Form & Void is the creative hub of the artist and designer known professionally as DASH and on occasion DASHEROCKWELL. He is currently living and working in Dubai.

He is distinguished as one of New York’s premier Graffiti stylists and has expanded into the Contemporary space. He is recognized for large scale Minimalist paintings often created with drafting tools and industrial ink.

His studio practice is driven by the psychology of “perception and intent”, and the dichotomy of opposing principles. He balances various bodies of work, producing series contextualized by the intersections in his trajectory from artistic vandal, to creative professional, and ultimately contemporary painter.

A connoisseur of the complex relationship between written language and the illustrated word, Dash has long examined how visual messages are imposed on, positioned in, and experienced in the built environment. Thus, much of his work is characterized by an interest in spatial analysis, linear exploration and the sensibility of architectural order.

Visually, he employs a reductive formalism that articulates the coordinate plane through proportion, frequency, and contrast. His relocation to the desert has introduced a chromatic shift into his practice, where amber, rust, and gold temper a palette first calibrated in the dark tunnels and cool fluorescence of the New York underground. The  work now emits varying temperatures, sometimes within a single structure.

Dash’s process is both manual and mechanical. Some pieces are completely concrete, while others are organic and radiate the luminous quality that Baroque glazes create over a varnished grisaille.

His work, meditative and transformative, functions as a modern Lingua Franca and conveys the urban vernacular with an imbued thereness that engages one’s sense of self, place and time.