Rubicon Sun

"Rubicon Sun" is the name of the upcoming gallery show featuring Doze Green & David Ellis. Presented by Upper Playground in association with FIFTY24SF Gallery, this show will explore the limits of our senses and challenge the viewer to open his mind to comprehend the world at its present, and to contemplate its future in a time of flux at an inevitable and critical crossroads.

Press Release
“For Rubicon Sun, David Ellis and Doze Green present an exhibition they have been training for their entire lives. It’s an installation combining every discipline and material imaginable that weaves drawing, painting, sculpture, music, kinetic movement, sound, light, projection and film. It’s a memorial to a magic porthole filled with trumpets whose signal is now jammed, it’s a glimpse at the last days of the worst four letter word in our vocabulary, and a nod towards a future on the other side of the river that lays down it’s sword and shield and looks again to the sun for wisdom.”

Raised in North Carolina, David Ellis’ work explores music and sound through improvised live painting sessions he calls “motion painting” as well as through kinetic installation. He has exhibited at contemporary art museums and galleries both nationally and internationally.

New York City-native, Doze Green has roots firmly planted in the soil of street culture as a graffiti legend--the “King of Characters”--and as an original member of the Rock Steady Crew. His career in art began in 1974 when he started painting on the streets of NYC and has since seen his work included in many public and private collections across the world.
... by Tidmore C. Jones

What is Rubicon?

What is Rubicon?

The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" has survived to refer to any people committing themselves irrevocably to a risky and revolutionary course of action – similar to the current phrase "passing the point of no return"... wikipedia.org