Born in Portland, Oregon in 1961, Kris Haas is a self-taught visual artist whose practice is rooted in the language of abstraction. For Haas, abstraction is not a departure from reality but an entry point into deeper truths—where gesture, material, and texture communicate what words cannot. Guided by instinct and physical presence, her paintings emerge through layering, disruption, and reassembly, revealing the unstable yet profoundly human terrain of memory and perception.

Her series unfold as distinct yet interwoven explorations of abstraction’s possibilities. Disjointed Reality transforms collage painting into fractured, rhythmic architectures of form, echoing the challenge of coherence in a fractured world. Displaced Memories engages abstraction as a vessel for the mutable nature of recollection—layered surfaces that resist permanence while carrying emotional resonance. In Of & Being and Intervals of Being, abstraction becomes an act of becoming itself, with gestural fields and intuitive marks evoking states of consciousness, intimacy, and interior life. Tactile Commodity expands this vocabulary into material contradiction, where burlap, cloth, sand, and paint collide, heightening abstraction’s ability to hold both fragility and raw physicality.

Haas’s art is less about representation than about presence—the act of creating as excavation and revelation. Her works have been commissioned for high-profile spaces in Washington, D.C., featured in national television series, and collected in private and corporate settings. Through abstraction, she offers viewers not resolution but an invitation: to dwell within ambiguity, to witness rupture, and to discover beauty and resilience in the layered, unfinished surfaces of being.

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Welcome to my online gallery. Here you will find all works created by me and below an ‘About’ page that tells you a little more about me, my life and what is the passion behind what I do to create all these amazing works of art.

When you are buying a piece of art from me, whether it is a painting, drawing or collage, you are buying a piece of my life. A piece of my history, her story. A piece of my emotions, my feelings, my experiences of what I go through. As a survivor of a Traumatic Brain Injury (I have had four concussions) my life did an abrupt halt and so I had to listen. Listen to the changes and move with them instead of always fighting against them. Here you see my joy, my pain, my liveliness, my sorrow, my beauty, my determination, my will power, my darkness and yes my lightness. It is an honest life. A life well lived and despite loosing my life I had, my house, my home, my job and even being homeless for a while, I wouldn’t take it back for anything in the world because it has brought me here, to you. The you who is reading this and I welcome you into my world of creativity and I look forward to sending you one of my original works of art!!