Kevin Haas:
Accumulation/Dissipation

Exhibition Statement

The work of Kevin Haas depicts commercial landscapes found near highways and interstates that surround and interconnect our cities. His prints address the ubiquity and displacement of these environments which fill an increasing part of our everyday landscape but often remain overlooked. He is compelled by his own tenuous complicity with these places and their seemingly infinite potential for sprawl. His series of prints titled Inventory, focus on the multiplicity of things that exist within built environments, their foreignness, and disconnection from our everyday lives.

Haas primarily works with printmaking parallels, and conflicts with his subject matter. It allows him to emphasize the role technology plays in our lives, and mimic the production that occurs at many of the places he depicts. Just as prints have existences, so do the places and objects he chooses to document, which are typically mass produced and pervasive. The contradiction between the handmade, and the industrialized environment he depicts, is an enduring conundrum for him.

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