Dave Ortiz

Growing up in East New York in the 70s and 80s Ortiz was swept up in the graffiti zeitgeist but eventually decided to turn to fine art and painting. He attended and graduated from the Fine Arts School at FIT in New York City. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at McCaig-Wells Gallery (NYC), Sensei Gallery (NYC), White Gallery (NYC), Joseph Gross Gallery and ArtNowNY (NYC), 2222 Jefferson (St. Louis, MO), Our/ Berlin (Berlin, Germany) et al.
Dave Ortiz work is in many private collections.
As an entrepreneur Dave has collaborated with Nike, Adidas, Vans, Converse Project Red, and G-Shock, among others for his labels Daves Quality Meat, DQM, Dave’s Wearhouse, and Another Whip.

Influenced by his Hispanic heritage, Classical sculpture and Impressionistic works he viewed growing up in New York City museums, Ortiz found himself developing a visual shorthand that unites the dramatically opposed worlds of street art and fine art. His figurative work is equally influenced by Matisse as cartoon imagery--where the attention-grabbing colors and heavy outlining typically associated to graffiti writing is combined with references to Greek antiquity in the missing limbs or broken bodies of his characters. The mix of mediums ...

Streets and Alleys of New York City.
BA in Fine Arts at FIT | SUNY, New York City

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 "Law Journals III " - Our|Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2015 "Law Journals" - Joseph Gross Gallery, New York, NY
2013 "20 Year Retrospective 1993-2013" - ArtNow, New York, NY
2000 "I live here BROOKLYN" - McCaig Wells Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

GROUP SHOWS | ART FAIRS | AUCTIONS
2015 "Trophy Art" - Azart Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Robert Wilson’s “Watermill Summer Benefit and Auction” | Watermill, NY
2015 "Select Art Fair" | Chelsea, New York, NY
2015 "Color Blocks" | Gowanus Lab, Brooklyn, NY
2015 "Influenced by Keith Haring - Law Journals II" | 2222 Jefferson, Saint Louis, MO
2014 "War Of Art" | Safari Gallery, West Broadway, New York, NY
2014 "Stir Crazy" | Sensei Gallery, Grand Street, New York, NY
2014 "Piece" | 116 Gallery, Suffolk Street, New York, NY
2013 "The Future is Now" | Highline Loft, New York, NY
2013 "Rise Above" | Art Auction to benefit the Harold Hunter Foundation, ArtNow, New York, NY
2012 "Bring Back The Boardwalk" | Hurricane Sandy Fundraiser and Art Auction, Trais Gallery, New York, NY

RESIDENCIES
2015 Spring | Gowanus Print Lab - Artist in Residency| Brooklyn, New York
Painting, printmaking, mixed media