Dan Witz

About

I look at the world and I see a million things I want to paint every day but I keep coming back to light as a subject. I don't know exactly why. It would probably be pretentious if I tried to describe it. I do know that paintings can do certain things that nothing else can. One thing oil paint on canvas can do can do is make light seem real. Things glow. They're warm and they're welcoming, I think there's a primal attraction to that. In Western painting, light gives spiritual significance. The Old Master technique is all about producing light and evoking whatever phenomenon of light they want.

Dan Witz was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1957. He received his BFA from Cooper Union in New York in 1980. Since moving to New York's East Village in 1978, Witz has been an independent artistic voice in Lower Manhattan.