January 13, 2012

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Monday January 9, 2012

Here are proper studio pics of the full set now that I have them,
more background info on the project can be found here,
and stay tuned for a companion video and second color way version of the box to drop later this month too…

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Tuesday January 3, 2012

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Wednesday December 14, 2011

First up on Friday night was “The Underbelly Project” exhibition and book signing.
Big time congratulations to Workhorse, PAC and the producers of this show, it came together spectacularly.
The show itself was truly museum quality and extremely well received, the book came out great too.
Thanks for welcoming me to participate in both, more pics and coverage can be seen here : The Underbelly Project @ Art Basel

Next night was a signing for my man Tristan Eaton’s “3D Book” project.
The book itself is dope and Tristan always keeps it moving in a number of directions with his art, design studio and brand Thunderdog.
Had fun with a bunch of other great artists at the signing, and - proof that you can still teach an old dog new tricks -
did my first actual “3D tag” using a red and blue sharpie at the same time after biting this technique from Tristan mid-signing :
Unfortunately I only got this poor quality pic of it, and more coverage and pics from the event can be seen here : 3D Book Signing @ Art Basel

Last up but not least, I was happy to end the night with NY and 12oz fam at Chino and Sacha Jenkins “World Piece Book” signing event.
Spent more time hanging out than anything here, catching up with Erni after a few decades, rapping about old New York with Skid DMS,
and connecting a few other dots before sparking up in the back room with the crew then out…
look for Chino’s own post on 12oz for a full recap soon too.

Good times.

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Tuesday December 13, 2011

I also wrote the forward and supplied some archival subway tunnel images for the book,
which is published by Rizzoli and edited by John and Jiae of Theme Magazine.
Here is the official press release and invite :

After a full year underground, The Underbelly Project is resurfacing this December in Miami during Art Basel.
Presented in its own pop up gallery from 30 November – 5 December,
the show will feature original artwork from 35 of the 103 international artists that participated in the hidden subway project.
This exhibition will highlight the essence of the abandoned New York City station known as the Underbelly.

Workhorse has stated: “The New York Underbelly was an important chapter for us, but the story hadn’t been comprehensively told.
The Underbelly Miami show gives us a chance to present the broad scope of documentation ;
Videos, photos, time-lapses and first hand accounts.
The project is about more than just artwork.  This show gives us a chance to show the people and the environment behind the artwork“
PAC has stated: “While the experience each artist had in their expedition underground can never be captured,
it is my hope that this show will highlight some of the trials and tribulations
associated with urban art taking place in the remote corners of our cities.
Too often the practice of making art in unconventional venues remains shrouded in mystery and I hope this exhibition
will shine a faint light on those artists who risk their safety to find alternative ways to create and be a part of the cities they live in.”

Included in the show are street, graffiti and fine artists alike. The full line-up of artists include:
Faile, Dabs & Myla, TrustoCorp, Aiko, Rone, Revok, Ron English, Jeff Soto, Mark Jenkins, Anthony Lister, Logan Hicks, Lucy McLauchlan,
M-City, Kid Zoom, Eric Haze, Saber, Meggs, Jim & Tina Darling,The London Police, Sheone, Skewville, Jeff Stark, Jordan Seiler, Jason Eppink
and I AM, Dan Witz, Specter, Ripo, MoMo, Remi/Rough, Stormie Mills, Swoon, Know Hope, Skullphone, L’Atlas, Roa, Surge, Gaia,
Michael De Feo, Joe Iurato, Love Me, Adam 5100 Feibelman, and Chris Stain.

Fashioned to resemble the abandoned station four stories beneath the bustle of New York City,
the exhibit will attempt to capture the experience of artists’ that were invited leave their creative mark four stories beneath the city streets.
The show will feature video footage of artists at work, still documentation, as well as recorded sounds heard in the tunnel.

Exclusively at The Underbelly Show,
the unreleased We Own the Night: The Art of The Underbelly Project book,
will be available as a limited edition collectors boxed set before the public release in February.
This boxed set will include a hard cover book along with 9 unreleased photos packaged in a hand crafted oak box
engraved with the names of each artist that contributed to the project.
Before the general viewing there will also be a book signing featuring many of the aforementioned artists.

