KRIS HAAS

Across The Breath of Memory, Tactile Commodity, and Disjointed Reality, Kris Haas traces a powerful and intimate arc of material presence, emotional excavation, and the reconstruction of inner landscapes. The Breath of Memory offers the quietest entry point—delicate, atmospheric compositions where texture becomes breath and memory rises like soft light through wax, cloth, and muted pigment. These works meditate on what lingers, what dissolves, and what returns unannounced. In contrast, Tactile Commodity grounds itself in the physicality of experience: burlap, tobacco cloth, plaster, and paint collide in layered, sculptural surfaces that speak to the tension between fragility and resilience, the handmade and the worn, the precious and the discarded. Each piece becomes a relic of emotional weight, revealing truth through material contradiction. Disjointed Reality, meanwhile, confronts the mind’s architecture of fragmentation—bold collage forms, intersecting lines, and fractured grids echoing the process of rebuilding identity after rupture. Together, these three series articulate a continuum of human experience: the soft breath of recollection, the tactile substance of lived emotion, and the fractured clarity of reconstructing a self. Through them, Haas creates a visual language that is both deeply personal and universally resonant, offering viewers a place to encounter their own histories, thresholds, and transformations.