Artist Statement I document urban and suburban landscapes to explore my experiences of, and relationship to, the everyday built environment. Most recently I have been focusing on locations just off major interstates, and their the seemingly infinite potential for sprawl. When confronted with places like these, I am aware of my own tenuous complicity with them, and the repetitive displacement they create through their ubiquity. The prints I have been creating of this commercial sprawl, have been a way for me to address these issues as well as deal with a built environment that fills an increasing part of our everyday landscape, but often remains overlooked.
Bio Kevin Haas earned his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Indiana University where he studied printmaking and digital media. Since 1995 his work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the US and in Canada. He has been included in exhibits at Critical Line Gallery in Tacoma, the Jundt Museum in Spokane, and Davidson Gallery in Seattle. He is a recipient of both the Artist Trust Fellowship and GAP grants. In 2006 he chaired the College Art Association panel titled ‘Convergent Theories: Printmaking, Photography and Digital Media” focusing on the interrelationships between these media. Kevin is currently Associate Professor at Washington State University and coordinator of the Printmaking Area.
Kevin Haas
5072 Fine Arts Center
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164
Seattle, WA
Washington
North America
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