The gallery is located at 78 NW 25th St. in the Wynwood District

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Wednesday November 23, 2011

The holiday capsule includes 3 t-shirt graphics, a snapback cap and a stand alone skateboard deck…
for more info, different color ways and online orders, peep their website at :

www.hufworldwide.com

plus the look book that 12oz contributor Brian Kelly and I shot a few pics for recently too :

huf-holiday-2011-collection-huf-x-haze-lookbook

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Tuesday November 15, 2011

Returning to Known for my second full blown exhibition in their main gallery,
I was happy to have pushed myself to create enough work to effectively fill the 3000+ sq. ft. space,
which I knew from experience eats up work fast, especially with over 20 ft. tall ceilings.

Here are pics of the full installation, sequenced as close as possible to how I intended the work to be viewed ;
many thanks and much love to the Known Gallery team and family for all their continued support,
as well as all the friends and supporters who represented for the show, both in person and online.
The show will also remain up through next Saturday, Oct. 8th for anyone who may still be in the area.

pics by Carlos Gonzales to follow now,
and here are links to some of the featured exhibition coverage too :

www.huffingtonpost.com

www.complex.com

www.arrestedmotion.com

www.hypebeast.com

www.slamxhype.com

www.highsnobiety.com

www.thehundreds.com

www.graffuturism.com

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Monday October 3, 2011

We just cut together this quick trailer to drop now before the show,
and will be putting together a long form piece to include the install and opening after all is said and done too :

Eric Haze “New Mathematics”  Known Gallery from World Wide Rev. on Vimeo.

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Wednesday September 14, 2011

The show opens on Saturday, Sept. 17th and runs through Oct. 8th.
I will be showing a completely new body of work,
including 35 new paintings, along with 15 new drawings,
all of which I have produced over the last six months specifically for this show…

for press release and more info, check out :

http://www.knowngallery.com/exhibitions/upcoming

and more soon from LA….

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Tuesday September 6, 2011

Believe the hype ;
reminiscent of Japan in the early 90’s,
there is a genuine revolution of style, product and youth culture in full effect in China…
and yes, business is definitely booming there too.

After 6 days on the ground, half of them working,
the other half getting to know the city and building relationships over dinner and drinks,
I left with a great sense of promise for the future there…

Thanks to the great support and hard work of Jimmy Au and Red Agency,
Tim and Rose from the Kappa / C19 team, Himm and Kiki from the Urban Family,
G-Ming from Mess / Beijing, and a host of other people involved in our project,
we succcessfully launched the C-19 Brand and the first of four pop up shops scheduled for release this year.

Here are some pics from the launch event and following media day,
next stop Shanghai….

Event :

Media Day :

Beijing Fam :

Thanks for everything !

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Monday August 8, 2011

Here’s a pic of the unstretched canvas before it shipped out,
and more flicks to follow soon :

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Wednesday July 27, 2011

Here are the designs in black and white as I created them,
plus some recent press we did for the project with a magazine called “Hidden Champion”,
which shows a few of the color ways and poster too :

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Tuesday July 12, 2011

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Monday June 13, 2011

When I first set out to formally study graphic design in the pre-macintosh era,
the existing model was a whole different science of laying things out by hand mechanically.
Using a t-square, rubber cement and hand cut elements, I learned the art of cut and paste,
including the fundamentals of using a grid system grid in editorial design.

Looking to the Bauhaus, De Stijl and Swiss design for some of my earliest inspiration,
these are a few of the typographic excersizes that made it into my portfolio in 1984.
Unfortunately I have no idea what happened to the original pieces,
but I thought these end result color copies were still worth a look at the better part of 30 years later :

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Thursday June 9, 2011

The Gallery is the brainchild of my old friend and partner in crime Neils “Shoe” Muelman.
Neils has always been good with words, both design wise and conceptually,
and he shares some of his current sentiments with us in the following announcement :

A number of my favorite lettering style masters are representing for this exhibition,
so I expect a lot of great type based work to emerge from it….
the artwork will also be available for purchase online at : http://www.unrulygallery.com

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©Haze & 12ozProphet - Thursday May 26, 2011