My brother has been sending me photos of City Gardens, a venue in southern New Jersey where we witnessed all manner of punk/hardcore/ska bands in the late 80s/early 90s. Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Leeway, NY Citizens…all of the photos are essentially a scrum of unrelenting energy, almost violent save for the few smiling faces in the crowd. Dan Witz faithfully captures a flash of these moments – in oils –  in his series “Mosh Pits”, where humanity crushes together into a fluid and dynamic expulsion of energy with nowhere to go.