Contact: kevinhaas.contact.obfuscate@.obfuscategmail.obfuscate.com
Instagram: @printmakingkev
Bio
Kevin Haas, born in St. Louis, MO, and based in the Inland Northwest, is a contemporary artist who works in printmaking, drawing, and design. He is known for his prints in muted colors and coarse halftones, fragmented text phrases, and large print installations. Haas's ongoing work explores themes of creative effort and permanence amid uncertainty and anxiety. He earned his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA from Indiana University where he studied printmaking and digital media. Kevin Haas has exhibited extensively, with notable shows at Terrain Gallery in Spokane, WA; Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane, WA; Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, OR; Deluge Contemporary Art in Victoria, BC; Blue Galleries at Boise State University in Boise, ID; and The Forsberg Art Gallery in Longview, WA. His work has also been recognized through participation in prestigious artist residencies, including those at Anderson Ranch Art Center, The Jentel Foundation, Open Studio in Toronto, and the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. Since 2000 he has taught courses on printmaking, design, and book arts at Washington State University, where he coordinates the printmaking studios and the Bookforms Library.
Statement
My current work explores the tensions, affinities, and ambiguities between drawing, text, abstraction, and print media. It lingers over over issues of anxiety, existential dilemmas, and humorous antagonism. Images from the ordinary, the built environment, the news, and other sources, intermingle with frustrated abstractions and terse phrases. Central to my work are questions about creative effort, permanence, and the struggle to communicate.
Links
Hello, Print Friend: Episode 158
Dedicated to wasting time with Kevin Haas
