Andrew Dazz

My artistic name is Andrew Dazz. Living and studying in the metropolitan area of New York City played an important role in shaping my beliefs and the way in which I live in the World. I first burst into the New York artistic scene in 1988 with my Third Wave Images, a book of poetry. The book is startling in visions and stark landscape. A media-hyper society blinded by flashes of bleak cynicism, expressed by high-tech verses and rhythms. Inspired by the book in 1990 I created nine rock music videos with the assistance of local rock bands. A night club act opened at The Cache Night Club in West New York. where the musicians were able to sing and act live. releasing the music videos in 1991. I followed with a New Age play, entitled In Between Zones. This melodramatic comedy paced by laugher and pain. It sports a peculiar cast of characters colliding with one another between the worlds of the familiar and the bizarre.

I visited a friend in California where I decided to stay. In 1993 I produced and directed the third incarnation of In Between Zones at the New Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Sometime In 1995 I went on to write and direct a TV Show for City Vision Television. The show, Neurotic Artists of San Francisco. The show was a venue to find and developed local artists. In 1998 with the support of the TV studio and the collective of artists, Era-2-Visions, the nonprofit I lead embarked in the most challenging project; The filming of our first film. The Maids by Jean Genet, an existentialist French writer, known as a thief, homosexual and the writer of literature of blasphemy. The play is loosely inspired by the Papin sisters, who murdered their employer, Rene Lancelin. When 1999 rolled around I was ready to find inspiration back at the Big Apple. At the beginning of the Millenium and for several years after I use my know how to make classes exiting for the students. I worked on some smaller projects with educational purposes. I had been working on an anthology of fiction for several years and in 2011 Whips & Lips Cafe hit the bookstores. Whips & Lips is a delicious taste of the forbidden outrageous of the New York City underground. It follows the experiences of five ravishing, yet enigmatic women, who reveal a bohemian existence that lives for the moment and is slave to vices, who present a compelling saga that redefines the boundaries forced upon them.

Presently, I have finished writing my first book in Spanish. El Jardin de Mis Delicias (The Garden of My Earthly Delights). This artistic quest exposes enticing imagery accompanied by intense romantic-erotic poetry. An anthology of fiction with a very tasty Hispanic flavor. It also displays strong LGBT sentiments. I expect the book to be out on January 2023.