Louis Buhl & Co. is pleased to present Electric City, our first collaboration with artist Eric Haze, releasing on September 28th, 2023. Born and bred in New York City, Haze has been influential in the worlds of graffiti, graphic design and contemporary art for over four decades. Working within the realm of figuration, Haze's 'Night Moves' series, executed in his signature gray-scale color palette to reflect an interest in architecture and design, honors the environment and people that have shaped the artist's identity, ultimately memorializing a small slice of collective consciousness through impressions of personal experience.
Significantly, Electric City is the first figurative print edition that Haze has produced. By distancing himself from a realist approach to his source, Haze succeeds in pushing recognizable urban features, such as bright lights, puddles and crowds of pedestrians, into a blur of abstraction. The reductionist work nostalgically captures a bygone era of New York, presenting the city not as it is today, but as Haze remembers it; boxy cars and vintage signage serve as pronounced time markers, uniquely transporting viewers to a preserved period in time. Exemplified in Electric City, Haze's stylistic approach to his compositions works as an agent in affecting nostalgia, memory and reflection. He distills scenes down to their most basic visual indicators to allude to a dreamlike state. Imaginative, fragmented and oftentimes nonsensical, these qualities of the dreamplace are reflected in the soft edges of his forms, or the occasional sighting of an unfinished brushstroke. In working to capture fleeting sentiments of his own recollection, Haze creates a greater space for the viewer to draw their own associations to the scene, fostering a collective consciousness that transcends the painting's pointed origin.
"One of the most important things to me about painting is to feel a personal connection and passion for the subject, whether it's a landscape or a person. And one of the things that was so obvious to me at the beginning of this arc, of this work, was that nothing captured my imagination more than New York City. " — Eric Haze
Eric Haze — Electric City
8-color hand-pulled screenprint on Somerset Satin White 300gsm. Deckled, numbered, and signed by the artist.
25.5h x 40w inches
Edition of 35
$350.00
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